Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007

Fork-lift trucks.

39

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.

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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).