Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007
Fork-lift trucks.
39. An employer shall ensure that a fork-lift truck carrying one or more employees is equipped or adapted to limit the risk of it overturning—
(a) by the installation of an enclosure for the driver,
(b) by a structure preventing the fork-lift truck from overturning,
(c) by a structure ensuring that, if the fork-lift truck overturns, sufficient clearance remains between the ground and appropriate parts of the fork-lift truck for the F11[ride-on employees], or
(d) by a structure restraining the employees on the driving seat so as to prevent them from being crushed by parts of the fork-lift truck which overturns.
Annotations
Amendments:
F11
Substituted (1.04.2020) by Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 2 of 2020), reg. 2(f), in effect as per reg. 1(2).