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I work in a further education college which teaches motor vehicle maintainance. A lecturer has requested a single post vehicle lift to supplement the tow and 4 post lifts already in place. Has anyone had any experience of this type of vehicle lift. My instincts are they would not be safe but would apprciate comment from others who work in the automaotive industry
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Hi Andrew, I'm not a mechnical engineer and I'm going to assume nor are you, I however would assume the lecturer’s asked for it because they’ve used one before in my experience, most are pretty knowledgeable in the subject they teach, usually from years in the trade. This was at least the case when I was a student. Like anything else, it falls under PUWER and LOLER That means it needs to be suitable for the task, properly installed and maintained, and have a TE by a competent person and so on. So in my opinion as long as it’s installed and used to the manufactuers instructions and you've done your risk assessment and provided the correct training and levels of control / supervision, I can't see the level of risk differing much from your lifts already in use.
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At the risk of trying to teach you to suck eggs have you got a copy of Health and safety in motor vehicle repair and associated industries
which contains the following guidance Single-post mini-lifts 200 Single-post mini-lifts, as in Figure 54, should be treated in the same way as vehicle jacks, ie access should not be allowed beneath the lifted vehicle unless supplemented by suitable supports such as props (see paragraphs 207-210).
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