- Part Number:1926
- Part Number Title:Safety and Health Regulations for Construction
- Subpart:1926 Subpart Q
- Subpart Title:Concrete and Masonry Construction
- Standard Number:
- Title:Requirements for equipment and tools.
- GPO Source:
Bulk cement storage.
Concrete mixers. Concrete mixers with one cubic yard (.8 m3) or larger loading skips shall be equipped with the following:
Power concrete trowels. Powered and rotating type concrete troweling machines that are manually guided shall be equipped with a control switch that will automatically shut off the power whenever the hands of the operator are removed from the equipment handles.
Concrete buggies. Concrete buggy handles shall not extend beyond the wheels on either side of the buggy.
Concrete pumping systems.
Concrete buckets.
Tremies. Sections of tremies and similar concrete conveyances shall be secured with wire rope (or equivalent materials) in addition to the regular couplings or connections.
Bull floats. Bull float handles, used where they might contact energized electrical conductors, shall be constructed of nonconductive material or insulated with a nonconductive sheath whose electrical and mechanical characteristics provide the equivalent protection of a handle constructed of nonconductive material.
Masonry saws.
Masonry saws shall be guarded with a semicircular enclosure over the blade.
Lockout/Tagout Procedures.
No employee shall be permitted to perform maintenance or repair activity on equipment (such as compressors, mixers, screens or pumps used for concrete and masonry construction activities) where the inadvertent operation of the equipment could occur and cause injury, unless all potentially hazardous energy sources have been locked out and tagged.
Tags shall read Do Not Start or similar language to indicate that the equipment is not to be operated.