Personal Safety
Safety Precautions
These Safety Precautions, Warnings and Cautions advise personnel of specific hazards
which may be encountered during the procedures contained in this document and that
control measures are required to prevent injury to personnel, and damage to
equipment and/or the environment.
Before commencing the installation or any maintenance of this equipment, personnel
are to acquaint themselves with all risk assessments relevant to the work site and the
task. They must then comply with the control measures detailed in those risk
assessments.
References covering safety regulations, health hazards and hazardous substances are
detailed under the WARNINGS section below. These are referred to in the tasks, when
encountered.
Adequate precautions must be taken to ensure that other personnel do not activate
any equipment that has been switched off for maintenance. Refer to the relevant
Electrical Safety Regulations appropriate to the country of operation.
Where dangerous voltages are exposed during a task, safety personnel are to be
provided as detailed in the relevant Electrical Safety Regulations. Where safety
personnel are required for any other reason, management are to ensure that the
personnel detailed are aware of the hazard and are fully briefed on the action to be
taken in an emergency.
Where equipment contains heavy components or units that require lifting, lowering,
pulling or pushing operations to be performed on them during maintenance tasks, all
managers and tradesmen are to be conversant with the Manual Handling Operations
Regulations.
Hazardous Substances
Before using any hazardous substance or material, the user must be conversant with
the safety precautions and first aid instructions:
n On the label of the container in which it was supplied.
n On the material Safety Data Sheet.
n In any local Safety Orders and Regulations.
Doc Number: TNM-U-E-0156 Issue: 2.3 Page xi
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