Part 16: Mobile Equipment

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Part 16
Part 16 Mobile Equipment (Heavy Equipment)
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Mobile equipment A wheeled or tracked vehicle
which is engine or motor powered, together with
attached or towed equipment, but not a vehicle
operated on fixed rails or tracks.
Section 16.21(1) Operators of mobile equipment
must be protected against falling, flying or
intruding objects or material by means of
suitable cabs, screens, grills, shields,
deflectors, guards or structures.
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Application 16.2 This Part applies to
mobile equipment used by or around
workers. Note Mobile equipment required to
meet the requirements of the Motor Vehicle Act or
the Industrial Transportation Act is subject to
this Regulation for matters not specifically
governed by those Acts and the regulations made
under them.
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Jurisdiction

• Federal
• Motor Vehicles
• Industrial Transportation

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Standards/Acts Manufacturer ANSI American
National Standards Institute ASME American
Society of Mechanical Engineering CSA Canadian
Standards Association SAE Society of Automotive
Engineers NFPA National Fire Protection
Association WCB - G600 Workers Compensation
Board MVA Motor Vehicles Act
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Part 16 Layout

• General Requirements
• Guards
• Seat and Rider Restrictions
• Seat Belts
• Operating Requirements
• Tire Servicing
• All Terrain Vehicles

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General Requirements

• 16.3 Operation and Maintenance
• Specific requirement for mobile equipment in safe
  operating condition
• Identify Unsafe Equipment
• Service records which affect safe performance
  reasonably available to operator

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General Requirements

• 16.3 Operation and Maintenance
• Operate maintain and repair according to
  manufacturers instructions
• If no manufacturers instructions, operation,
  inspection, repair and maintenance in accordance
  with good engineering practice
• Off road machines to be safe for the intended
  use.

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General Requirements

• 16.4 Competency - instruction
• Operator must demonstrate competency to a
  qualified supervisor or instructor prior to
  operation of equipment
• Air brake (certificate)
• Familiar with instructions
• Authorized
• Trainee exemption
• instruction
• air brake certificate

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General Requirements

• 16.5 Operator Responsibility
• safely
• full control
• comply with laws
• 16.6 Supervisor nor worker permitted to
  operate equipment which could create an
  undue hazard or is in violation of the
  regulations.

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General Requirements

• 16.7 Design, Fabrication, Use, Inspection
  and Maintenance Standards
• lift truck operator training
• 16.8 Back Up Alarm
• 16.9 Lights
• 16.10 Rear view mirror
• 16.11 Safety glass
• 16.12 Maintain clear vision

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General Requirements

• 16.13 Brakes
• three systems, service, emergency, park
• Older equipment to meet standards in place at the
  time of manufacture

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Brakes

• Parking brake must be operable by a seated
  operator

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16.14 Supplementary Steering

• without engine power cant steer to safe stop
• capable of over 12.5 mph (20 km/h)
• SAE J1511 Acceptable
• auto activation
• warning
• force on wheel limited
• Jan 2000 Skidder

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General Requirements (contd)

• 16.17 Single Cab Entrance Emergency Escape

• Year 2000 Escape
• 2 ways out
• marked, 30 pounds force to open
• Size, location
• older equipment meet previous standards

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16.18 Controls
General Requirements (contd)

• standard acceptable
• marked, located, maintained
• two lever joy stick, loader, excavator, log
  loader SAE J1177 (cat system)

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General Requirements (contd)

• 16.19 Load Handling Attachments

• Buckets, forks, hoists and load handling
  attachments to be installed as per mobile
  equipment manufacturers specification or as
  certified by a professional engineer.

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General Requirements (contd)

• 16.20 Lifting Equipment Load Rating

• visible and readable rated load
• load chart
• logging exempt

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Guarding
Operator Protective Structures (OPS)
Falling or Flying Object Protective Structure
(FOPS) WCB, SAE
Roll Over Protective Structure (ROPS)
WCB G600 StdsCabWindow
SAE 1084 Brush Guard SAE231Roof
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Excavator Demolition

• Single Story
• Two Story Wood Frame
• Two Story plus Concrete Block or Concrete Wall
  Building
• Recommend 602, 608 and removable guards

• room
• no room

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Excavator Lot or Land Clearing

• Best Case 0
• Feeding low burn piles, no overhead hazards, no
  thumb (G603 or G604 front)
• Feeding high burn pile and or using a thumb
  (G603 front)
• First machine in, clearing standing timber
• 602, 603 (all windows if possible), 608, escape

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Guards (ROPS)
With a mass of 700 kg of more

• 16.22 Required for
• crawler tractors, loaders, skidders
• wheel tractors, dozers, loaders, skidders
• motor graders
• scrapers
• self propelled rock drills moved by on-board
  operator
• compactors/rollers
• wheeled trenchers made after Jan. 1, 2000
• pipe layers made after Jan. 1, 2000
• Farm Tractors over 20 hp

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Guards

• Roll over protective structure ROPS
• Designed for
• one 360o roll on a hard clay surface of 30o
  maximum slope without loss of contact with slope
  at forward speeds up to 10 mph.

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Guards (ROPS)

• 16.22 Required for
• May call for ROPS if design of equipment or
  circumstances of use indicate the need.
• Listed Mobile equipment may be used without
  ROPS if
• specific location
• no significant hazard of roll over
• surface free of irregularities that may cause
  roll over

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Seat and Rider

• 16.29 Operators seat
• safe and secure if needed
• permits access to controls
• lateral support for rough terrain

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Seat and Rider

• 16.30 Riders
• only authorized persons
• 16.31 Rider Restrictions
• operator only unless a worker transport vehicle
• on non ROPS machines, rider ok if
• appropriate seat or
• safe facilities by

• manufacturer
• engineer

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Seat Belts

• 16.32 Provisions
• ROPS equipment and pipe layers
• 2 belt now ok
• maintained in good condition
• 16.33 Use Where Law requires it
• when - in motion
• - unstable

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Operating Requirements

• 16.34 Inspection
• minimum at start of shift
• report defects to supervisor
• fix before use
• 16.35 Secure objects in cab
• 16.36 Dont leave controls unless
• parking brake set
• transmission in park
• chocking wheels
• boom, blade, bucket etc has been landed

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Operating Requirements

• 16.37 Elevated loads
• secured if unattended
• blocked if above worker
• hydraulic or pneumatic jacks need check valves or
  other device if used for blocking
• after Dec. 1998 new dump trucks to have
  mechanical block for box.

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Operating Requirements

• 16.43 Equipment and Pedestrians
• separate areas (walkways) or
• work procedure
• traffic control
• speed limits
• other
• where pedestrian traffic separated can operate
  lift truck with elevated load if truck still
  stable.

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Operating Requirements

• 16.44 Securing loads
• loaded or secured so no hazard to workers
• means to prevent significant load shift under
  emergency stopping conditions
• standard acceptable to board
• binders or banding may not be enough
• log truck sort of exempted

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Operating Requirements

• 16.45 Cylindrical objects
• restrained upon loading and unloading
• if perimeter pins used
• minimum of 18 high and
• one diameter above upper lay adjacent to pin

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Operating Requirements

• 16.46 Lift truck loads
• unitized - less than half above backrest or
  carriage
• loose - no part above backrest
• loads where load shift causes instability, to be
  restrained
• above does not apply if no possibility of any
  part of the load falling off

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General

• Forklift overload
• back wheels off ground
• poor steering with load
• bent forks
• bent fork pin

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ANSI B56.1-1993Powered Industrial Trucks (Lift
Trucks)

• Restraint
• Training
• Trailing load
• Ops
• Dock plates

• Securing trailers
• Moving rail cars
• Elevating personnel
• Work platforms
• Fine points
• Define attended
• Forks extensions

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Tire Servicing

• 16.47 Must have and use safe procedure
  for
• inspecting
• de-mounting
• repair
• mounting and
• inflating

And be Trained
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All Terrain Vehicles (ATV)

• 16.3(6) Appropriate and safe for
  intended use
• 16.49 No three wheelers
• 16.50 Structural or stability
  modifications gt certify
• 16.51 manual accessible to operator
• use according to manual

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