Machine SafetyChapter 296-806, WAC |
Effective Date: 01/01/05 |
Food Processing Equipment |
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This section applies to:
- All businesses that manufacture or
process food, whether or not they are contained inside food
stores
and - The design, installation, operations,
and maintenance of machinery and equipment used in the food
processing industry.
Your Responsibility
To protect employees from hazards associated with food processing facilities and machines
You must
| FACILITIES | |
| Provide locks on chamber doors of large air conditioning units |
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| Use proper door locks on rack-type bread coolers |
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| Provide see-through panels on fermentation room doors |
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| Cover exposed hot pipes |
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| Provide extension piping on stationary lubrication fittings |
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| Provide hoods for pan washing tanks |
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| Safeguard proof boxes |
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| Safeguard storage bins |
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| MATERIAL HANDLING | |
| Follow these design requirements for bag lifts (bag arm elevators) and chutes |
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| Follow these requirements for chain tackle |
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| Safeguard conveyors |
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| Use properly designed covers for screw conveyors (augers) |
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| Safeguard pallet jacks and hand trucks |
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| SPECIFIC FOOD PROCESSING EQUIPMENT | |
| Safeguard bakery slicers |
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| Safeguard bakery wrapping machines |
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| Provide troughs with antifriction-bearing casters |
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| Follow these requirements for trough hoists and similar equipment |
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| Follow these requirements for dividers |
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| Safeguard manually-fed dough and cross-roll brakes |
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| Provide a guard or tripping device on reversible dough brakes |
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| Follow these requirements for doughnut machines |
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| Follow these requirements for dumpbins and blenders |
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| Follow these requirements for flour-handling machines |
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| Follow these requirements for traveling or track-type flour scales |
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| Follow these requirements for food grinders and cutters |
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| Provide covers with interlocks on ingredient premixers, emulsifiers, and similar machines |
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| Follow these requirements for open fat kettles |
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| Follow these requirements for steam kettles |
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| Follow these requirements for chocolate melting, refining, and mixing kettles |
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| Safeguard meat-processing equipment (circular meat-cutting saws) |
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| Follow these requirements for horizontal dough mixers |
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| Follow these requirements for vertical mixers |
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| Follow these requirements for mechanical-feed moulders |
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| Follow these requirements for hand-fed moulders |
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| Design, install, and construct your ovens according to these requirements |
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| Properly locate emergency “stop” buttons and main shut-off valves for ovens |
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| Inspect and test safety devices on ovens |
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| Follow these requirements for peanut-cooling trucks |
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| Follow
these requirements for pretzel rolling, pretzel stick extruding,
rotary, and die machines |
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| Safeguard box and roll-type dough sheeters |
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| Provide proper enclosures for sifters |
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| Follow these requirements for sugar and spice pulverizers |
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