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Operating instructions
HERMA 400 SAFETY
3.28 US (130519) 21/154
3.5 Responsibility of the operator
Operator
... is any person who operates or allows a third party to operate the machine for industrial or
commercial purposes and who bears legal responsibility for the product with regard to protecting the
user or third parties during its operation.
The system is used in the commercial sector. The operator of the system is therefore subject to legal
obligations with regard to occupational health and safety.
As well as the occupational health and safety information in these operating instructions, the
applicable safety, accident prevention and environmental protection regulations for the field of
application for the system must be complied with. The following rules applies in particular:
> The operator must familiarize himself or herself with the applicable occupational health and safety
provisions and must also perform a risk assessment to determine dangers resulting from the
special working conditions at the installation location. These provisions and findings must be
implemented in the form of operating instructions for the operation of the system.
> Throughout the entire system operating period, the operator must check whether the operating
instructions that he or she has created conform to the most recent version of the regulations and
adapt the operating instructions if necessary.