Hold daily equipment inspections in addition to regular maintenance checks. You will keep your equipment safe for production and exhibit your commitment to safety.
Please read and use this manual as a guide to equipment safety. This manual contains safety warnings throughout, specific to each function and point of operation.
2-6 Operator Responsibility
The operator’s responsibility does not end with efficient production. The operator usually has the most daily contact with the loader and intimately knows its capabilities and limitations.
Plant and personnel safety is sometimes forgotten in the desire to meet incentive rates, or through a casual attitude toward machinery formed over a period of months or years. Your employer probably has established a set of safety rules in your workplace. Those rules, this manual, or any other safety information will not keep you from being injured while operating your equipment.
ONLY YOU can make safety work for you by constantly thinking about what is safe and what is not. It is often the “just once” that an operator reaches into a loader to remove material and it results in serious injury.
Learn and always use safe operation. Cooperate with
REMEMBER:
•NEVER place your hands or any part of your body in any dangerous location.
•NEVER operate, service, or adjust the loader without appropriate training and first reading and understanding this manual.
•NEVER try to pull material out of the loader with your hands while it is running!
•Before you start the loader check the following:
•Remove all tools from the blender;
•Be sure no objects (tools, nuts, bolts, clamps, bars) are laying in the metering or mixing area;
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