Ezgo TXT 2002, Owner'S Manual & Service Manual

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SAFETY INFORMATION
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GENERAL
The following text is provided as recommended by part II of
American National Standards Institute/National Golf Car
Manufacturers Association (ANSI/NGCMA) Z130.1 - 1993.
The manufacturer, as a member of the 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 ter-
rain 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 manuals to encourage safe operations and prac-
tices at the controlling party’s facility.
5.2. Safety Survey
The controlling party shall perform a safety survey peri-
odically, 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
hazard 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
operators not to operate golf cars in this area due to
loose terrain 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 traf-
fic 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 pedes-
trian traffic and to drive slowly and use extreme caution.