SAFETY
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Repair and Service Manual
Read all of Section A and this section before attempting any procedure. Pay particular attention to all Notices, Cautions and Warnings.
GENERAL
The following text is provided as recommended by part II
of ANSI / NGCMA Z130.1 - 1993. The manufacturer, as
a member of the National Golf Car Manufacturers Asso-
ciation (NGCMA), strongly endorses the contents of this
specification.
PART II
MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS
5.
GENERAL SAFETY PRACTICES
5.1.
Introduction
Like other machines, golf cars can cause injury if improp-
erly used or maintained. This section contains broad
safety practices recommended for safe golf car opera-
tions. Before operation, the controlling party should
establish such additional specific safety practices as may
be reasonably required for safe operations.
Experience has shown that golf cars which comply with
the provisions stated in Part II of this Standard are safe
when properly operated in accordance with the safety
and operation warnings affixed to every golf car. The safe
operation is enhanced when the golf cars are operated
within a specific set of operation instructions, safety rules
and practices established to meet actual operating terrain
and conditions.
The safety information contained in Part II is intended to
provide the controlling party with basic safety information
and to encourage the controlling party to implement a golf
car safety program.
It is suggested and recommended that Part II be reprinted
in the golf car manufacturer’s operation and service man-
uals to encourage safe operations and practices at the
controlling party’s facility.
5.2.
Safety Survey
The controlling party shall perform a safety survey period-
ically, and as conditions warrant to their premises, to
identify areas where golf cars should not be operated and
to identify possible hazards.
5.2.1. Steep Grade
In areas where steep grades exist, golf car operations
should be restricted to the designated golf car pathways
where possible, and shall be identified with a suitable
warning giving the following information: “Warning, steep
grade, descend slowly with one foot on brake.”
5.2.2. Wet Areas
Wet grassy areas may cause a golf car to lose traction
and may affect stability. Wet areas shall be chained or
roped off to prevent golf car operations or be identified by
a suitable warning not to operate golf cars in this area due
to wet terrain.
5.2.3. Sharp Turns, Blind Corners, Bridge
Approaches
Sharp turns, blind spots, bridge approaches and other
potentially hazardous areas shall be either chained or
roped off to prevent golf car operations or identified with a
suitable warning to the operator of the nature of the haz-
ard and stating the proper precautions to be taken to
avoid the hazard.
5.2.4. Loose Terrain
Loose terrain may cause a golf car to lose traction and
may affect stability. Areas of loose terrain should be
repaired if possible, or chained or roped off to prevent golf
car operation or identified by a suitable warning to opera-
tors not to operate golf cars in this area due to loose ter-
rain or possible hazardous conditions.
5.2.5. Golf Car/Pedestrian Interference Areas
Areas where pedestrians and golf cars interfere shall be
avoided whenever possible by rerouting the golf car traffic
or the pedestrian traffic to eliminate the interference. If
elimination of the interference is not possible or is highly
impractical, signs shall be erected warning pedestrians of
the golf car traffic and golf car operators of the pedestrian
traffic and to drive slowly and use extreme caution.
