Each hand winch lift truck conforms to the generalized specifications disclosed in this manual and
fulfills our demanding standards for quality, safety and durability. This manual adopts relevant
provisions of ANSI/ITSDF standard B56.10-2006, “Safety Standard for Manually Propelled High Lift
Industrial Trucks”.
S
AFETY
P
RINCIPLES
Vestil Manufacturing Corp. recognizes the critical importance of workplace safety. Each person
who might participate in the assembly, use, inspection or maintenance of the product must read the
entire manual and fully understand the directions BEFORE assembling, using, inspecting or
maintaining the A-Lift. If you do not understand an instruction, contact Vestil for clarification.
Failure
to read and adhere to all of the directions in this manual prior to assembly, use, inspection or
maintenance is a misuse of the product and could lead to serious personal injury or death.
Vestil is
not liable
for any injury or property damage that occurs as a consequence of failing to
apply the safe operation and maintenance procedures explained in this manual or that appear on
labels affixed to the product. Similarly, failure to exercise good judgment and common sense may
result in property damage, serious personal injury, or death, and are
not the responsibility of Vestil
.
This manual applies the hazard identification methods recommended for instruction manuals by
the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in ANSI standard Z535.6-2006. In accordance with
ANSI guidelines, this manual identifies personal injury risks and situations that could lead to property
damage with SIGNAL WORDS. These signal words announce an associated safety message. The
reader must understand that the signal word chosen to identify a particular hazard conveys
information about the seriousness of that hazard according to the following convention:
Identifies a hazardous situation which, if not
avoided, WILL result in DEATH or SERIOUS INJURY. Use of this
signal word is limited to the most extreme situations.
These symbols
identify hazards
that may result in
personal injury
Identifies a hazardous situation which, if not
avoided, COULD result in DEATH or SERIOUS INJURY.
Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not
avoided, COULD result in MINOR or MODERATE injury.
Although
Z535.6-2006 approves the use of “CAUTION” without an
accompanying safety alert symbol (black equilateral triangle with
yellow exclamation point) as an alternative to “NOTICE”, this manual
differentiates between hazards that pose a risk of personal injury and
those that create mere property damage situations.
CAUTION
appears exclusively in conjunction with the safety alert symbol
to identify injury risks.
Identifies practices not related to personal injury, such as operation
that could damage the A-Lift. Note: No safety alert symbol (equilateral triangle with
an exclamation point inside) accompanies this signal word.
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