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What factors contribute to forklift truck incidents?
Many work-related factors can cause incidents. Grouping them into specific categories may help to analyze incidents and, eventually, to prevent them.
What factors of work organization can contribute to forklift truck incidents?
What factors can contribute to forklift truck incidents?
How can workplace design contribute to forklift truck incidents?
What characteristics of the load create a hazard?
What mechanical conditions or design features increase the risk for forklift incidents?
How can incidents with pedestrians be reduced or avoided?
Source: www.ccohs.ca
Convicted: Orin Contractors Corp., 100 Macintosh Blvd., Concord, Ontario, a contractor providing municipal construction.
Location of Workplace: Verdun Avenue in Oshawa.
Description of Offence: A worker was killed when the scoop bucket attachment on an excavator fell on the worker. A hydraulic coupler attached to the excavator was operated in a manner that was not in accordance with the bucket attachment procedure in the operating manual.
Date of Offence: June 19, 2018.
Date of Conviction: September 21, 2020.
Penalty Imposed:
Background:
Source: www.news.ontario.ca
A crawler mounted telescopic boom lift overturned in Rombach-le-Franc,
between Strasbourg and Colmar in Eastern France yesterday leaving one
man dead and another seriously injured.
The JLG boom lift was traveling on a steep grassed slope with the
platform at a height of around seven or eight metres when it went over
sideways. One of the two men in the platform, 55, was reported to have
died instantly, while his colleague, 51, was airlifted to hospital in
Colmar with serious injuries. At this stage we have no idea if the two
were wearing a harness or not.
The two men were employed by a local company Boiron which specialises in
the construction and maintenance of power lines . The company was
contracted to repair or maintain a 20,000 volt overhead power line for
power line installation and maintenance utility Enedis (previously
ERDF).
An investigation has been launched to determine the facts surrounding
the incident, and will include the local police and the company.
Source: www.vertikal.net
Question:
If I have an operator that has expressed a fear of heights but their manager says to certify them anyways, can I refuse to certify said operator? Is there a regulation that I could use as support to my refusal? I personally do not feel comfortable putting someone with a fear of heights in a lift, alone, and sending them in the air.
Answer:
I don’t know that you should refuse to certify this trainee but I would
encourage him/her to refuse to take the training. Or better still,
appeal to his/her supervisor to be exempt from operating MEWPs on the
grounds that they feel their fear of heights may prevent them from
operating the machinery safely. If the trainee does this but still ends
up in your training program, I suggest that you do what you can to
accommodate them and hopefully ease their fear, especially during
practical hands-on training.
Perhaps assign tasks that start out at heights the trainee is
comfortable with and gradually get higher over time. There’s no official
requirement for trainees to take the equipment to full height, but
there is an unofficial expectation that they should be able to go to 75%
of the MEWP's maximum height. Even then, site conditions could play
into things as well. For example, if the trainee is on an 80-ft.
boomlift but there is no task that they would ever be assigned to on
site that is above 50-ft., then that’s as high as they need to go –
which is high enough to perform any tasks they will be assigned as an
operator.
You could also assign a qualified operator willing to join them on the
work platform during practical training for moral support and backup, if
needed. Ultimately, the trainee is going to have to demonstrate to you
that he/she can operate the equipment safely during a practical
evaluation. If that does not happen for any reason, including a fear of
heights, they cannot be qualified as an operator.
The only other thing I can think of falls on the trainee to prove, with a
Doctor's endorsement, that their fear of heights is an actual, verified
medical condition that prevents them from working at height.
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