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Safety
Tips and recommendations
It is necessary to observe the safety notes written in
these operating instructions in order to reduce the risk of
personal injuries and damages to property.
2.2 Obligations of the operating company
The operating company is the person who operates the
vacuum cleaner for business or commercial reasons by
herself, or leaves it to a third party for use or application,
and who bears the legal product responsibility for the
protection of the user, the staff or for third parties.
Obligations of the operating company:
If the vacuum cleaner is used for commercial purposes,
the operating company of the vacuum cleaner must com-
ply with the legal working safety regulations. There-fore,
the safety notes in this operating manual, as well as the
safety, accident prevention and environment protec-tion
regulations applying for the area of application of the va-
cuum cleaner must be met. The following applies in parti-
cular:
During the entire lifetime the vacuum cleaner, the opera-
ting company must verify whether the opera-ting ma-
nuals prepared by her correspond to the current status of
the regulations, and must adapt these if necessary.
- The operating company must be informed about
the applying industrial safety regulations and fur-
ther analyse hazards resulting from the special
working conditions at the place of use of the vac-
uum cleaner. She must implement these in form of
operating manuals for the operation of the vacuum
cleaner.
- The operating company must unambiguously re-
gulate and determine the responsibilities for instal-
lation, operation, troubleshooting, maintenance
and cleaning.
- The operating company must ensure that all per-
sons who work with the vacuum cleaner, have read
and understood this manual. Furthermore she
must instruct the staff in regular intervals and in-
form them about the hazards.
- The operator must provide the necessary protec-
tive equipment to the staff and order the use of the
necessary protective equipment in a binding way.
Furthermore the operating company is responsible to
keep the vacuum cleaner always in a technically fla-
wless state. Thus, the following applies:
- The operator must ensure that the maintenance in-
tervals described in this manual are kept.
- The operator must have all safety devices chec-
ked regularly for their good working order and their
integrity.
2.3 Requirements to staff
The different tasks described in this manual represent
different requirements to the qualification of the persons
entrusted with these tasks.
CAUTION!
This combination of symbol and signal words indi-
cates a potentially dangerous situation which may
lead to slight or minor injury if not avoided.
ATTENTION!
This combination of symbol and signal words indi-
cates a possibly dangerous situation which may lead
to property and environmental damages if they are
not avoided.
NOTE!
This combination of symbol and signal words indi-cates
a potentially dangerous situation which may lead to
material or environmental damage if not avoided.
Tips and recommendations
This symbol highlights useful tips and recommenda-
tions as well as information for an efficient and trou-
ble-free operation.
WARNING!
Danger in case of insufficient quali-
fication of the staff!
Insufficiently qualified persons cannot estimate the
risks while using the vacuum cleaner and expose
themselves and others to the danger of severe or let-
hal injuries.
- Have all works only performed by qualified per-
sons.
- Keep insufficiently qualified persons out of the wor-
king area.
