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Machinery and Work Equipment

  • 2025

    Code of Practice: Safe Use of Industrial Trucks

    This Code of Practice provides practical guidance as to the observance of the provisions of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 with regard to the use of industrial trucks in workplaces. It sets out the basic roles and responsibilities of those who have duties in relation to ensuring the safe operation of industrial trucks and the training of industrial truck operators. It supersedes and replaces the 2001 Code of Practice, Code of Practice: Rideroperated lift trucks: operator training, published under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 1989.

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  • 2015

    Guidelines on the Safety of Powered Gates

    The purpose of this guidance is to assist those who have any responsibility for the specification, design, manufacture, purchase, installation, maintenance, inspection or use of powered gates.

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  • 2002

    Code of Practice for Rider-Operated Lift Trucks: Operator Training and Supplementary Guidance

    This Code of Practice contains detailed guidance about all areas of training forklift truck drivers.

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