Machine SafetyChapter 296-806, WAC |
Effective Date: 01/01/05 |
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This section applies to fixed machines using saws or cutting heads that are used on any material.
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Your Responsibility
To make sure machines using saws and cutting heads meet these requirements
You must
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL SAWS AND CUTTING HEADS | |
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Protect employees using saws and cutting heads |
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Make sure saws and cutting heads are
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| SAWS | |
| General requirements for all saws | |
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Make sure saws are safe to use |
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| Requirements for all circular saws | |
| Make sure all circular saws meet these requirements | WAC 296-806-48008 |
| Make sure circular saw gages meet these requirements | WAC 296-806-48010 |
| Guard hand-fed circular table saws | WAC 296-806-48012 |
| Provide kickback protection for employees using hand-fed circular table ripsaws when ripping wood products | WAC 296-806-48014 |
| Safeguard self-feed circular saws | WAC 296-806-48016 |
| Provide kickback protection for self-feed circular ripsaws when ripping wood products | WAC 296-806-48018 |
| Guard circular resaws | WAC 296-806-48020 |
| Provide spreaders for circular resaws | WAC 296-806-48022 |
| Requirements for Specific Circular Saws | |
| Protect employees from automatic saw hazards | WAC 296-806-48024 |
| Guard inverted swing (jump) saws | WAC 296-806-48026 |
| Guard miter saws | WAC 296-806-48028 |
| Guard radial saws | WAC 296-806-48030 |
| Limit the travel of radial saws | WAC 296-806-48032 |
| Provide kickback protection for radial saws when ripping wood | WAC 296-806-48034 |
| Guard revolving double arbor saws | WAC 296-806-48036 |
| Guard swing saws | WAC 296-806-48038 |
| Limit the travel of swing saws | WAC 296-806-48040 |
| Requirements for Band Saws and Drag Saws | |
| Make sure bandsaws meet these requirements | WAC 296-806-48042 |
| Protect employees from drag saw hazards | WAC 296-806-48044 |
| CUTTING HEADS | |
| General Requirements for All Cutting Heads | |
| Maintain and balance knives and cutting heads | WAC 296-806-48046 |
| Boring and mortising machines | |
| Make sure
boring and mortising machines meet these requirements |
WAC 296-806-48048 |
| Chipper and Hog Mills | |
| Follow these requirements for chipper mills | WAC 296-806-48050 |
| Follow these requirements for hog mills | WAC 296-806-48052 |
| Protect employees from falling into chipper and hog mills | WAC 296-806-48054 |
| Jointers | |
| Make sure
jointers with horizontal cutting heads meet these requirements |
WAC 296-806-48056 |
| Guard horizontal cutting heads on hand-fed jointers | WAC 296-806-48058 |
| Guard vertical cutting heads on jointers | WAC 296-806-48060 |
| Molding, Sticking and Matching Machines | |
| Make sure
molding, sticking and matching machines meet these requirements |
WAC 296-806-48062 |
| Panel Raisers and Other Similar Machines | |
| Guard hand-fed panel raisers and other similar machines | WAC 296-806-48064 |
| Planers | |
| Make sure planers with a horizontal cutting head meet these requirements | WAC 296-806-48066 |
| Guard planers | WAC 296-806-48068 |
| Guard planer feed rolls | WAC 296-806-48070 |
| Provide kickback protection
on planers running stock of varied thickness |
WAC 296-806-48072 |
| Shapers | |
| Make sure shapers meet these requirements | WAC 296-806-48074 |
| Tenoning Machines | |
| Guard tenoning machine feed chains and sprockets | WAC 296-806-48076 |
| Guard tenoning machines | WAC 296-806-48078 |
| Veneer Machinery | |
| Guard veneer cutters and wringer knives | WAC 296-806-48080 |
| Guard veneer clippers | WAC 296-806-48082 |
| Follow these requirements for guarding guillotine cutters | WAC 296-806-48084 |
| Provide mechanisms to stop power-driven guillotine cutters | WAC 296-806-48086 |
| Prohibit riders on veneer slicer carriages | WAC 296-806-48088 |
