Motor Vehicles, Mechanized Equipment, and Marine Operations

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Motor Vehicles, Mechanized Equipment, and Marine
Operations

• 29 CFR Part 1926 Subpart O

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Objectives

• During this presentation, we will discuss the
  following
• OSHAs minimum requirements for powered
  industrial trucks, motor vehicles and other
  equipment
• Safe operation of equipment
• Operator training
• Hazard identification
• Abatement methods

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Powered Industrial Trucks, Other Vehicles and
Equipment

• 1926.600 Equipment
• 1926.601 Motor vehicles
• 1926.602 Material handling equipment
• 1926.603 Pile driving equipment
• 1926.604 Site clearing
• 1926.605 Marine operations and equipment
• 1926.606 Definitions
• 1910.178(l) Powered industrial trucks operator
  training

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Equipment
1926.600(a)(1)

• General requirements
• Unattended equipment near highways or active
  construction areas must have lights, reflectors,
  or barricades to identify location of equipment.

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General Requirements
1926.600(a)(2)

• Safety tire rack or cage used for inflating,
  mounting, or dismounting tires with split rims or
  locking rings.

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General Requirements
1926.600(a)(3)(i)

• Suspended equipment must be blocked or cribbed
  before employees are permitted to work underneath.

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General Requirements
1926.600(a)(3)(i)

• Bulldozer and scrapers blades, end-loader
  buckets, dump bodies, and similar equipment must
  be fully lowered or blocked during repair or when
  not in use.
• Controls set in neutral, brakes set, motors
  stopped.

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General Requirements
1926.600(a)(3)(ii), (5)

• Parking brake set when not in use.
• Chocked wheels if on incline.
• Cab glass must be safety glass or equivalent no
  distortion affecting safe operation.

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General Requirements
1926.600(a)(6)

• Compliance with 1926.550(a)(15) in vicinity of
  power lines or energized transmitters.
• Minimum clearance
• 50 kV. or below 10 feet
• Over 50 kV. 10 feet 0.4 in./1 kV. over 50 kV.
• In transit (with no load) 4 feet lt50 kV. 10 ft.
  50 kV. 345 kV. 16 ft. 345 kV. 750 kV.
• Person designated to observe clearance
• Overhead wire considered energized until
• Owner or power company indicates otherwise
• Visibly grounded

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Are there any problems here?
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General Requirements
1926.600(a)(7)

• Derail and/or bumper blocks must be provided
  where a rolling railroad car could contact other
  cars being worked, enter a building, work or
  traffic area.

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Motor Vehicles
1926.601(b)(1)

• General requirements
• Vehicles must have a service brake, emergency
  brake, and parking brake system.
• Maintained in operable condition.

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General Requirements
1926.601(b)(2)(i)-(ii)

• Two headlights and two taillights where required.
• Brake lights in operable condition.

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General Requirements
1926.601(b)(3)

• All vehicles must be equipped with audible
  warning device (horn) at operators station.
• Must be in operable condition.

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General Requirements
1926.601(a)(4)(i)-(ii)

• Any vehicle with an obstructed view to the rear
• Backup alarm, or
• Observer signals its safe.

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General Requirements
1926.601(b)(5)

• Vehicles with cabs must have windshield wipers.
• Cracked or broken glass must be replaced.

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General Requirements
1926.601(b)(6)

• Haulage vehicles loaded by cranes, power shovels,
  loaders, etc. must have a cab shield and/or
  canopy to protect operator from falling materials.

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General Requirements
1926.601(b)(7)-(9), (13)

• Tools and material must be secured if in employee
  compartment
• Adequate number of seats for employees
• Seat belts must be installed
• Rubber tired vehicles after May 1, 1972 must be
  equipped with fenders
• Mud flaps in lieu of fenders for equipment not
  designed for fenders

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General Requirements
1926.601(b)(10)-(12)

• Trucks with dump bodies equipped with device to
  prevent lowering during maintenance.
• Operating controls for dump
• or hoisting equipped with
• latch to prevent tripping.
• Trip handles for tailgates
• arranged to keep employee
• in clear during dumping.

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General Requirements
1926.600(b)(14)

• All vehicles checked at beginning of shift to
  ensure equipment/accessories in safe operating
  condition and free from damage.

• Horn
• Steering
• Coupling devices
• Brakes
• Seat belts
• Operating controls

• Safety devices
• Lights
• Reflectors
• Windshield wipers
• Defoggers/defrosters
• Fire extinguishers

• Defects corrected before equipment is used.

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Earthmoving Equipment
1926.602(a)(1)

• General requirements
• Scrapers
• Loaders
• Crawler or wheel tractors
• Bulldozers
• Off-highway trucks
• Graders
• Agricultural and industrial tractors
• Similar equipment

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General Requirements
1926.602(a)(2)(i)

• Seat belts required for all equipment except
• Stand-up operation equipment
• Equipment without rollover protection ROPS or
  adequate canopy protection

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General Requirements
1926.602(a)(3)(i)

• No equipment to move on access roadway or grade
  unless constructed and maintained to safely
  accommodate such equipment.

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General Requirements
1926.602(a)(4)

• Service braking system capable of stopping and
  holding equipment when fully loaded.

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General Requirements
1926.602(a)(9)-(10)

• Horn audible alarm on bidirectional machines.
• Backup alarm or signaling employee.
• Scissor points, where hazard to operator, must be
  guarded on front-end loaders.

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Excavating and Other Equipment
1926.602(b)(1)

• Tractors covered in paragraph (a) must have seat
  belts as required for the operator.
• i.e., Agricultural and industrial tractors, and
  similar equipment

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Excavating and Other Equipment
1926.602(b)(1)

• Earthmoving equipment must have seat belts.
• Must meet requirements of Society of Automotive
  Engineers, J386-1969, Seat Belts for Construction
  Equipment.
• Seat belts not required on equipment which does
  not have ROPS.

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Lifting and Hauling Equipment
1926.602(c)(1)

• Industrial trucks must meet requirements of 29
  CFR 1926.600

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Lifting and Hauling Equipment
1926.602(c)(1)(i)

• Rated capacity (including alternate capacities
  for removable counterweights) clearly posted for
  operator.
• Ratings must not be exceeded.

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Lifting and Hauling Equipment
1926.602(c)(1)(i)

• Vehicle capacity
• Only handle loads within trucks capacity
• Capacity found on name plate

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Lifting and Hauling Equipment
1926.602(c)(1)(ii)

• Modifications and additions which affect capacity
  and safe operation must have prior written
  approval from manufacturer.
• Capacity, tags, or decals must be changed
  accordingly.

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Lifting and Hauling Equipment
1926.602(c)(1)(iii)

• Loads lifted by two or more trucks in unison.
• Proportion of total load carried by any one truck
  must not exceed its capacity.

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Lifting and Hauling Equipment
1926.602(c)(1)(iv)

• Steering or spinner knobs must not be attached to
  steering wheel unless steering mechanism prevents
  road reactions power steering.
• Steering knob mounted
• within periphery of wheel.

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Lifting and Hauling Equipment
1926.602(c)(1)(v)

• High lift rider trucks must be equipped with
  overhead guards complying with ANSI B56.1-1969.

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Lifting and Hauling Equipment
1926.602(c)(1)(vii)

• No unauthorized riders.
• Safe place to ride for authorized riders.

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Lifting and Hauling Equipment
1926.602(c)(1)(viii)

• Vertical only, or vertical and horizontal
  controls, elevatable with the lifting carriage or
  forks for lifting personnel
• Use of safety platform firmly secured to lifting
  carriage/forks
• Personnel on platform
• can shut off power
• Falling objects protection

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Powered Industrial Truck Training
1926.602(d)

• Operator training complying with 1910.178(l)
• Competency after completion of training and
  evaluation.
• Training required unless previously trained.
• Trainees may only operate equipment
• Under direct supervision of trainer
• Where no danger to trainee or other employees

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Powered Industrial Truck Training
1910.178(l)

• Training program content
• Truck-related topics
• Workplace-related topics

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Operator Training
1910.178(l)(3)(i)

• Truck-related topics

• Vehicle capacity and stability
• Vehicle inspection and maintenance that the
  operator will be required to perform
• Refueling/charging/recharging batteries
• Operating limitations
• Other instructions, etc.

• Differences from automobile
• Operating instructions, warnings and precautions
• Controls and instrumentation
• Engine or motor operation
• Steering and maneuvering
• Visibility
• Fork and attachment adaptation, operation, use

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Operator Training
1910.178(l)(3)(ii)

• Workplace-related topics

• Surface conditions
• Composition and stability of loads
• Load manipulation, stacking, unstacking
• Pedestrian traffic
• Narrow aisles and restricted areas
• Operating in hazardous (classified) locations

• Operating on ramps and sloped surfaces
• Potentially hazardous environmental conditions
• Operating in closed environments or other areas
  where poor ventilation or maintenance could cause
  carbon monoxide or diesel exhaust buildup

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Powered Industrial Truck Training
1910.178(l)(4)

• Operating training complying with 1910.178(l)
• Re-evaluation every 3 years.
• Refresher training where evaluation,
  observation, or accident reveals need.
• Certification that operator
• has been trained.

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Pile Driving Equipment
1926.603(a) (c)

• General requirements
• Overhead protection must not obscure the vision
  of the operator.
• Stability of pile driver rigs must be maintained.
• Engineers and winchmen must accept signals only
  from designated signalmen.
• Employees must keep clear of piling
• being hoisted.

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Site Clearing
1926.604(a)(1)

• General requirements
• Employees engaged in site clearing must be
  protected from hazards of irritant and toxic
  plants.
• Instructed in the first aid treatment available.

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General Requirements
1926.603(a)(2)(i)-(ii)

• Equipment must be equipped with rollover guards.
• Overhead covering on canopy structure be at least
  ?? steel plate or ¼? woven wire mesh.
• Opening in rear of canopy covered with at least
  ¼? woven wire mesh.

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Marine Operations and Equipment
1926.605(b)(2)

• Where employees cannot step safely to or from the
  wharf, float, barge, or river towboat, a ramp or
  safe walkway must be provided.

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Marine Operations and Equipment
1926.605(c)(2)

• Decks and other working surfaces must be
  maintained in a safe condition.

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Marine Operations and Equipment
1926.605(c)(3)

• Safe passage must be provided for employees
  passing fore and aft, over, or around deckloads.

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Marine Operations and Equipment
1926.605(d)(2)

• Equipment required in vicinity of each barge
• One USCG-approved 30? life ring with not less
  than 90' of line attached.
• One portable or permanent ladder which will reach
  the top of the apron to the surface of the water.

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Marine Operations and Equipment
1926.605(d)(3)

• Employees walking or working on the unguarded
  decks of barges must wear USCG-approved work
  vests or buoyant vests.

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Marine Operations and Equipment
1926.605(e)

• Commercial diving operations must be subject to
  Subpart T of Part 1910.
• 1910.401-441

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Summary

• We have covered the following items during this
  presentation
• OSHAs minimum requirements for powered
  industrial trucks, motor vehicles and other
  equipment
• Safe operation of equipment
• Operator training
• Hazard identification
• Abatement methods

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Thank You For Attending!

• Final Questions?

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Handouts

• Place all handouts at the end of this
  presentation.