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Safety
Safety instructions
2.4 Safety instructions
2.4.1 General safety instructions
DANGER
Failure to observe safety notes!
Risk of death or injury.
u Observe local regulations, site rules, and safety notes.
u In doubt, immediately seek advice from a competent person (for example, safety officer,
supervisor).
The application owner must apply the following requirements:
– Before receiving the engine, the responsibilities and the definition of the safe conditions
have to be established by the application owner.
– Only trained and instructed operators expressly authorized to do so must install, operate,
maintain, or repair the engine and the application.
– Only allow operators who have been trained, instructed, or are present for training purposes,
to work on the engine or the application under constant supervision of an experienced
supervisor.
Organization commitments for the application owner:
– The Operation and Maintenance Manual of the engine has to be at the operator's disposal
until the commissioning of the application. Afterwards the Operation and Maintenance
Manual has to be a part of operator's manual of the manufacturer of the application.
– Familiarize yourself with the Operation and Maintenance Manual of the application before
commissioning the machine.
– Develop, document, implement, and enforce a safety and health program, adapted to the
application and its environment, and comply with the local regulations or at least with the
International Labour Organization Standards.
– Make sure that operators are conscious of safety and hazards involved in their work and that
they regularly check the Operation and Maintenance Manual of the application. This is espe‐
cially to be repeated for the operators which occasionally operate the application.
NOTICE
Risk of engine failure by use of non-compliant operating fluids!
Use of non-compliant operating fluids will lead to engine main failure.
u Use only operating fluids tested and approved by Kohler Co.
NOTICE
Risk of engine failure by use of non-original spare parts!
The use of original spare parts guarantees the compliance with the technical requirements
established by Kohler Co.
u Use only original spare parts approved by Kohler Co.
Lockout/tagout
Lockout/tagout is an isolation process that protects workers from exposure to the uninten‐
tional or inadvertent release of hazardous energy (electrical energy, mechanical potential
energy, etc.).
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