24.11.2015
Manitou launches Safe Man in Oz
Manitou has launched is Safe Man secondary guarding system in Australia, complete with automatic retract option.
The System which is now standard on all Manitou boom lifts in Europe, features a pressure sensitive switch across the front of the controls, when pressed for more than three seconds, the machine stops, a blue light flashes and a siren sounds. Then - if the function has been enabled - the machine will automatically retract the last function. When locked out, the lower controls remain operative for rescue purposes and if set off inadvertently it can be reset from the platform.
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The Manitou Safe Man System
The system can be retrofitted as well as ordered with a new machine and the also maintains a log all activations.
Vertikal Comment
This move shows how secondary guarding is spreading, now virtually standard equipment in the UK, it is rapidly becoming standard or an essential item in the rest of Europe and Australia. It can surely only be a matter of time before North America adopts it as well?
Eric L
North America ?
Maybe after they realize that slope systems are not just annoying buzzers, and overload systems likewise, then maybe we can talk secondary guarding.
But for the moment they are still struggling with moving in into they year 2000 safety system wise.