OSHA Standards for Industrial Hazards Prevention and Control

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 the task, the length of time of use and the hazards to which the hands are exposed. 5. 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, natural or synthetic fiber rope, and synthetic web. 10. Flammable Liquids 1910.106 -- These liquids used as motor fuels shall be stored and given out from fixed equipment at the automotive service station into fuel tanks. Facilities for the sale and service of tires, batteries and accessories and minor automotive maintenance work shall be placed in this station. 11.

Storage and Handling of Liquefied Petroleum Gases 1910.110 -- Liquefied petroleum gas containers and flammable liquid tanks shall be separate at a minimum distance of 20 feet. That between a container and the centerline of the dike shall be 10 feet. All possible measures shall be taken to prevent flammable liquids near these liquefied petroleum gas containers shall be taken. These measures include diking, diversion curbs and grading. 12. Fire Protection 1910.155 -- this covers fire brigades and all portable and fixed fire suppression equipment, fire detection systems and fire alarm systems. 13.

Walking-Working Surfaces 1910.22 -- this covers all parts of the workplace but excluding those where domestic, mining and agricultural activities are performed. Provisions shall include covers and guardrails, floor-loading, and appropriate markings. 14. Means of Egress 1910.34 -- This provides for exits to all employees who may need to evacuate the place of work in an emergency. These exits shall be guided by emergency action and fire prevention plans as a minimum requirement. 15. Occupational Health and Environmental Control 1910 Subpart G -- This shall include ventilation, occupational noise exposure, and non-ionizing radiation.

Workers shall be protected from the disturbing or harmful effects of occupational noise when it exceeds certain levels according to an octave band analysis scheme (OSHA). Four Important Written Programs These are: 1. The API Blowout Prevention Equipment Systems for Drilling Operations 2. The API 54 Recommended Practice for Occupational Safety for Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing Operations 3. The API 67 Oilfield Explosives Safety 4. The API 74 Recommended Practices for Occupational Safety for Onshore Coil and Gas Production Operations.

Five Recommended Standards for Training Every drilling and servicing company, such as the Bubba's Materials Handling Equipment, Inc., should develop these planning and.