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(iii) Inspect and test the hoist system 

as specified by 29 CFR 1926.552(c)(15). 

(b) The employers must comply with 

the accident prevention requirements of 

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(3). 

16. Welding 

(a) The employers must use only 

qualified welders to weld components 

of the hoisting system. 

(b) The employers must ensure that 

the qualified welders: 

(i) Are familiar with the weld grades, 

types, and materials specified in the 

design of the system; and 

(ii) Perform the welding tasks in 

accordance with 29 CFR 1926, subpart 

J (‘‘Welding and Cutting’’). 

Appendix A 

Nonmandatory Conditions When 

Performing Chimney Construction 

Using Hoist Systems 

OSHA strongly encourages the employers 

to implement the following additional 

conditions under this order: 

1. Fall hazards. The employers should 

install attachment points inside personnel 

cages for securing fall-arrest systems, and 

ensure that workers using personnel cages 

secure their fall-arrest systems to these 

attachment points. 

2. Shearing hazards. The employers 

should: 

(a) Provide workers who use personnel 

platforms or boatswain’s chairs with 

instruction on the shearing hazards posed by 

the hoist system (e.g., work platforms, 

scaffolds), and the need to keep their limbs 

or other body parts clear of these hazards 

during hoisting operations; 

(b) Provide the instruction on shearing 

hazards: 

(i) Before a worker uses a personnel 

platform or boatswain’s chair at the worksite; 

and 

(ii) Periodically, and as necessary, 

thereafter, including whenever a worker 

demonstrates a lack of knowledge about the 

hazard or how to avoid the hazard, a 

modification occurs to an existing shearing 

hazard, or a new shearing hazard develops at 

the worksite; and 

(c) Attach a readily visible warning to each 

personnel platform and boatswain’s chair 

notifying workers, in a language the workers 

understand, of potential shearing hazards 

they may encounter during hoisting 

operations, and that uses the following (or 

equivalent) wording: 

(i) For personnel platforms: ‘‘Warning—To 

avoid serious injury, keep your hands, arms, 

feet, legs, and other parts of your body inside 

this platform while it is in motion’’; and 

(ii) For boatswain’s chairs: ‘‘Warning—To 

avoid serious injury, do not extend your 

hands, arms, feet, legs, or other parts your 

body from the side or to the front of this chair 

while it is in motion.’’ 

3. Safety zone. The employers should: 

(a) Establish a clearly designated safety 

zone around the bottom landing of the hoist 

system; and 

(b) Prohibit any worker from entering the 

safety zone except to access a personnel- or 

material-transport device, and then only 

when the device is at the bottom landing and 

not in operation (i.e., when the drive 

components of the hoist machine are 

disengaged and the braking mechanism is 

properly applied). 

4. OSHA notification. The employers 

should: 

(a) At least 15 calendar days prior to 

commencing any chimney construction 

operation using the conditions specified 

herein, notify the OSHA Area Office nearest 

to the worksite, or the appropriate State-Plan 

Office, of the operation, including the 

location of the operation and the date the 

operation will commence; 

(b) Inform OSHA national headquarters as 

soon as it has knowledge that it will: 

(i) Cease to do business; or 

(ii) Transfer the activities covered by this 

permanent variance to a successor company. 

IX. Authority and Signature 

Jordan Barab, Acting Assistant 

Secretary of Labor for Occupational 

Safety and Health, U.S. Department of 

Labor, 200 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC directed the 

preparation of this notice. OSHA is 

issuing this notice under the authority 

specified by Section 6(d) of the 

Occupational Safety and Health Act of 

1970 (29 U.S.C. 655), Secretary of 

Labor’s Order No. 5–2007 (72 FR 

31160), and 29 CFR part 1905. 

Signed at Washington, DC, on August 11th, 

2009. 

Jordan Barab, 

Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

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