shafts including working stages or platforms installing ground support quickly within them changing design e.g. including kick and toe boards, chutes and splash plates pits, trenches, sumps and benches equipment, bins, tanks, kibbles, spoil stackers, installing screens, overhead protection, lifts and plant protected walkways and lock-out danger areas building roofs or walls of the tunnel, cuttings, portal walls or batters not allowing work above other people rock and other material falling from passing using lanyards or thongs on tools trucks or during spoil loading and unloading elevated structures like conveyors, hoisting facilities, bins, tipping mechanisms for spoil, working platforms, formwork, ladders and scaffolding Vibration Some types of plant when used in tunnelling can expose people to vibration. Control measures should be implemented to eliminate or minimise, so far as is reasonably practicable, the risks associated with that exposure. Risk assessments should be prepared and control measures implemented based on the number of workers and work shift patterns including exposure to the vibration risk likely to occur during the work. In the absence of Australian exposure standards, vibration exposure limits are based on the European Directive: Directive 2002/44/EC. Further information on vibration is in Safe Work fact sheets on hand-arm and Australia’s vibration. Hand-arm vibration Hand-held plant that can cause exposure to vibration includes rock drills, jack picks, concrete vibrators and air tools. Control measures to reduce hand-arm vibration exposure include: checking in vibration emission data from manufacturers or tool suppliers to identify ‘tool use’ and select those with the lowest vibration levels suitable for the job replacing hand-held tools and equipment with mechanised or remote controlled systems like rock-drilling jumbos or slide-mounted drills items fixing ‘out-of-balance’ regularly servicing plant to the specifications to reduce vibration manufacturers’ using vibration-absorbing handles or rubber-type vibration insulating devices between the tool and the hands issuing suitable clothing and gloves to assist blood circulation by keeping the hands worker’s warm, and providing workers with training and instruction before work starts about keeping vibration exposure down to avoid hand-arm vibration syndrome keeping tools sharp through a tool maintenance regime
shafts including working stages or platforms within them pits, trenches, sumps and benches equipment, bins, tanks, kibbles, spoil stackers, lifts and plant building roofs or walls of the tunnel, cuttings, portal walls or batters rock and other material falling from passing trucks or during spoil loading and unloading elevated structures like conveyors, hoisting facilities, bins, tipping mechanisms for spoil, working platforms, formwork, ladders and scaffolding installing ground support quickly changing design e.g. including kick and toe boards, chutes and splash plates installing screens, overhead protection, protected walkways and lock-out danger areas not allowing work above other people using lanyards or thongs on tools Vibration Some types of plant when used in tunnelling can expose people to vibration. Control measures should be implemented to eliminate or minimise, so far as is reasonably practicable, the risks associated with that exposure. Risk assessments should be prepared and control measures implemented based on the number of workers and work shift patterns including exposure to the vibration risk likely to occur during the work. In the absence of Australian exposure standards, vibration exposure limits are based on the European Directive: Directive 2002/44/EC. Further information on vibration is in Safe Work Australia’s fact sheets on hand-arm and vibration. Hand-arm vibration Hand-held plant that can cause exposure to vibration includes rock drills, jack picks, concrete vibrators and air tools. Control measures to reduce hand-arm vibration exposure include: checking ‘tool in use’ vibration emission data from manufacturers or tool suppliers to identify and select those with the lowest vibration levels suitable for the job replacing hand-held tools and equipment with mechanised or remote controlled systems like rock-drilling jumbos or slide-mounted drills fixing ‘out-of-balance’ items regularly servicing plant to the manufacturers’ specifications to reduce vibration using vibration-absorbing handles or rubber-type vibration insulating devices between the tool and the hands issuing suitable clothing and gloves to assist blood circulation by keeping the worker’s hands warm, and providing workers with training and instruction before work starts about keeping vibration exposure down to avoid hand-arm vibration syndrome keeping tools sharp through a tool maintenance regime