Moving heavy battery packs so more engine hoists (or similar)

Talk to the local brigade about fire fighting techniques as battery fires can be way beyond normal extinguishers

Consider how you move the vehicle - in some a dead battery (so disconnected for maintenace) and the drive motors are stopped (no free wheeling as with a combustion engine) - motoring organisations should be able to give pointers

Thanks for your reply. The issues that I am after are when repairs are carried out in the workshop. The fire aspect has been solved as a seperate enclosure will be built. The handling of batteries will be oviously by trained personnel with the right equipment. The issue is what kind of flooring is required, kit used for repair what rating does it needs to be etc.. 

You might want to have a broader search towards the transport industry for some of the wider safety related issues. AFAIR, there was discussion about there being 2 techs always on avehicle at a time and the tech basically can decide not towork if they have any welfare or other issues as there is a very high demand for attention to operational safety soif they are distracted  forany reason then they don't work on an commercial EV vehicle.    I don't recall too much about flooring types apart from aiming for the better type finish rather than a bit of rough concrete screed.I'veseenn EV bus workshop and the floor was visibly nicefinish but otherwise unremarkable

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