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 2 - Safe Practices and Personal Protection › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Safe Practices › Section 3326 - Servicing Single, Split and Multi-Piece Rims or Wheels

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Scope. This section applies to the
						servicing of single, split, and multi-piece rims or wheels used on vehicles
						such as forklifts, industrial tractors, trucks, tractors, trailers, busses, and
						off-road machines.
EXCEPTION: Automobile or light truck tires ("LT") used
						  on light pickups and vans utilizing single piece rims or wheels when a
						  hold-down cone type tire inflation system is used in accordance with the
						  recommendations of the tire manufacturer.
(b) Definitions.
Barrier. A fence, wall or other structure or object
						  placed between a single, split or multi-piece rim or wheel and employee during
						  tire inflation, to contain the rim wheel components in the event of a sudden
						  release of the contained air from the single, split or multi-piece rim or
						  wheel.
Installing a rim wheel. The transfer and attachment of
						  an assembled rim wheel onto a vehicle axle hub. Removing means the opposite of
						  installing. Mounting a Tire. The assembly or putting together the wheel and
						  tire components to form a rim wheel, including inflation. Demounting means the
						  opposite of mounting a tire.
Multi-piece rim or wheel. A vehicle rim or wheel
						  consisting of two or more parts, one of which is a side or locking ring
						  designed to hold the tire on the rim or wheel by interlocking components when
						  the tire is inflated.
Restraining device. An apparatus such as a cage, rack,
						  or assemblage of bars and other components that will constrain all rim wheel
						  components during an explosive separation of a split rim wheel, multi-piece rim
						  wheel or during the sudden release of the contained air of a single piece rim
						  wheel.
Rim manual. A publication or chart containing
						  instructions, and safety precautions from the manufacturer or other qualified
						  organization for correct mounting and demounting of tires and safety
						  precautions for the type of rim or wheel being serviced.
Rim wheel. An assemblage of tire, tube and liner, where
						  appropriate, and wheel components.
Single piece rim or wheel. A vehicle rim or wheel
						  consisting of one part, designed to hold the tire on the rim or wheel when the
						  tire is inflated.
Split rim (divided) wheel. A vehicle wheel or rim where
						  the inner section and outer section are assembled back to back and secured by
						  bolts and nuts or other fastening devices. The outer section has additional
						  holes that align to the vehicle wheel studs and are secured to the wheel hub
						  with nuts or other approved means of fastening the wheel to the vehicle
						  hub.
Trajectory. Any potential path or route that a rim
						  wheel component may travel during an explosive separation, or the sudden
						  release of the pressurized air. See Appendix A.
(c) Employee Training. The employer shall
						establish a training program which shall include, as a minimum, the following
						elements:
(1) The Accident Prevention Program
						of Section 3203(a).
(2) The employer shall assure that each
						employee understands, demonstrates and maintains the ability to service single,
						split and multi-piece rims or wheels safely, including performance of the
						following tasks:
(A) Demounting of tires
						(including deflation).
(B)
						Inspection and identification of the rim wheel components.
(C) Mounting of tire (including inflation
						with a restraining device or other safeguard required by this
						section).
(D) Use of other
						equipment required by this section.
(E) Inflation of the tire when a single piece
						rim wheel is installed on a vehicle.
(F) An understanding of the necessity of
						standing outside the trajectory both during inflation of the tire and during
						inspection of the rim wheel following inflation.
(G) Installation and removal of rim wheels
						from the vehicle.