OSHA Safety Standards
KEEPING INDUSTRIAL HAZARDS AT BAY
Priority Applicable Standards
These are (OSHA, 2015):
Eye and Face Protection 1910.133 -- the employer is obliged to provide employees with suitable protection for eyes and faces when they expose themselves to certain hazards. These include flying particles, melted metals, liquid chemicals, acids and other acidic liquids, chemical gases or fumes, and possible damaging light radiation. Detachable side protectors shall be provided to protect them from hazards from flying objects. Those wearing prescription lenses shall also incorporate the lens prescription in its design. Filter lenses shall also be provided to protect from possible injuries from light radiation
Head Protection 1910.135 -- employees working in areas exposed to head injuries shall be provided with protective helmets. These helmets shall reduce the impact of the electrical shock hazard when they get close to electrical conductors. These head protective coverings shall be designed according to consensus standards of the American National Standards Institute.
3. Personal Protective Equipment 1910.136 -- The employer shall provide protective footwear to employees working in areas, which expose them to foot injuries. These injuries may be caused by falling or rolling objects and objects that can cut the feet. These footwear shall also protect them from electrical hazard. They shall comply with consensus standards.
4. Personal Protective Equipment 1910.138 -- this provides for appropriate hand protection for employees whose hands are exposed to hazards to which the hands are vulnerable. These include harmful substances, serious cuts and abrasions, punctures, chemical burns, thermal burns, and extremes in temperature. This hand protection shall be selected according to the tasks to be performed with its use, the conditions accompanying...
Powered Industrial Trucks 1910.176 -- this provides for fire protection and the design, maintenance and use of fork trucks, tractors, platform lift trucks, motorized hand trucks, and other electrically motorized industrial trucks and internal combustion engines. The location shall also be categorized as either hazardous or non-hazardous before industrial trucks are used as well as the type of industrial trucks.
6. Materials Handling and Storage 1910.180 -- this covers crawler cranes, locomotive cranes, wheel mounted cranes of the truck and self-propelled wheel types and similar ones. It covers only cranes powered by internal combustion engines or electric motors. The section specifically applies to machines used in lifting cranes.
7. General Requirements for All Machines 1910.212 -- Guarding methods shall be provided to protect employees from dangers due to point of operation, i-going nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks. Barrier guards, two-hand tripping devices, electronic safety devices are examples. Special tools shall also be provided for easy handling of material so that the operator need not stick his hand in the danger zone.
8. Mechanical Power Transmission Apparatus 1910.219 -- this covers all types of belts for employees working within 250 feet or less per minute. Textile workers are especially exposed to excess deposits of lint, which often present as a serious fire hazard. They shall be provided with ni-point belt and pulley guards to protect the side of their faces only when they move 6 inches beyond the end of the pulley or 2 inches from the edge and face of the pulley.
9. Slings 1910.184 -- these shall be provided along with other material handling equipment in hoisting materials. Slings shall be made of alloy steel chain, wire rope, metal mesh,…
