Does "Subpart C - Cargo Handling Gear and Equipment" Apply to You?

Subpart C provides the standards for cargo handling gear and equipment. Do employees use powered industrial trucks? Do employees use cranes or derricks? Do employees use vehicles at the worksite? Do employees use winches, conveyors, and/or hand tools? If you answered yes to any of these questions, click on the appropriate tab below to see if the requirements apply to you. 

This subpart also provides the standards for house falls, miscellaneous auxiliary equipment (i.e., wire rope, wire rope slings, synthetic rope, natural fiber rope, synthetic web slings, chains, chain slings, shackles, pallets), load indicating devices, spouts, chutes, hoppers, bins, and associated equipment (i.e., power shovels, power supplies), and certification of marine terminal material handling devices (reference mandatory appendix I).

House falls - spans and supporting members, winches, blocks, and standing and running rigging forming part of a marine terminal and used with a vessel's cargo gear to load or unload by means of married falls. 

Additional information can be found on the safety and health topics page for materials handling and storage, hoists and amputations.

Subpart C - Cargo Handling Gear and Equipment

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If yes, then the standard on powered industrial trucks applies to you. It applies to every type of powered industrial truck used for material or equipment handling within a marine terminal. It does not apply to over-the-road vehicles. It provides requirements related to forklift trucks, maintenance, overhead guards, approved trucks, lifting employees, bulk cargo-moving vehicles, straddle trucks, and trailer-spotting tractors.

If you use powered industrial trucks, per scope and applicability, paragraph (a)(2)(xiv) - powered industrial truck operator training, you should also reference the general industry standard for powered industrial trucks, paragraph (l) - operator training. 

Additional information can be found on the safety and health topics page for powered industrial trucks and amputations.

If yes, then you need to comply with general rules applicable to vehicles as it applies to general vehicle use within marine terminals. This standard provides requirements for trailers, signs, vehicle routes, distance between vehicles, and unattended vehicles. It also provides requirements pertaining to servicing multi-piece and single piece rim wheels which includes employee training, servicing procedures, charts and manuals, restraining devices, and other equipment. 

Exception: Provisions of paragraph (c) "Trailers shall not be disconnected from tractors at loading docks until the road wheels have been immobilized. The road wheels shall be immobilized from the time the brake system is disconnected until braking is again provided. Supplementary front-end support shall be employed as necessary to prevent tipping when a trailer is entered by a material handling vehicle. Rear end support shall be employed if rear wheels are so far forward as to allow tipping when the trailer is entered." and paragraph (l) "Only highway vehicle floors in safe condition shall be used." do not apply when preempted by applicable regulations of the Department of Transportation (DOT) "49 CFR Part 393, Subpart C - Brakes, address the immobilization of trailer road wheels prior to disconnection of the trailer and until braking is again provided. Section 49 CFR 393.84 addresses the condition of flooring. These DOT rules apply when the motor carrier is engaged in interstate commerce or in the transport of certain hazardous items wholly within a municipality or the commercial zone thereof."

If yes, then cranes and derricks applies to you. It applies to every kind of crane and derrick and to any other type of equipment performing the functions of a crane or derrick. It does not apply to small industrial truck-type cranes, container handling top-loaders and sideloaders, chain hoists, and mobile straddle-type cranes incapable of straddling two or more intermodal containers (16 feet (4.88 m) in width). This standard includes the requirements pertaining to ratings, radius indicators, prohibited usage, outriggers, protective devices, operating controls, booms, foot pedals, operator's station, counterweights, fire extinguishers, exhaust gases, brakes, rail-mounted cranes, stabilizing locomotive cranes, operations, power-lines, protection for employees being hoisted, and routine inspections.

This standard also references complying with certification of marine terminal material handling devices. Additional information can be found on the safety and health topics pages for cranes and derricks and hoists.

If yes, then you need to comply with the standard on winches. The standard requires guarding of moving parts, accessible stop controls, use of limit switches, and that the provisions of cranes and derricks, paragraph (f)(11) applies to winches.

Additional information can be found on the safety and health topic page for amputations

If yes, then the standard on conveyors applies to you.  This standard provides requirements for guarding, securing of moving parts, braking, stability, emergency stop devices, loading and unloading, starting powered conveyors, lockout/tagout, and safe practices.

Additional information can be found on the safety and health topic page for amputations

If yes, then you need to comply with the standard on hand tools. It provides for tools to be maintained in safe operating condition, use of cutting tools and circular saws and electric tools being equipped with switches. 

Additional information can be found on the safety and health topic page for amputations