['Tool Safety', 'Machine Guarding']
['Jacks', 'Hand and Other Portable Powered Tools', 'Saws', 'Machine Guarding', 'Tool Safety', 'Portable Grinders', 'Air Compressor Systems']
09/20/2024
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Tools are such a common part of our lives that it is difficult to remember that they pose hazards. All tools are manufactured with safety in mind but, tragically, a serious accident often occurs before steps are taken to search out and avoid or eliminate tool–related hazards. The greatest hazards posed by tools result from misuse and improper maintenance.
Employees should be trained in the use of all tools — not only power tools. They should understand potential hazards and safety precautions to prevent those hazards from occurring.
Scope
The Hand and Power Tools standard in Construction protects employees using all tools defined in this standard while engaged in construction activities including hand tools, power-operated tools, abrasive wheels, woodworking tools, jacks, air receivers, and mechanical power-transmission apparatus.
The standard applies to tools and equipment used in construction activities, unless specified by exceptions within requirements listed in this standard.
Regulatory citations
- 29 CFR 1926 Subpart I — Tools–Hand and Power
Key definitions
- Abrasive wheel: Any mounted wheel that sits on a spindle, generally used for cutting, polishing and buffing.
- Hand-operated: Any tools that do not rely on external sources of energy to be used including axes, wrenches, chisels, screwdrivers, and hammers.
- Impact: Any tool that requires an external force to be used including chisels, wedges, and drift pins.
- Pneumatic: Any tool operated by air or gas pressure and used to shoot nails, staples, and rivets.
- Point of operation: An area on a machine where work is actually performed upon the material being processed.
- Power-operated: Any tool that uses external energy including, but not limited to, compressed air, electricity, powder, gas, and hydraulics.
Summary of requirements
In general the standard requires covered employers to:
- Maintain hand and power tools, and other related equipment, for safe working conditions.
- Mark all jacks with the manufacturers rated capacity so that levels are not exceeded.
- Provide training to employees on the proper use, hazards, and safety precautions for all tools.
- Provide employees using hand and power tools and exposed to the hazard of falling, flying, abrasive, and splashing objects, or exposed to harmful dusts, fumes, mists, vapors, or gases, with the particular personal protective equipment necessary to protect them from the hazard.
- Secure pneumatic tools to the hose or whip by some means to prevent the tool from becoming accidentally disconnected.
- Establish safe working procedures to ensure that hazards associated with the use of all tools are prevented.
- Communicate the manufacturers recommendations for the necessary tools using signage, and marking.
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