OSHA’s Top 10 List and How to Stay Off It: Part 2

Lockout/Tagout (29 CFR 1910.147)

Tips for staying in compliance with the lockout/tagout standard include:

• Develop a written energy control program that includes specific procedures for lockout/tagout.
• Train authorized, affected, and other employees commensurate with their level of involvement with lockout/tagout, as required by the standard.
• Make sure appropriate lockout devices and tags are available.
• Inspect lockout/tagout procedures at least annually to ensure that the requirements of the standard are being met.
• Account for special situations in your energy control program, such as transfer of lockout during shift changes, contractors performing lockouts, and group lockouts.

Machine Guarding (29 CFR 1910 Subpart O)

Tips for staying in compliance with OSHA’s machine guarding requirements include:

• Make sure safeguards are provided on all machines with hazards created by point of operation, ingoing nip points, rotating parts, and flying chips or sparks.
• Train employees to work safely with guards, and make sure they understand that they may never remove or disable a guard, nor should they use a machine with a missing or inoperative guard.
• Guards should be affixed to the machine or otherwise secured if it is impossible to affix the guard to the machine itself.
• Guards may not be so constructed or affixed as to cause additional hazards.

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OSHA recommends that machine guards:

• Prevent workers’ hands, arms, and other body parts from making contact with dangerous moving parts.
• Ensure that no object will fall into the moving parts.
• Permit safe, comfortable, and relatively easy operation of the machine.
• Allow the machine to be oiled without removing the guard.
• Provide a system for shutting down the machinery before guards are removed.

Powered Industrial Trucks (29 CFR 1910.178)

Tips for staying in compliance with the powered industrial truck standard include:

• New trucks must meet the design requirements of ANSI B56.1.
• Only trained and authorized employees may operate powered industrial trucks.
• Operators must be fully trained and evaluated as competent in safe operation according to the requirements in paragraph 178(l)
• You must certify in writing that operators have been trained and evaluated.
• Operator performance must be reevaluated at least once every 3 years.
• Operators must be retrained if performance is deficient.
• Operators must follow the safe operating requirements in paragraph 178(m) of the standard.

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