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Posted By William
Just to ask opinions of you all on a hypothetical issue.
A worker comes on site with plenty of slinging experience but none from working gantry cranes, it does not state on his cv that he has ever worked any type of crane.
Yet on the first day of the job he is expected to use gantry cranes and when he raises the issue with his supervisor he advises him to be shown by the other slingers how to operate the gantry crane.
The same slinger is then expected to work as both the load handler/slinger and crane operator, should this result in an accident who would be liable? and under which regs?
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Posted By alex mccreadie
William start with PUWER Regs.
Employer liability to ensure Adequate Information and Instruction is given to employee before using work equipment.
Hope this helps
Alex
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Posted By Mitch
William,
Document what little instruction/training has been given, speak to your insurers for their specific requirements. We use 3 companies to repair/service our gantry cranes and all 3 provide a 1 day course for crane operators all of which are accepted by our insurers. If you have any specific queries contact the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association at leea.co.uk they are very helpful. In the meantime I would not let the employee operate said crane(s).
Mitch
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