Komatsu Safety Operation Manual (EN)

FOREWORD

. FOREWORD FOREWORD rules and guidelines which will help you use this machine safely and effectively. The manual must be performing operation and maintenance. Most by the failure to rules for the operation and maintenance of can be prevented conditions that may cause a hazard when WARNING understand them fully. periodically. 1 - 2 FOREWORD This manual provide recautions in this ccident s are cause machines.

Accident erforming operation ed at all times ow fundament al safet forehan Operators and mainten ance personnel must alwa ys do as follows before b eginning operation or m Alway s be sure to re ad and understand this m anual thoroughly before performing operation an Read t he safety mes sages given in this manua l and the safety labels aff ixed to the machine thor oughly and be sure that eep this manual at the storage location for the Operation and Ma intenanc e Manual given below, a nd have all personnel re f this manual has been lost or has become dirty and cannot be re ad, requ est a replacement manua l immediately from Kom r your K omatsu distri f you sell the machine, be sure to give this manu al to the new ow ners together omatsu delivers mach ines that comply with all a pplicable regulati ons and standards of the country to which it has been ship f this machine has bee n purchased in another co untry or purchas ed from s omeone in another coun try, it may lack certain s evices a nd specificati ons that are necessary f or use in your c ountry.

I f there is any question about whether your pro omplies with the appl icable standards and regu lations of your c ountry, consult Komatsu or you r Komatsu distributor b perating the machine. Storage locatio n for the Operation and Maintenance M Pocket (1) a t rear of operator's sea

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SAFETY INFORMATION

. FOREWORD SAFETY INFORMATION Signal words Indicates an imminently hazardous situation which, if not avoided, will result in death or serious injury. Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in death or serious injury.

Indicates a WARNING to indicate precautions that should be followed to 1 - 5 SAFETY INFORMATIO To enab le you t o use t his machine s afely, safe ty precautions a nd labels are g iven in t his manual and affi xed to the machine giv such situation The ord persona l injury or damage In this m anual a nd on machine labe ls, the following signal wor ds are used to express th e potentia l level of hazard potentially hazardous situ ation which, if not avoide d, may re sult in minor or jury. This word is used als o to alert agai nst unsafe practices that m ay cause mage.

Example of safety message u sing signa When sta nding up from t he o perator's s eat, always place the safety lo ck lever in the L OCK positio n. If y ou acc identally touch the control lev ers when th ey are not locked, this may cause a serious injury or deat Other sig nal word In additi on to th e above, t he follow ing signal word s are used protect t he machine o r to give infor mation that is useful to kno is word is used for p recautions that must be taken to avoid actions whi ch coul d shorten life of th e machine. is word is used for in formation that i s useful to kno

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SAFETY INFORMATION

. FOREWORD SAFETY INFORMATION Safety labels Example of safety label using words 1 - 6 Safety labels are af fixed to the machine to inform th e operator or maintenan ce worker on the sp ot when carrying out operation or mainte nance of the machine that may involve hazard . This machine uses "Safety labels using words" and "Safety labels using pi ctograms" to indicat e safety procedures. Safety labels using pi ctogram use a picture to express a level of hazardous t to the signal word. These safety pictograms Safety pictograms condition equivalen fety pictograms use pictures in ord er to let the operator or maint enance worker understand the lev el and type of hazardous condit ion at all times.

Safety pictograms s how the type of hazardous con dition at the top or left side, and the method of avoiding the hazard ous condition at the bottom or right s ide. In addition, the type of haza rdous condition is displayed inside a triangle and the method n is shown inside a circle. of avoiding the hazardous conditio potentia aintenance. Therefore, the safet y messages in this manual and on the machine may no t include a ll possibl e safety precautions. If any proceduresor actions not specifically recomm endedor allowed in this manual ar e used, it is your r esponsibility to take the necessa ry steps to ensure safety.

In no event should you engage in prohibited uses or actions described in this manua The explanations, v alues, and illustrations in this manual were prepared b ased on th e latest i nformation available at that time. Contin uing improvements in the des ign of this machine can lead to ch anges in detail which may not be reflected in this manual. Consult Komatsu or yo ur Komatsu distributor f or the lates t availabl e information of y our machine or for que stions regarding information in this manual. The numbers in cir cles in the illustrations correspo nd to the numbers in ( ) in the tex t. (For e xample: 1 -> (1)

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FRONT/REAR, LEFT/RIGHT DIRECTIONS OF MACHINE

. FOREWORD INTRODUCTION FRONT/REAR, LEFT/RIGHT DIRECTIONS OF MACHINE 1 - 7 INTRODUCTION This Komatsu m achine is designed to be used m ainly for the following work: Digging work Smoothing Pushing work Loading work For details of th e operating procedure , see "WORK POS SIBLE USING WHEEL LOADER (PAGE 3-97)". In this manual, the directions of the m achine (fro nt, rear, left, right) are determined according to the view from the operator's seat in the direction of trav el (front) of the mac hine.

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