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OSHA Guidelines for Off-Highway Equipment

1) Unattended equipment left overnight next to a highway must have appropriate lights or reflectors and barricades with lights or reflectors. 2) When working with split rims or tires equipped with locking rings, a tire rack, cage, or equivalent protection must be provided for inflating, mounting, or dismounting tires. 3) When not in use or being repaired, bulldozer and scraper blades, end-loader buckets, dump bodies, and other equipment must have their blades or buckets fully lowered and blocked.

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OSHA Guidelines for Off-Highway Equipment

1) Unattended equipment left overnight next to a highway must have appropriate lights or reflectors and barricades with lights or reflectors. 2) When working with split rims or tires equipped with locking rings, a tire rack, cage, or equivalent protection must be provided for inflating, mounting, or dismounting tires. 3) When not in use or being repaired, bulldozer and scraper blades, end-loader buckets, dump bodies, and other equipment must have their blades or buckets fully lowered and blocked.

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OSHA Subpart O

Motor Vehicles, Mechanized


Equipment, and Marine
Operations

Unattended equipment left


overnight next to a highway
Shall have
appropriate lights or reflectors
barricades with lights or reflectors to
communicate to others about the location..

Provide a tire rack, cage, or


equivalent protection
When working with a split rim or tires
equipped with locking rings
inflating tires
mounting tires
dismounting tires..

Bulldozer and scraper blades,


end-loader buckets, dump bodies,
etc.
When being repaired or when not in use
Fully lowered
Blocked ..

When equipment is parked,


Set the parking brake
Chock the wheels..

All Cab Glass


Shall be safety glass
Offer no visible distortion..

When operating off-highway


equipment where additional
light is needed,
Equipment must be equipped with at least,
two headlights
two taillights..

All off-highway equipment


shall be equipped with
An adequate audible warning device
that is in operable condition..

Off-highway equipment shall not


be operated with an obstructed
view to the rear unless
The vehicle has a reverse signal alarm
audible above the surrounding noise level
or
the vehicle is backed up with the use of a
signal person..

Off-highway equipment with


cabs shall be
equipped with windshields
equipped with powered wipers
Cracked glass must be replaced..

Off-highway hauling
equipment loaded with cranes,
shovels, loaders, etc.
Must have a cab shield and/or canopy to
protect the operator from shifting or falling
materials..

Off-highway equipment to
transport employees, shall have
A secured seat for each passenger
A seat belt for each seat ..

Pneumatic-tired earth-moving
haulage equipment (trucks,
scrapers, tractors, and trailing
units) whose maximum speed
exceeds 15 MPH shall be
equipped with fenders on all
wheels
Most pieces of equipment in operation
today need fenders..

Material Handling Equipment


(Scrapers, loaders, trucks, motor
graders, dozers, etc.)
Shall have seat belts
Seat belts not required if operated only in
the standup position
Seat belts not required if equipment does
not have ROPS..

Earthmoving or compacting
equipment with an obstructed
view to the rear is not
permitted, unless
It has an operational reverse signal alarm
or
A signal person to provide directions..

When Driving Piles in an


Excavation
Walls of the excavation to be sloped to the
angle of repose

When the tops of driven piles


are to be cut off
Suspend pile driving operations
or
Cutting can proceed while driving piles
provided that the pile driving operation is at
least 2 times the length of the longest pile
from the cutting operation

Marine Equipment (Barge) shall


have available or be supplied with
At least one U.S. Coast Guard approved 30inch lifering with at least 90 feet of line
At least one ladder to reach from the top of
the apron to the surface of the water..

Employees walking or working


on unguarded decks of barges
shall be protected with
U.S. Coast Guard approved work vests
or
Buoyant vests..

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