EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS FOR PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AND FOR ACCIDENT PREVENTION
Use protective clothes – Protective clothes are necessary for diverse
applications, e.g. protection against chemicals, heat and cold. Provide appropriate
protective clothes to your staff and identify this requirement by convincing signage.
Use head protection – save your staff and visitors from head injuries. Supply
enough working helmets and safety helmets and identify the obligation for using
protective helmets by appropriate mandatory signs.
Use eye protection – save your staff and visitors from head injuries. Supply
enough working helmets and safety helmets and identify the obligation for using
protective helmets by appropriate mandatory signs.
Use ear protection – Capsule hearing protectors or hearing protectors have to
be used for ear protection, depending on the sound intensity at the work place.
Provide appropriate ear protection and identify the obligation for using ear
protection by appropriate mandatory signs.
Use foot protection – Foot injuries by vehicles, objects, hot material or
hazardous substances can be avoided by appropriate protective shoes. Equip
your staff with appropriate protective shoes and identify those requirements
properly.
Use hand protection – Identify convincingly the safety requirement "Use hand
protection" by a gloves sign, respectively a gloves symbol.
Use respiratory protection – Ensure that the specified protection equipment
is available and that it is used. Identify by mandatory signs, where and when
respiratory masks are required.
Danger Zones
Operational
condition
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Life phase
Transport of the machine in
Transport
an inoperable condition
Installation of the machine
Startup
(hose, respectively pipe
Normal function
in a construction.
system)
Malfunction
Improper use Expected use
Transport
of the
Drop of the
machine in
machine
an operable
condition
Unknown
Unknown
unknown
unknown
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