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Can someone confirm if a safety helmet to EN397, providing it is worn with a chin strap, is suitable for MEWP use or if we should be using the helmets to EN12492 for climbing?
I'm thinking the EN397 with the chin strap is sufficient but just looking for others thoughts.
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I'm with your thinking of EN397 Helmet - never heard of using a climbing helmet being worn for standing in a scissors lift.
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There are many different types of hard hats compliant with EN397. In my opinion working in a MEWP should be the type worn by scaffolders (not dissimilar to climbing) where they are peakless to improve forward/upward vision, with a chin strap of course.
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In a MEWP all above is sky, why do you need a helmet?
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redken wrote:In a MEWP all above is sky, why do you need a helmet?
If working in a construction environment it is normally compulsory to wear head protection. Plus if you fell out of the basket or struck your head on adjacent infrastructure a hard hat will protect you as it will from falling objects, if someone was working above you.
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redken wrote:In a MEWP all above is sky, why do you need a helmet?
A MEWP is often empoyed indoors to access ceilings, lighting, pipework. So, e.g. a poor manouevre and your head could impact with a pipe.
John
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Thanks all for your input. To answer redken's query we work mostly on the repair or installation of steel structures and in a lot of cases the sky is not what is above us hence the requirement for safety helmets.
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Hard hats are needed if working in areas with overhead obstructions and EN397 is fine but should be used with a chin strap. As mentioned earlier a peakless hard hat will give better visability.
Not sure why a person would fall out of a basket if they were using the machine correctly, i.e. full body harness and suitably adjusted restraint lanyard on all booms and not standing on handrails, over reaching etc in scissors.
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CarlT wrote:
Not sure why a person would fall out of a basket if they were using the machine correctly,
I was at BP Saltend about 15 years ago and they were building a power station next door.
Two men were working in a cherry picker when the swan neck gave way, resulting in them hanging out of the basket by their lanyards after being buffeted against the steelwork.
Accidents do happen.
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frankc wrote:CarlT wrote:
Not sure why a person would fall out of a basket if they were using the machine correctly,
I was at BP Saltend about 15 years ago and they were building a power station next door.
Two men were working in a cherry picker when the swan neck gave way, resulting in them hanging out of the basket by their lanyards after being buffeted against the steelwork.
Accidents do happen.
Yep, good point.
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