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- Potential Hazards
of Mislabeled Steel Toe Logger Boots. OSHA Safety and Health Information
Bulletin (SHIB) 09-30-2004, (2004, September 30). Alerts employers and employees of the potential
electrical hazards of Georgia Boot's mislabeled steel toe logger boots; to
provide Georgia Boot customers with the manufacturer’s recall instructions for
the subject boots;
and to remind users of OSHA’s requirements for electrical protective equipment
as covered by
29 CFR 1910.137.
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Logging. OSHA eTool.
Provides expert assistance for businesses and workers seeking to
comply with OSHA's logging standard. Logging procedures are examined, OSHA regulations explained, and links are provided to the specific sections of the standard.
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Logging
By many measures, logging is the most dangerous occupation
in the United States. The tools and equipment such as chain saws and logging
machines pose hazards wherever they are used. As loggers use their tools and
equipment, they deal with
massive weights and irresistible momentum of falling, rolling, and sliding trees and logs.
The hazards are more acute when dangerous environmental conditions are factored in,
such as uneven, unstable or rough terrain; inclement weather including rain, snow,
lightning, winds, and extreme cold and/or remote and isolated work sites where health care
facilities are not immediately accessible.
The combination of these hazards present a significant risk to employees
working in logging operations throughout the country, regardless of the type of
timber being logged, where it is logged, or the end use of the wood.
Exposures to hazards in logging are addressed in specific
standards for the general industry.
Standards
OSHA
This section highlights
OSHA standards, Federal Registers (rules, proposed rules, and notices),
preambles to final rules (background to final rules), directives (instructions for compliance
officers), standard interpretations (official interpretation of the standards),
state standards, and national consensus standards related to logging.
Note: Twenty-five states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands have
OSHA-approved State Plans and have adopted their own standards and
enforcement policies. For the most part, these States adopt standards that are
identical to Federal OSHA. However, some States have adopted different standards
applicable to this industry or may have different enforcement policies. State
standards that differ from Federal standards are listed in the State Standard
section below.
Frequently Cited Standards
A listing of the most frequently cited standards by Federal OSHA for Logging
Industry Group (SIC code 241) is available.
General Industry (29
CFR 1910)
Federal Registers
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Logging Operations. Final Rules 60:47022-47037, (1995, September
8). Corrects and amends the final rule on Logging Operations which was
published by OSHA on October 12, 1994 (59 FR 51672).
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Logging Operations. Final Rules 59:51672-51748, (1994, October
12). Replaces the existing standard at 29
CFR 1910.266, that had applied
only to pulpwood logging, and thereby expands coverage to provide
protection for all employees engaged in logging operations.
- Search all available Federal
Registers.
Preambles to Final Rules
Directives
Standard
Interpretations
State
Note: These are NOT OSHA regulations. However, they do
provide guidance from their originating organizations related to worker
protection.
National Consensus
Note: These are NOT OSHA regulations. However, they do
provide guidance from their originating organizations related to worker
protection.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- B175.1-1991, Safety Requirements for Gasoline-Powered Chain
Saws
- Z87.1-1968, USA Standard for Occupational and Educational Eye and Face
Protection
- Z87.1-1989, American National Standard Practice for Occupational and Educational
Eye and Face Protection
- Z89.1-1969, American National Standard Safety Requirements for Industrial Head
Protection
- Z89.1-1986, American National Standard for Personnel Protection-- Protective
Headwear for Industrial Workers-Requirements
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B175.1-2000, Gasoline Powered Chain Saws, Safety
Requirements
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Z87.1-2003, American National Standard for Occupational and Educational Eye and Face Protection Devices.
Joint standard with the International Safety Equipment Association.
(ISEA).
- Z89.1-2003, American National Standard for Industrial Head Protection.
Joint standard with the International Safety Equipment Association.
(ISEA).
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- B56.6 -1992, Safety Standard for Rough Terrain Forklift
Trucks
- B56 Standards. The ANSI/ITDSF Safety Standards B56.1 (low lift
and high lift trucks); B56.6 (rough terrain forklifts); B-56.8
(personnel and burden carriers); B56.9 (operator controlled
industrial tow tractors) and B-56.10 (manually propelled high lift
trucks) are very explicit on right of way. (2005 Standards). Joint
Standards with the Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation
(ITSTF).
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
- J185, Recommended Practice for Access Systems for Off-Road
Machines, (1988, June)
- J231, Minimum Performance Criteria for Falling Object Protective
Structures (FOPS), (1981, January)
- J386, Operator Restraint Systems for Off-Road Work
Machines, (1985, June)
- J397, Deflection Limiting Volume-ROPS/FOPS Laboratory
Evaluation, (1988, April)
- J1040, Performance Criteria for Rollover Protective Structures
(ROPS)
for Construction, Earthmoving, Forestry, and Mining Machines, (1988,
April)
- J185, Access Systems for Off-Road Machines, (2003, May).
- J1356, Minimum Performance Criteria for Falling Object
Guards for Excavators.
- J386, Operator Restraint System for Off-Road Work Machines,
(2006, February).
- J397, Deflection Limiting Volume-Protective Structures
Laboratory Evaluation, (2004, May).
- J2267, Minimum Performance Criteria for Operator Front
Protective Structure (OFPS) for Certain Equipment, (2007, April).
Hazard Recognition
Logging operations involve felling, moving trees and logs from the stump
to the point of delivery, transporting machines, equipment and personnel
to and from and between logging sites. Loggers need to recognize the hazards
associated with marking danger trees, felling, limbing,
bucking, debarking, chipping, yarding, loading, unloading, and storing
logs. This page addresses
safety practices for all types of logging, regardless of the end use of the wood. These
include pulpwood and timber harvesting and the logging of sawlogs, veneer bolts, poles,
pilings and other forest products.
- Potential Hazards
of Mislabeled Steel Toe Logger Boots. OSHA Safety and Health Information
Bulletin (SHIB) 09-30-2004, (2004, September 30). Alerts employers and employees of the potential
electrical hazards of Georgia Boot's mislabeled steel toe logger boots; to
provide Georgia Boot customers with the manufacturer's recall instructions for
the subject boots;
and to remind users of OSHA's requirements for electrical protective equipment
as covered by
29 CFR 1910.137.
- Logging Review Report.
OSHA, (2000, October). Provides a review of logging fatalities
investigated by the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration in FY 1996 and FY 1997.
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Logging Safety. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Workplace Safety and Health Topic. Contains a listing of several NIOSH publications related to safety in the logging industry.
Possible Solutions
The following links provide information about possible
solutions for hazards in logging.
- Preventing
Injuries and Deaths of Loggers. US Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS), National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH) Publication No. 95-101, (1995,
May). Describes six incidents resulting in the
deaths of six workers who were performing logging operations. In each
incident, the death could have been prevented by using proper safety
procedures and equipment and by following the provisions of the OSHA
standards.
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NIOSH Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Logging from Felling to First Haul.
US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Publication No. 76-188, (1976, July).
Presents the recommended standard prepared to meet the need for preventing occupational injuries and deaths
in logging operations.
Additional Information
Related Safety and Health Topics Pages
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