Climbing Up to Back-of-Cab
Warning: Wet or dirty shoe soles greatly increase the chance of slipping or falling. If your soles are wet or dirty, be especially careful when climbing onto, or leaving, the back-of-cab area.
Always maintain three-point contact with the back-of-cab access supports while entering and exiting the back-of-cab area. Three-point contact means both feet and one hand, or both hands and one foot, on the grab handles, steps, and deck plates. Other areas are not meant to support back-of-cab access, and grabbing or stepping in the wrong place could lead to a fall, and personal injury.
Be careful not to get hands or feet tangled in hoses or other back-of-cab equipment. Carelessness could cause a person to trip and fall, with possible injury.
When climbing onto the deck plate, do the following:
- Grasp the sidewall grab handle with both hands. Reach up as far as is comfortable.
- Place one foot on the bottom step and pull yourself up.
- Place your other foot on the top step.
- Move your lower hand to a higher position on the grab handle.
- Step onto the deck plate.