FLT Accidents

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Tips for preventing similar accidents

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Ensure that everyone knows that they are not to climb onto a machine in any location other than the operator's seat.

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.Before leaving the operator's seat, place the loading device at the lowest position. Then take measures to prevent the forklift from movingunexpectedly, such as turning off the engine and firmly setting the brake to keep the machine in place.

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Never let a worker stand between the masts. Never use a mast as a ladder.

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Secure unstable loads and ensure that they will not collapse or fall over before operating the vehicle.


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Do not stand on loads or pallets.If work must be performed on a pallet, ensure that the machinery is in a location where it is not at risk of tumbling over, install handrails or aframe of an adequate height around the pallet, take necessary measures such as securing the pallet to the forks, and ensure that the workeruses a safety belt.

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.Use appropriate machines and equipment, such as aerial work platforms and scaffolding.


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Do not operate a forklift when two people are riding on it.

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.When practicing forklift maneuvers, be especially attentive to your surroundings.When providing hands-on training, trainers should use a vehicle equipped with a mechanism that allows them to ride safely alongside thetrainee.

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Trainers should carefully study the methods and procedures for safely training new workers in advance, in accordance with the training


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Use appropriate loading machinery, such as a crane, when transporting and loading elongated objects.

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.If a forklift must be used, confirm that the load is securely fastened, insert the forks under the center of gravity of the load, and raise them to theappropriate height.

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Operators should follow the instructions of guide workers when loading objects.

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When dangers are foreseen, discuss ways to prevent accidents.


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Do not operate machinery when loads are unstable and high above the ground (loads should be carried about 15cm above theground).

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.Do not turn or brake suddenly while operating machinery.

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Use designated attachments, such as a crane arm, to transport loads.


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Gangplanks should be placed securely at an appropriate

incline.

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.Use the truck's installed winch or self-loader to loadequipments.

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Assign a worker to serve as a guide during loading.


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.Take measures to ensure that your load is not going to fall off the vehicle even during suddenstops.

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Use a ram li ft or other designated attachment to transport coils.

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Find a safe location, and refrain from walking while using a cell phone, at a work site.

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Ensure that all workers know never to step outside of the safety path.


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Check the status of a load before loading and unloading.

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.When trying to adjust a load on a forklift, lower the load to the ground first.

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When leaving the operator's seat, set the side brake, turn off the engine, and remove thekey.

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Do not stand in front of or behind a forklift.


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.Use appropriate machines and equipment, such as aerial work platforms and scaffolding.

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Do not work on top of loads or pallets.If work must be performed on a pallet, ensure that machinery in a location where it is not at risk of tumbling over, install handrails or a frame of an adequateheight around the pallet, and ensure all necessary measures are taken, such as securing the pallet to the forks, and ensuring that the worker uses a safetybelt.


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.When loading and unloading cargo, turn off a truck's engine.

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Follow proper work procedures, establish signals, and make sure that everyone is familiar withthem.

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Truck drivers should perform a safety check before attempting to pull away.


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.Ensure that all workers are aware that forklifts are not to be ridden in any location other than the operator's seat.

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When loading work has to be done in high places, use equipment such as a ramp or ladder to climb up and down.

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Ensure that all workers have undergone safety training regarding activities that are prohibited for the sake of preventing accidents, the use of necessaryequipment, and the necessity of due diligence.


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Always approach inclines, whether ascending or descending, from straight on. Never cross inclines diagonally.

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To change direction, return to a flat area first.

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When you have poor visibility in front, or when going down a ramp, lower the load to the lowest position possible, and go down the ramp inreverse.


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Tips for forestalling the accident

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.Make sure that no partial load is applied to the fork, when carryingcargos.

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Do not allow anybody else to ride on a lift truck in other than theoperator's compartment.

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Use either a crane or a vehicle capable of lifting up and down cargos.


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Tips for forestalling similar accidents1

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Do not bring any part of the body under lifted cargos.

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Use a special attachment, when lifting up a cargo with a lift truck.

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Compile working procedures corresponding with types andconfigurations of cargos to be handled and see that they are followed.Use of cranes will be a good solution


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Tips for forestalling similar accidents

1. Travel a lift truck with a sludge bin at the lowest position possible.

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Do not raise a cargo on the fork nor tilt the mast forward, whilerunning.

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Check the running road, clean it if necessary and always keep it safefor running. When the road surface is slippery, slow down a lift truckand make tilting or lifting operations only after bringing the vehicle to acomplete halt.


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.Provide a sidewalk exclusively for pedestrians along the isles and seethat they walk on the sidewalk without fail.

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If a worker is obliged to step in the area where a lift truck is operated,he/she will caution the operator and both parties will confirm mutualsafety.

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A lift truck operator will check safety in the traveling direction inadvance.


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Tips for forestalling similar accidents1. Select and install an attachment in the lift truck that is the best suited to cargos to be transported. At the same

time fasten the cargo to prevent it from sliding down.

2. Do not lift up the fork higher than required, when it is loaded.

3. Determine a safe traveling course in advance and have an operator travel a lift truck along it without fail. If itcannot be avoided for a lift truck to ride over an opening, make a thorough review over the safety beforehand.

4. A signalman will take a post where he/she can be easily seen from the lift truck and guide it, keeping a sufficientdistance for safety.


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.Provide safe working conditions for lif t truck operation beforehandsuch as spreading out steel plates on the soft ground in this case.

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If there is no other way to bail out a stuck li ft truck than pulling with awire rope, hook one end of the wire rope to a "draw pin" provided at acounterweight of the lift truck and pull it out in the rear direction


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.Never travel a lift truck, keeping the loaded fork at unnecessaryheight, when traveling. Even when a travel distance is short, lower thefork and then start to travel.

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Make a thorough check in the traveling direction for safety, whiletraveling


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.Lower the fork to the ground, apply the parking brake tightly, stop theengine and pull out the engine starting switch key, whenever leavingthe operator's seat.

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If it becomes necessary to park a lift truck on a slope, place chocksbefore or behind the wheels, as the case may be.


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Tips for forestalling the accident1. Put flexible containers (sacks) on a pallet and move them for loading thereafter, unless absolutely difficult to do so.

2. Lower the loaded fork to the lowest position possible, when traveling.

3. If it becomes definitely necessary to use a lift truck in combination with a hanging rope or a hanging belt, use thespecial attachments such as a crane attachment and a fork hook attachment.

4. Check the ground condition beforehand where a lift truck is used. Take necessary precautions like leveling theground surface, slowing down the vehicle, turning the vehicle with great care, etc. in order to prevent the sacks f romstarting to swing.


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Tips for forestalling the accident1. Use a hinged fork or a log fork that is suited to the handling of logs.

2.Never give a push to a log for the purpose of adjusting its posture. By the same token, an assistant worker (the truck driverin this case) will take a safe position in anticipation of perils resulting from sudden movement of logs.

3.Heighten the truck gates over the normal height. In addition set up bolsters on the truck body to prevent a log heap fromcollapsing.


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Tips for forestalling the accidentA lift truck is all likely to overturn for the structural reason, if an operator makes a sharp turn or asudden stop. Therefore, it should be avoided to tow it with a truck even for a short distance, butload it on a truck and fasten it so that it wi ll not move around while in transportation.

For your reference:A towing pin at the rear of lift trucks isprovided only for bailing them out


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Tips for forestalling the accident1

.Make out a working schedule as well as working proceduresbeforehand so that lift truck jobs and other jobs wil l not be overlapped,and make them known to every worker concerned.

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If such overlapping of the jobs cannot be avoided, post a signalmanon the scene


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. For jobs at higher elevations, be sure to use a special purpose lift truck (otherwise called an order picking truck), and alsoinstruct the worker to fasten a safety belt without fail.

2. Light up the entire warehouse brightly enough even in the daytime, not to mention at night, to ensure a safe workingenvironment, whenever a work is to be done in the warehouse.

3. Instruct a supervisor to prepare for a work plan which clearly sets forth the work procedures. Furthermore make sure thathe/she will be available at the working site for necessary instructions, whenever there is any unexpected additional work, inorder to ensure safety in the work


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Tips for forestalling similar accidents1. Through the basic training and education for safety, drill a simple principle into the operators and workers that they must not step

in any other part of the l ift truck than the operator's compartment.*Never put a hand, foot or any other part of the body in the mast of lift trucks. It may be caught in a moving part of the mast,

causing a serious bodily injury.*Do not use the mast of lift trucks as a substitute for a ladder. He/she may slip off the mast and fall off.

2. Observe the instructions set forth in the Article 151-11 of Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health.They are:* Lower work equipment like a fork or bucket to the lowest position possible.* Take precautions required of loading vehicles such as switching off the engine and applying a parking brake without fail toensure their safety parking.

3. For jobs at higher elevations, be sure to use a special purpose lift truck (otherwise called an order picking truck), or other vehiclesfor high lift work


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.Do not climb up or step on any other part of a lift truck than the operator's compartment.*Never put a hand, foot or any other part of the body in the mast of lift trucks. It may be caught in a moving part of the mast, causing a serious

bodily injury.*Do not use the mast of lift trucks as a substitute for a ladder. He/she may slip off the mast and fall off.

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Lower the work equipment (forks) to the ground.*Lower work equipment like a fork or bucket to the lowest position possible.*Take precautions required of transport vehicles such as switching off the engine and applying a parking brake without fail to ensure theirsafety parking.

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Prepare for a ladder and a scaffold for warehouse works and store them in a designated location. Make their availability well known to thewarehouse workers.

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Do not try to handle cargos in unsteady conditions. If they threaten to fall off, start to handle them only after they are fastened, assuringneither fall-off nor disarray.

*Start to handle cargos stacked in multi layers only after they are fastened with a rope


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Tips for forestalling similar accidents1. Provide a sufficient width to the aisles in a plant so that the workers can walk along safely.

2. Instruct a lift truck operator to tilt back the mast of a lift truck sufficiently, when loaded.

3. Train the workers intensively for observing the basics for walking along the aisles without fail, such as check of the right andleft directions, stand-by, etc.

4. Instruct the workers to remove all personal protective equipments like dust-proof goggles and earplugs, while walking.

5. In such a noisy workplace as to require earplugs, install a rotating yellow lamp on lift trucks that optically warns approach ofthe vehicle from a distance


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.Keep the use of lift trucks under strict control, never allowing theirunauthorized operation.

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Set standards for the use of lift trucks that include the minimum spacefor use, necessary lift truck capacity, optimum cargo configuration,etc. and make sure that the operators will follow them without fail.

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Provide a fall-off proof structure at the edge of a platform


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Tips for forestalling similar accidents1. Set working processes in advance that prohibit lifting cargos with a lift truck, while parking it transverse to a slope.

2. Allow only a licensed and designated operator to operate lift trucks.

3. Adjust the distance between each fork tine to the optimum width according to cargos to be handled.

4. Avoid partial loading.

5. Put a lighter container upon the heavier one, but never the other way round


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Tips for forestalling similar accidents

Make sure that the operators of lift trucks take the following actions,whenever leaving lift trucks1. Lower the forks to the ground.

2. Apply the parking brake.

3. Stop the engine.

4. Remove the engine starting switch key.


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Operator crushed by suddenly descending forklift container

while trying to remove a piece of wood caught between the lift cylinders


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When moving a tree stump, use a pallet and place the stump in the center of the pallet.

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If a load must be moved using a hanging rope or belt, use the specified attachment for the forklif t or other piece of machinery.

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When carrying hanging loads, carry them as low to the ground as possible.

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Check for uneven areas in the ground or pathways around the work site in advance. When driving, reduce speed and carefully turn equipmentso that hanging loads do not swing unnecessarily


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.Always wear a safety belt when performing aerial work.

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Do not step off of a work platform onto another structure. If you must step outside of the work area, be sure towear a safety belt.

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When performing aerial work, be sure your protective hat is fastened secure


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