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2.0 SAFETY AND ACCIDENT
PREVENTING PROVISIONS
Pay great attention to the danger signal where indicated in this handbook.
There are three types of danger signal:
DANGER: This signal warns when serious injuries, death or long-term health risks would be caused by failure to
correctly carry out the described operations.
WARNING: This signal warns when serious injuries, death or long-term health risks could be caused by failure to
correctly carry out the described operations.
CAUTION: This signal warns when damage to the machine could be caused by failure to carry out the described
operations.
In order to complete the various levels of danger, the following describe situations and specific definitions that may
directly involve the machine or persons.
l DANGER ZONE: any area inside a/o near a machine in which the presence of an exposed person constitutes a
risk for the safety and health of that person.
l EXPOSED PERSON: Any person who happens to be completely or partially in a danger zone.
l OPERATOR: The person/s charged with installing, starting up, adjusting, carrying out maintenance, cleaning,
repairing or transporting a machine.
l USER: The user is the person or the organization or the firm which has purchased or rented the machine and
intends to use it for the purposes it was conceived for.
l SPECIALIZED PERSONNEL: Those persons who have been specially trained and qualified to carry out
interventions of maintenance or repair requiring a particular knowledge of the machine, its functioning, safety
measures, methods of intervention - and who are in a position to recognize the potential dangers when using
the machine and are able to avoid them.
l AUTHORIZED SERVICE CENTER: The authorized Service Center is a structure legally authorized by the
manufacturer which disposes of personnel specialized and qualified to carry out all the operations of
assistance, maintenance and repair - even of a certain complexity - found necessary to keep the machine in
perfect working order.
Become thoroughly familiar with all the instructions before using the machine. Contact the technicians of
the Manufacturer's concessionaires in case of doubt.
The Manufacturer declines all and every responsibility for failure to comply with the safety and accident-
prevention regulations described herein.
1) Comply with the instructions given by the danger symbols in this handbook and affixed to the machine itself.
2) Never ever touch any moving part.
3) Operations and adjustments to the implement must always be carried out when the engine is off and the tractor
braked.
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