Utah Admin. Code R614-1-5 - Adoption and Extension of Established Federal Safety Standards and State of Utah General Safety Orders

A. Scope and Purpose.

1. The provisions of this rule adopt and extend the applicability of established Federal Safety Standards and UAC R614 with respect to every employer, employee and employment in the state of Utah, covered by the Utah OSH Act.

2. All standards and rules, including emergency and/or temporary, promulgated under the Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1590 et seq . , 29 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) shall be accepted as part of the standards, rules and regulations under the Utah OSH Act, unless specifically revoked or deleted.

B. Reporting Requirements.

1. Each employer shall within 8 hours of occurrence, notify UOSH of any work-related fatalities, of any disabling, serious, or significant injury and of any occupational disease incident. Call (801) 530-6901.

2. Tools, equipment, materials or other evidence that might pertain to the cause of such accident shall not be removed or destroyed until so authorized by UOSH or one of its CSHOs.

3 . Each employer shall investigate or cause to be investigated all work-related injuries and occupational diseases and any sudden or unusual occurrence or change of conditions that pose an unsafe or unhealthful exposure to employees.

C . Employer and Employee Responsibility.

1 . It shall be the duty and responsibility of any employee upon entering his or her place of employment, to examine carefully such working place and ascertain if the place is safe, if the tools and equipment can be used with safety, and if the work can be performed safely. After such examination, it shall be the duty of the employee to make the place, tools, or equipment safe. If this cannot be done, then it becomes his or her duty to immediately report the unsafe place, tools, equipment, or conditions to the foreman or supervisor.

2 . Employees must comply with all safety rules of their employer and with all the rules and regulations promulgated by UOSH which are applicable to their type of employment.

3 . Management shall inspect or designate a competent person or persons to inspect frequently for unsafe conditions and practices, defective equipment and materials, and where such conditions are found, it shall take appropriate action to correct such conditions immediately.

4 . Management shall warn all employees of any dangerous condition and permit no one to work in an unsafe place, except for the purpose of making it safe.

5 . Each employer shall instruct its employees in a language and vocabulary that the employees can understand. Employees shall only be assigned to duties or locations where they have the necessary skills and comprehension to work in a safe manner.

D . General Safety Requirements.

1 . No person shall remove, displace, bypass, destroy, or carry away any safety devices or safeguards provided for use in any place of employment, or interfere in any way with the use thereof by other persons, or interfere in any method or process adopted for the protection of employees.

2 . Where there is a risk of injury from hair entanglement in moving parts of machinery, employees shall confine their hair to eliminate the hazard.

3 . Loose gloves, sleeves, tails, ties, lapels, cuffs, or similar garments which can become entangled in moving machinery shall not be worn where an entanglement hazard exists. Clothing saturated or impregnated with flammable liquids, corrosive substances, irritant, oxidizing agents or other toxic materials shall be removed and shall not be worn until properly cleaned.

4 . Wrist watches, rings, or other jewelry shall not be worn on the job where they constitute a safety hazard.

5 . Emergency Posting Required.

A list of telephone numbers or addresses as may be applicable shall be posted in a conspicuous place so the necessary help can be obtained in case of emergency. This list shall include:

a . Responsible supervision (superintendent or equivalent)

b . Doctor

c . Hospital

d . Ambulance

e . Fire Department

f . Sheriff or Police

6 . Lockout and Tagout.

a . UOSH has incorporated, by reference, 29 CFR 1910.147, The Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout). See UAC R614-1-4.1.

b. The employee performing servicing or maintenance on machines or equipment required to be locked out under 29 CFR 1910.147 shall have exclusive control of the lockout device until the job is completed or such employee is relieved from the job, such as by shift change or other assignment.

7. Safety latch-type hooks shall be used wherever possible.

8. Grizzlies Over Chutes, Bins and Tank Openings.

a. Employees shall be provided with and use approved type safety harnesses and shall be tied off securely so as to be suspended above the level of the product before entering any bin, chute or storage place containing material that might cave or run. Cleaning and barring down in such places shall be started from the top using only bars blunt on one end or having a ring type or D handhold.

b. Employees shall not work on top of material stored or piled above chutes, drawholes or conveyor systems while material is being withdrawn unless protected.

c. Chutes, bins, drawholes and similar openings shall be equipped with grizzlies or other safety devices that will prevent employees from falling into the openings.

d. Bars for grizzly grids shall be so fitted that they will not loosen and slip out of place, and the operator shall not remove a bar temporarily to let large rocks through rather than to break them.

E. Process Safety Management.

All requirements of the process safety management (PSM) standard 29 CFR 1910.119 are hereby extended to include blister agents sulfur mustard (H, HD, HT), nitrogen mustard (HN-1, HN-2, HN-3), Lewisite (L) and halogenated oximes (CX) and the nerve agents tabun (GA), sarin (GB), soman (GD) and VX.

Notes

Utah Admin. Code R614-1-5

Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2020-02, effective 12/23/2019