Safe Use of Quick Hitches on Excavators – Best Practice Guidance

Guidance on the factors of incorrect fitment of attachments using a quick-hitch coupler.

Because of continued fatalities, serious injuries and near hits involving the unsafe use of quick hitches, this guidance on the safe use of quick hitches was produced and clarifies issues concerning safe use of quick hitches, recognising that employers have their own safe systems of work for the use of quick hitches.

It is recommended that all employers use the guidance as a check list to review their own procedures.