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 3 - General Plant Equipment and Special Operations › Article 14 - Marine Terminal Operations › Section 3461 - General

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) All cargo
						handling gear and equipment provided by the employer shall be inspected by the
						employer or his authorized representative before each use and, when necessary,
						at intervals during its use to insure that it is safe for its intended use. Any
						such gear which is found to be visibly unsafe shall not be used until it is
						made safe.
(b) Drafts shall be
						safely slung before being hoisted. Loose dunnage or debris hanging or
						protruding from loads shall be removed.
(c) Nails which are protruding from shoring
						or fencing in the immediate work areas shall be bent over or otherwise rendered
						harmless. (Dunnage, lumber, or shoring material in which there are visibly
						protruding nails shall be removed from the immediate work area, or, if left in
						that area, the nails shall be bent over or otherwise rendered
						harmless.)
(d) Barges and railcars
						shall not be moved by cargo runners (running rigging) from vessel cargo booms,
						cranes or other equipment not suitable for the purpose.
(e) Bales of cotton, wool, cork, wood pulp,
						burlap bags or similar articles shall be hoisted by straps or by other means
						strong enough to support the weight of the bale. At least two hooks, each in a
						separate strap, shall be used.
(f)
						Unitized loads bound by bands or straps may be hoisted by the banding or
						strapping only if the banding or strapping is suitable for hoisting and is
						strong enough to support the weight of the load.
(g) No employee shall be hoisted by the load
						hoisting apparatus of a crane or derrick except on intermodal container
						spreaders equipped in accordance with Section
						3466(i).
(h) When stringpiece or apron width is
						insufficient for safe footing, grab lines or rails shall be installed on the
						sides of permanent structures.
(i)
						In order to provide safe access for handling lines while mooring and unmooring
						vessels, cargo or material shall not be stowed or vehicles placed where they
						obstruct the work surface to be used.
(j) Hatch beams, covers and pontoons placed
						in terminal working areas shall be stowed in stable piles with beams secured
						against tipping or falling. Alternatively, beams may be laid on their sides.
						When beams and pontoons are stowed in tiers more than one high, dunnage or
						other suitable material shall be used under and between the tiers.
(k) Cargo and material shall not obstruct
						access to vessels, cranes, vehicles or buildings. Means of access and egress
						within buildings shall be similarly unobstructed.
(l) To prevent inadvertent employee entry
						into spaces that have been identified as having hazardous, flammable or oxygen
						deficient atmospheres, appropriate warning signs or equivalent means shall be
						posted at all means of access to those spaces.
(m) Work shall not be carried on in the
						immediate vicinity of uncovered garbage or in the way of overboard discharges
						from sanitary lines unless employees are protected from the garbage or
						discharge by a baffle or splash boards.
(n) Open fires and fires in drums or similar
						containers are prohibited.
(o)
						Repair and reconditioning of damaged or leaking cargo packaging (coopering)
						shall be performed so as not to endanger employees.
1.
						  Amendment filed 12-12-84; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 84, No.
						  50).
Note: Authority cited: Section
							 142.3, Labor
							 Code. Reference: Section
							 142.3, Labor
							 Code.