6 Maintenance
General maintenance information
General maintenance information
Personnel qualifications
Only qualified and authorised personnel
are allowed to perform maintenance work.
The annual testing must be carried out by
a qualified person. The examination and
assessment by the qualified person must
not be affected by operational and economic
conditions and must be conducted solely
from a safety perspective. The qualified
person must have sufficient knowledge
and experience to be able to assess the
condition of a truck and the effectiveness of
the protective devices in accordance with
technical conventions and the principles for
testing trucks.
Maintenance personnel for batteries
Batteries may only be charged, maintained
or changed by properly trained personnel
in accordance with the instructions from the
manufacturers of the battery, battery charger
and truck. The handling instructions for the
battery and the operating instructions for the
battery charger must be followed.
Maintenance work without special
qualifications
Simple maintenance w
ork, such as checking
thefluidlevelintheb
attery, may be carried
out by untrained pers
onnel. A qualification,
like that of a special
ist, is not required to carry
out this work. The req
uired operations are de-
scribed in sufficient
detail in the corresponding
sections in these ope
rating instructions.
Information for ca
rrying out mainte-
nance
This section cont
ains all information required
to determine when
the truck needs main-
tenance. Mainten
ance must be carried out
within the time li
mits according to the hour me-
ter and by follow
ing the maintenance check
lists. This is th
e only way to ensure that the
truck remains re
ady for operation and pro-
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