Safety Alert
Earth Moving Machinery – changes to visibility requirements
Earth Moving Machinery – changes to visibility requirements
- HSE
- Safety Alert
- FOD1-2015
- Machinery and EquipmentVehicles and Driving
- Regulation and legislationRisk management
- Vehicles and driving
- Risk assessmentSafety communication
- Construction
Summary
HSE alerts earth-moving machinery manufacturers and importers to withdrawn presumption of conformity for visibility requirements. It calls for conformity reviews, risk-based design improvements and revised instructions where short-term improvements are unavailable. Guidance describes visibility maps showing approximate blind spots, test-object dimensions and operator eye position to communicate residual risks.
Classifications: Regulation and legislation; safety legislation; regulatory requirements.
Classifications: Risk management; risk evaluation.
Classifications: Vehicles and driving; driving; road transport.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Construction; construction industry.
FOD1-2015. Themes: machinery and equipment, vehicles and driving.