Risk Assessment: Electromechanical Erection
Workers Affected by Works Hazards
RISK
Traffic accidents in transit around the client’s facilities.
Traffic accident in itinere (on the way to and from work).
RISK FACTORS
- Use of vehicles for displacements around the client’s facilities and as a means of getting to the site.
- Use of vehicles in itinere.
PREVENTIVE MEASURES
Rules for acting
- Comply with road regulations and lay emphasis on:
1. Not using a mobile phone when driving; this may only be used via an approved hands-free device.
2. Not ingesting alcoholic drinks before getting into the vehicle.
3. Respecting road signs at all time, as well as the client’s internal traffic regulations.
4. Respecting established speed limits, adapting driving to road conditions at each moment in time.
5. Using safety belts. - Scheduled maintenance of the vehicle.
- If meteorological conditions are not appropriate, maximize precautions and, if necessary, stop work.
- Scheduling displacements so as to make the least number possible.
RISK
10 Persons falling onto a different level.
RISK FACTORS
- Presence of pits (as part of the facilities themselves or the ground), trenches (civil works).
- Due to working at heights (scaffolding, portable ladders, baskets) for installing trays, laying cables, wiring, erecting equipment, erection of lintels, of electricity lines, etc.).
- When using ladders to access different levels in works or at our clients’ facilities.
- When using climbing shoes to climb up/down posts and life-lines to climb up/down/move around on supports and lintels.
- When loading, unloading or placing materials in the back of ISASTUR trucks.
- When getting into and out of trucks.
PREVENTIVE MEASURES
Rules for acting
- To carry out temporary work at heights, priority is to be given to collective protection over personal protection (elevating platforms or scaffolding are preferable to portable ladders or access and positioning techniques using ropes).
- Preference is to be given to the safest work at heights means for the worker, whenever technically and economically feasible.
- The dimensions of the equipment for this type of work is to allow circulating without any hazard.
- Collective protection devices against falls can only be interrupted at the access points of a stairway or ladder.
- If an anti-fall collective protection device must be removed, alternative measures are to be provided for. Work is not to commence without prior application of said measures.
- Once work has finished (temporarily or definitively), any collective protection devices that have been removed are to be re-installed.
- To carry out temporary work at heights, meteorological conditions at the time cannot place workers in danger.
- Railings and skirting on scaffolding. Proper erection.
- Cover holes or, otherwise, protect and signpost them.
- Respect safety distances and signs if they exist on site.
