California Code of Regulations › Title 8 - Industrial Relations › Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations › Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety › Subchapter 4 - Construction Safety Orders › Article 14 - Construction Hoists › Section 1605.9 - Hoist Platforms and Cages

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Workmen shall be prohibited from riding
					 the hoist platform except for authorized inspection and maintenance.
(b) When wheelbarrows or other rolling
					 equipment are transported, they shall be held securely in place on the hoist
					 platform.
(c) Overhead protective
					 covering of two-inch planking, ¾ -inch plywood or other solid material
					 of equivalent strength shall be provided on the top of every material hoist
					 cage or platform to prevent objects falling on the workmen loading or unloading
					 the hoist.
(d) The protective
					 covering on the top of the cage or platform may be made in hinged sections that
					 may be raised when hoisting long material.
(e) When using a cage or platform for long
					 material, the several pieces of the material shall be securely fastened
					 together and made fast to the cage or platform, so that no part of the load can
					 fall or project beyond the sides of the cage or platform.
(f) Platform floors covered with metal, shall
					 have a non-slip surface.
(g) When a
					 hoist tower is not enclosed, the hoist platform or car shall be totally
					 enclosed (caged) on all sides including the roof, for the full height between
					 the floor and the cage top. The walls of the cage shall be constructed of
					 ½ -inch mesh of No. 14 U. S. Standard gage wire or the equivalent. The
					 hoist-platform enclosure will include the required gates for loading and
					 unloading.
(h) A stamped plate
					 indicating the manufacturer's rated load of the hoist in pounds shall be
					 conspicuously displayed in the hoist cage.
(i) Broken-rope safety devices, if and when
					 used in conjunction with material platforms or concrete buckets, shall conform
					 to the following conditions. However, under no circumstances shall they be
					 construed to satisfy the requirements of Section
					 1604 of these Orders.
(1) The safety device when engaged shall be
					 capable of stopping and holding the platform or bucket with its rated
					 load.
(2) The safety device shall
					 be securely attached to the frame of the platform, or bucket, in such manner
					 that the platform, or bucket, will not become separated from the safety device
					 under the conditions cited in (1) above.
(3) Any platform, or bucket, used in
					 conjunction with safety devices shall be capable of meeting the conditions
					 cited in (1) above without resultant failures or loss of its load.
(4) Any material hoist structure including
					 tower components, guide rails, and their attachments, and any parts affected by
					 the action of the safety device, when subjected to the conditions cited in (1)
					 above shall sustain the platform or bucket with its rated load without
					 structural failure.
(5) The safety
					 device shall be activated by a positive means in the event of rope failure, and
					 when engaged shall be released only by raising the platform or bucket from the
					 stopped position.
(6) The ability
					 of the equipment to satisfy the requirements of (1) and (2) above, shall be
					 established by tests witnessed by the enforcing authority, an independent
					 testing laboratory, or registered professional engineer.