Openings in shafts, galleries with an incline of more than 45°, and openings such as those provided for the passage of lifts, or such as chimney shafts or trap doors, which may exist in the floors of a building as well as in the floors of scaffolding, gangways or any other installations, must be enclosed or closed off : 1° Either by a guardrail placed at a height of 90…
Materials on the site are stacked and arranged in such a way as not to endanger workers.
It is forbidden to leave boards with protruding points abandoned on the site.
Areas where work is being carried out, and access to them, must be adequately lit.
When a worksite usually involves a large movement of lorries or other transport vehicles, specially reserved and appropriately signposted tracks will be laid for these vehicles.
When the driver of a lorry performs a manoeuvre, in particular reversing, in conditions of insufficient visibility, one or more workers shall direct the driver and warn, by voice or by conventional signals, persons coming into the area where the vehicle is moving. The same measures are taken when unloading a truck body.
If a vehicle, piece of equipment or mobile worksite machinery is stationary on sloping ground without its driver, it must be immobilised by any appropriate means.
It is forbidden to work under the body of a lorry or under a moving part of a construction machine without using an appropriate device to prevent an accident in the event of failure of the normal restraint device. In concrete mixers, the usual device for stopping the tipper acting on the operating cable is backed up by an additional device for immobilising it in the raised position. This device…
Jacks are fitted with a device capable of preventing the crank from turning back.
All equipment, machinery, installations and protective devices of any kind used on a worksite are examined before being put into service or recommissioned to ensure that they comply with the provisions of this chapter.
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