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Motor Vehicles & Heavy Equipment Safety
How to stay alive around motor vehicles and heavy construction equipment: the struck-by and caught-between hazards that cause most equipment fatalities, the safety…
OSHA
Motor Vehicles & Heavy Equipment Safety
What you’ll learn
By the end of this course.
Recognize the struck-by and caught-between hazards of motor vehicles and heavy equipment and the blind spots that drive them — 1926.601(b)(4)
Block or crib suspended machinery/parts and fully lower or block blades, buckets, and dump bodies before working on or leaving equipment — 1926.600(a)(3)
Identify the required safety equipment on jobsite motor vehicles (brakes, safety glass, audible warning device, seat belts, lights) — 1926.601(b)
Explain the obstructed-rear-view rule: a reverse-signal alarm audible above surrounding noise, or an observer who signals it is safe to back — 1926.601(b)(4), 1926.602(a)(9)
Identify the required protections on earthmoving equipment: seat belts, rollover protective structures, service brakes, fenders above 15 mph, and horns on bidirectional machines — 1926.602(a)
Describe pile-driving and site-clearing protections, including overhead protection, hammer blocking, and rollover/canopy guards — 1926.603(a), 1926.604(a)
References & standards
Grounded in the source material.
- 29 CFR 1926 Subpart O — Motor Vehicles, Mechanized Equipment, and Marine Operations
- 1926.600 — Equipment (general requirements)
- 1926.601 — Motor vehicles
- 1926.602 — Material handling equipment (earthmoving)
- 1926.603 — Pile driving equipment
- 1926.604 — Site clearing
This is awareness training. It supports your program; it is not a substitute for site-specific procedures or hands-on competency where a standard requires it.
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