Management of Safe Operation of Suspended Working Platform
A safe system of work should be established for every operation of a suspended working platform. The system should be prepared and endorsed, with the advice of project engineers, safety professionals, and relevant personnel of the site or of the building management. It should be distributed to all personnel involved in the operation. The safe system of work should be monitored and supervised by a competent person. He needs to ensure that every operation of the suspended working platform is safe and without risk to health to the personnel working inside or nearby the working platform.
The safe system of work should include the following:
- Planning and assessment of the operation including the selection of a suitable suspended working platform for the type of the job and the working environment.
- Method of installation and means of securing the stability of the suspended working platform.
- Arrangement of testing and thorough examination of the suspended working platform by a competent examiner.
- Provision of periodic maintenance of the suspended working platform, including on-site maintenance.
- Provision of operation and maintenance manual, log book, repair record, and certificates of test and thorough examination of the suspended working platform.
- Provision of a competent person for erection, repositioning and dismantling of the suspended working platform.
- Termination of the use of the suspended working platform during unsafe condition.
- Arrangement for monitoring and supervision in the implementation of the safety precautions and measures.
The operator must access into the suspended access equipment on ground, no accession into the suspended access equipment from the window in air is allowed. It is absolutely prohibited to access into the suspension platform from another one when it is suspended.
Authored by:
RSPian
Santosh Chaurasia