California Code of Regulations › Title 8 - Industrial Relations › Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations › Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety › Subchapter 7 - General Industry Safety Orders › Group 8 - Points of Operation and Other Hazardous Parts of Machinery › Article 59 - Woodworking Machines and Equipment › Section 4296 - General

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Combs
						(featherboards) or suitable jigs shall be provided at the workplace for use
						when a standard guard cannot be used, as in dadoing, grooving, jointing,
						moulding, and rabbeting.
(b) An
						automatic cut-off saw which strokes continuously shall not be used if the
						operator is exposed to the hazards of the saw and is not able to control each
						stroke.
(c) Arbors and mandrels
						shall be constructed so as to have firm and secure bearing and be free from
						play.
(d) Sharpening or tensioning
						of saw blades or cutters shall be done only by persons with experience and
						skill in this kind of work.
(e) Saw
						frames or tables shall be constructed with lugs cast on the frame or with an
						equivalent means to limit the size of the saw blade that can be mounted, so as
						to avoid overspeed caused by mounting a saw blade larger than
						intended.
(f) Circular saw fences
						shall be so constructed than they can be firmly secured to the table or table
						assembly without changing their alignment with the saw. For saws with tilting
						tables or tilting arbors the fence shall be so constructed that it will remain
						in a line parallel with the saw blade, regardless of the angle of the saw blade
						with the table.
(g) Circular saw
						gauges shall be so constructed as to slide in grooves or tracks that are
						accurately machined, to insure exact alignment with the saw blade for all
						positions of the guide.
(h) Hinged
						saw tables shall be so constructed that the table can be firmly secured in any
						position and in true alignment with the saw blade.
(i) Ripsaw spreaders shall be made of hard
						tempered steel, or its equivalent, and shall be thinner than the saw kerf. The
						spreader shall be of sufficient width to provide adequate stiffness or rigidity
						to resist any reasonable side thrust or blow tending to bend or throw it out of
						position.
(j) Ripsaw spreaders
						shall be attached so as to remain in true alignment with the saw blade even
						when either the blade or table is tilted, and shall be placed so that there is
						not more than ½ -inch space between the spreader and the back of the saw
						blade when the largest blade is mounted in the machine. The provision of a
						spreader in connection with grooving, dadoing, or rabbeting is not required. On
						the completion of such operations, the spreader shall be immediately
						replaced.
(k) The hood shall be
						made of adequate strength to resist blows and strains incidental to reasonable
						operation, adjusting, and handling, and shall be so designed as to protect the
						operator from flying splinters and broken saw teeth. It shall be made of
						material that is soft enough so that it will be unlikely to cause tooth
						breakage.
(l) The hood shall be so
						mounted as to insure that its operation will be positive, reliable, and in true
						alignment with the saw blade; and the mounting shall be adequate in strength to
						resist any reasonable side thrust or other force tending to throw it out of
						line.
(m) For all circular saws
						where conditions are such that there is a possibility of contact with the
						portion of the saw blade either beneath or behind the table, that portion of
						the blade shall be covered with an exhaust hood, or, if no exhaust system is
						required, with a guard that shall be so arranged as to prevent accidental
						contact with the saw blade.
(n)
						Revolving double arbor saw blades shall be fully guarded in accordance with all
						the requirements for circular crosscut saws or with all the requirements for
						circular ripsaws, according to the kind of saws mounted on the
						arbors.
(o) No saw blade, cutter
						head, or tool collar shall be placed or mounted on a machine arbor unless the
						tool as been accurately machined to size and shape to fit the arbor.
(p) Each machine shall be designed,
						constructed and mounted in a manner that will eliminate hazardous vibration at
						any operating speed while using any tool designed for the machine.
(q) On machinery and equipment where injury
						might result if motors were to automatically restart after power failures,
						provision shall be made to prevent machines and equipment from automatically
						starting upon restoration of power.
EXCEPTION: Portable power tools intended to be handheld
						  during use.
NOTE: For the purpose of subsection (q), the term
						  "provision" means electrical or mechanical device, or administrative
						  procedures.
1. New
						  section filed 10-25-74; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 74, No.
						  43).
2. Amendment and renumbering of Section
						  4298 to Section
						  4296 filed 4-27-79; effective
						  thirtieth day thereafter (Register 79, No. 17).
3. Amendment filed
						  8-15-86; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 86, No.
						  41).
4. New subsection (q) (including Exception and Note) filed
						  9-5-2001; operative 10-5-2001 (Register 2001, No.
						  36).
Note: Authority cited: Section
							 142.3, Labor
							 Code. Reference: Section
							 142.3, Labor
							 Code.