Machine Safety

Chapter 296-806, WAC

Effective Date: 01/01/05
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WAC 296-806-480

Saws and Cutting Heads

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If your specific machine or operation isn’t listed here, then be sure to follow any of the following requirements that apply:

  • General requirements for all saws and cutting heads in this section
  • General requirements for all saws in this section
  • General requirements for all cutting heads in this section
  • “Requirements for All Machines” found in this chapter,
    WAC 296-806-200 and WAC 296-806-300.

 

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

Protect employees using saws and cutting heads

WAC 296-806-48002

Make sure saws and cutting heads are sharpened and tensioned by
qualified people

WAC 296-806-48004
SAWS
General requirements for all saws

Make sure saws are safe to use

WAC 296-806-48006
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