Does "Subpart G - Gear and Equipment for Rigging and Materials Handling" Apply to You?
Subpart G provides standards related to gear and equipment used for rigging and materials handling. Do employees use ropes, chains, and/or slings? Do employees use shackles and/or hooks? Do employees use chain falls and/or pull-lifts? Do employees use hoisting and/or hauling equipment (i.e., cranes, derricks, marine railways, mobile crawler or truck cranes used on a vessel)? Do employees use powered industrial trucks? If you said yes to any of these questions, then this subpart applies to you. Click on the appropriate tabs below for more information.
This subpart also provides general requirements pertaining to inspections (i.e., each shift, when necessary, removal of defective gear); use of gear (i.e., rigging, riding loads, signal codes, suspended loads, use of taglines, hatches), qualifications of operators (i.e., competent person, age requirements, signal codes, health), and tables (i.e., dimensions and spacing of wood independent-pole scaffold members, specifications for side rails of ladders, specifications for the construction of horses, safe center loads for scaffold plank of 1,100 pounds fibre stress, number and spacing of u-bolt wire rope clips, maximum allowable wear at any point of link).
Rigging gear - Shackles and hooks are rigging components used to attach loads and slings to lifting devices. These items along with ropes, chains, and slings make up the "rigging gear."
Competent person means a person who is capable of recognizing and evaluating employee exposure to hazardous substances or to other unsafe conditions and is capable of specifying the necessary protection and precautions to be taken to ensure the safety of employees as required by the particular regulation under the condition to which it applies.
Subpart G - Gear and Equipment for Rigging and Materials Handling
If yes, then you need to comply with the standard on ropes, chains and slings. It applies to ship repairing, shipbuilding and shipbreaking and includes the requirements for the use of manila rope and manila-rope slings (i.e., markings, safe working loads), wire rope and wire-rope slings (i.e., markings, safe working loads), and chain and chain slings (i.e., markings, safe working loads, inspections, removal; when defective, knots/kinks).
Additional information can be found on the A-Z safety and health topics pages for materials handling and storage and cranes and derricks.
If yes, then you need to comply with the standard on shackles and hooks. It applies to ship repairing, shipbuilding and shipbreaking and includes the requirements for the use of shackles (i.e., markings, safe working loads) and hooks (i.e., certification record, safe working load, inspections, tests).
Additional information can be found on the A-Z safety and health topics pages for materials handling and storage and cranes and derricks.
If yes, then you need to comply with the standard on chain falls and pull-lifts. This standard applies to ship repairing, shipbuilding and shipbreaking and includes the requirements for marking capacity, inspections and other use criteria.
Chain falls and pull-lifts such as come-alongs are frequently used to move or lift heavy items.
Additional information can be found on the A-Z safety and health topics pages for materials handling and storage and cranes and derricks.
If yes, then you need to comply with the standard on hoisting and hauling equipment. It applies to ship repairing, shipbuilding and shipbreaking and includes the requirements for derrick and crane certification, guarding, mobile crawler or truck cranes used on a vessel, safe working loads and marine railways.
Hoisting and hauling equipment consists of mobile or stationary cranes and derricks and marine railway installations.
Additional information can be found on the A-Z safety and health topics pages for materials handling and storage and cranes and derricks.
If yes, then you need to comply with the standard on powered industrial truck operator training which requires that you comply with paragraph (l) of the general industry standard for powered industrial trucks.
In addition, you will need to comply with some portions of the standard on motor vehicle safety equipment, operation and maintenance. It references that only the requirements related to motor vehicle safety equipment apply to powered industrial trucks and that additional requirements (i.e., maintenance, inspection, operation, training) that apply to powered industrial trucks that are used for shipyard employment are found in the general industry standard for powered industrial trucks.
Powered industrial trucks includes fork trucks, tractors, platform lift trucks, motorized hand trucks, and other specialized industrial trucks powered by electric motors or internal combustion engines. It does not apply to compressed air or nonflammable compressed gas-operated industrial trucks, nor to farm vehicles, nor to vehicles intended primarily for earth moving or over-the-road hauling.
Additional information can be found on the A-Z safety and health topics page for powered industrial trucks.