# DAMAGED EQUIPMENT

## Date:

**Job Name:**

*If you see*  
*damaged*  
*equipment, do*  
*not ignore it.*  
!

**Supervisor Signature:**

## Primary Potential Physical Hazards

*ñ* Falls from elevation  
*ñ* Struck by objects  
*ñ* Caught in-between objects  
*ñ* Electrical shock/electrocution

## Primary Exposure for Mechanical Construction Workers

*ñ* Use of damaged equipment, such as damaged ladders, chain falls, jacks, rigging equipment, generators, etc.  
*ñ* Failure to immediately remove damaged equipment from service  
*ñ* Failure to properly tag damaged equipment out of service so that no one else uses it

## Safe Work Practices

*ñ* Carefully inspect all your equipment each time before you use it.  
*ñ* Start by making sure there are no missing parts or pieces.  
*ñ* Know your companyís procedures for taking damaged/defective equipment out of service, including the protocol for attaching conspicuous damaged equipment warning tags to damaged equipment, and where to place the damaged items at the jobsite.  
*ñ* Look for broken, bent, cracked, burned, melted, charred, cut, abraded, torn, distorted, etc. parts and pieces.  
*ñ* When you come across damaged equipment, take it out of service immediately.  
*ñ* Watch for wear indicators, such as pronounced rounding of metal parts, red tracer yarn in some types of worn rigging slings, etc.  
*ñ* Make sure that anyone else who could come across the damaged equipment can quickly and easily determine that it should not be used or placed back into service by carefully following your companyís procedures for taking damaged/defective equipment out of service.

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Vol.25 | No.49 | Week of 12-08-25

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