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For your safety
4.4
Authorised operating personnel – qualifications
and obligations
Your Generators is a complex machine, the operation and maintenance of
which requires exact knowledge of its functions and danger potentials.
Therefore any work with or on the device, of any kind, may only be per-
formed by authorised and instructed operating personnel.
Quite apart from the authorisation which the operating company of the de-
vice must issue, only such persons may operate or service the device who
fulfil the following criteria. They are designated in this operating manual as
operating personnel.
The authorised operating personnel must:
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be of age.
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be trained in First Aid and be able to provide it.
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be familiar with the accident prevention regulations and safety instructions
relevant to the Generators and be able to apply them.
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have read Chapter 4 , have understood the contents and are able to use and
implement them in practice.
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be trained and instructed according to the rules of conduct in the case of mal-
functions.
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have the physical and mental abilities to carry out their responsibilities, tasks,
and activities on the Generators.
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be trained and instructed in their responsibilities, tasks and activities on the
Generators.
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have understood the entire technical documentation concerning their respon-
sibilities, tasks and activities on the Generators and be able to implement
these in practice.
4.5
Danger zones and work areas
In order to be able to consider all of a machine's safety aspects and to com-
ply with the safety and health protection requirements of the applicable
standards and EU directives, we have assessed the use of your Generators
in all of the phases that it will go through during its product service life
(product life cycle). The following zones were defined on the Generators for
this purpose: The danger zones and work places (work areas) around the
generator are determined by the activities to be undertaken within the var-
ious phases in individual life cycles:
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Working zone:
In this zone on and around the Generators (approx. 1 metre
radius) the trained operating personnel (see Chapter 4.4 ) may operate and
inspect the device in compliance with all of the safety and operating instruc-
tions given in the technical documentation. All other people (especially mi-
nors and people with disabilities) must remain outside this working zone.
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Danger zone:
This zone must be kept free of all personnel during all phases
of use and service life of the device. Any work in this zone is only to be un-
dertaken by specially trained specialists if it is essential for the fulfilling of the
task and if all of the protective equipment (PPE) needed is used. You must
always comply with the following limits:
