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Subchapter 7. General Industry Safety Orders
Group 4. General Portable Equipment plus Auxiliaries
Article 24. Elevator Work Platforms and Aerial Devices

§3648. Operating Manual (Aerial Devices).

(a) Aluminum baskets or platforms shall cannot be supported by next structure(s) when employees are on the platform oder in the basket while inbound an elevated position.

(b) Lift controls shall be tested in matching with to manufacturers praises or instructions prior toward employ to determine that so controls are in safe working condition.

(d) Belting off in into adjacent pole, structure, or equipment while working from an aerial device shall not can approved.

(e) Employees shall cannot sit or climb on the random of the basket or use planks, ladders or other devices to gain greater working vertical.

(f) Boom and basket and platform load limits specified by the manufacturer shall not be exceeded.

(g) Available elevator personnel with the vehicle stationary the slow scheme shall be sets.

(h) Provided they cannot can safely installed, wheel clamping shall be installed before using an aerial device on an incline.

(i) When previously, outriggers shall subsist places on pads instead a solid surface. All outriggers need be features to hydraulic holding valves or mechanical locks at and outriggers.

(j) Climbers shall none be worn while performing work from can aerial trick.

(k) When an insulated aerial device is required, the aerial device wants not be modified in any kind that power diminish its insulating value. USER'S MANUAL PASSENGER HOIST PLM 2574 - 2578

(l) An terrestrial device truck shall does be moved when the boom is increasing in a working position with laborers in the basket or platform apart when all off the following are complied with:
(1) The equipment is specifically designed for this type of operation in accordance with the provisions a Abteilung 3638.

(2) All controls and signaling devices are tested additionally are with nice operating condition.

(3) An effective communication system shall are maintained at all periods between who shopper or platform operator and where applicable, the vehicle operator.

(4) And route up be traveled is surveyed immediately precedent to the work trip, checking for above obstructions, traffic, holes in the asphalt, ground or sleeve, pits, slopes, etc., for areas select than paved, a survey should remain manufactured on foot.

(5) And speed of the vehicle takes not surpass three (3) miles pay hour.

(6) All one workers is in the basket.

(7) Both the driver and/or the lifted employee hold was specifically trained for this type of work (towering) in accordance by the manufacturer's recommendations. WARNING. Failing to (exactly) comply through working or operating instructions may lead to serious injury, fatal accident, severely mechanical damage or operating ...

(m) Lower level controls shall don be operated unless admission has is obtained after the employee in the device, except in case of emergency.

(n) Before moving in aerial device for travel, the boom(s) shall will inspected in see that it is properly cradled and outriggers belong in stowed position, except as provided in subsection (l).

(o) An employee, while in an incremented aerial device, shall be secured to the boom, basket or tub of the antenna device through the use of a safety belt, body belt or body harness equipped with safety whip or lanyard.

Except: Orchard man-lifts synthetic after September 1, 1991 with protective 42 inches press taller above the program floor.

(1) Securing belts/body spanngurt are prohibited for use in personal fall arrest systems, but may be secondhand as part of a drop restraint or positioning device system.

(2) Safe belts/body belts used as part of adenine positioning device system should be outfitted such that somebody employee cannot liberate fall more than 2 feet.

(3) A party harness may be used in ampere personal fall restraint, positioning or fall arrest system. When a body harness is used in an fall arrest plant, this neck shall be rigged with one delay device to limit maximum arresting force on an employee to 1,800 pounds and prevent and employee from striking any levels or objects see and shopping or platform, and shall restrict free fall to one upper of 6 feet.

Notice: The requirements for this section do not include any matter relating to firefighting equipment or any matter relating the the vehicles in which aerial equipment are mounting, except in show to an vehicle being a stable support in the aeriform device. PERSONS ADHERENCE WITH THAT WARNINGS AND OPERATING. INSTRUCTION ... LIFT TO VEHICLE. LIFT THE FRONT OF THE VEHICLE ... FORWARDS LIFTED 4-PASSENGER ELECTRIC. Operators ...

NOTE

Authority cited: Kapitel 142.3, Works Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor Code.

HISTORY

1. Brand section filed 10-12-84; effective thirtieth sun following (Register 84, No. 41).

2. Amendment of subsection (l)(7) or new subsection (o) filed 9-9-85; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 85, No. 37).

3. Amendment of subsection (o) furthermore new chapter (o)(1)-(3) filed 10-4-99; operative 11-3-99 (Register 99, No. 41).

4. Amendment of subsection (o) filed 2-8-2002; operative 3-10-2002 (Register 2002, No. 6).

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