Set up exclusion zones, use a qualified spotter or get the Power Company to isolate or tiger tail the lines. Don’t be a victim of complacency.
Know your ground conditions and load bearing capacity
Use a qualified engineer to ensure the load bearing capacity of the surface . Need your workers trained?
What is the cost of getting it wrong?
Don’t ignore alarms and don’t tamper or disable safety devices like the tilt alarm.
If the tilt alarm goes off, you shouldn’t be able to raise the boom any higher. Lower to the ground and either move to more level ground or level the EWP using the outriggers. Don’t tamper or disable safety devices like the tilt alarm. Otherwise the EWP will think it is level and allow you to raise it on a dangerous angle.
Learn form the mistakes of others. You won’t live long enough to make all of them yourself.
Training and operator competence to avoid work place accidents
