Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4123:1 - Division of Safety and Hygiene › Chapter 4123:1-11 - Laundering and Drycleaning › Section 4123:1-11-01 - Scope and definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Scope.
The purpose of these safety requirements is to provide
				reasonable safety for life, limb and health of employees. In cases of practical
				difficulty or unnecessary hardship, the Ohio bureau of workers' compensation
				may grant exceptions from the literal provisions of these requirements or
				permit the use of other devices or methods when, in the opinion of the
				superintendent of the division of safety and hygiene, equivalent protection is
				thereby secured.
These specific requirements supplement Chapter 4123:1-5 of the
				Administrative Code, "Specific Safety Requirements of the Ohio Bureau of
				Workers' Compensation Relating to All Workshops and Factories," and are minimum
				requirements of an employer for the protection of such employer's employees and
				no others and apply to places of employment wherein laundering or drycleaning
				processes are performed.
Installations or constructions built or contracted for prior to
				the effective date of any requirement shall be deemed to comply with the
				provisions of these requirements if such installations or constructions comply
				either with the provisions of these requirements or with the provisions of any
				applicable specific requirement which was in effect at the time contracted for
				or built.
(B) Definitions.
(1) "Air contaminants," as used in this rule,
			 means hazardous concentrations of fibrosis-producing toxic dusts, toxic fumes,
			 toxic mists, toxic vapors, or toxic gases, or a combination of these, suspended
			 in the atmosphere.
(2) "Approved"
			 means accepted or certified by a nationally recognized testing agency, such as
			 "Underwriters' Laboratories," "Factory Mutual Engineering Corporation," or a
			 responsible governmental agency.
(3) "Centrifugal extractor" means a machine
			 used for removing moisture from textile articles by centrifugal
			 action.
(4) "Drycleaning" means
			 
									the process of removing dirt, grease,
			 paints, and other stains from such items as wearing apparel, textiles, fabrics,
			 and rugs by the use of nonaqueous liquids (solvents, nonwater
			 based).
(5) "Drying box or
			 cabinet" means a heated, stationary enclosure used for drying, smoothing, or
			 finishing textile articles.
(6)
			 "Flammable liquid" means 
									a liquid having a closed
			 cup flashpoint below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (thirty-eight
			 degrees Celsius) Flammable liquids
			 
									are further categorized into a group known as class I
			 liquids. 
									The
			 class I 
									category is subdivided as
			 follows:
(a)
										"Class IA"
										
										are liquids having 
										a
			 flashpoint below seventy-three degrees Fahrenheit (twenty-three
			 degrees Celsius) and having a boiling point  below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (
										thirty-eight
			 degrees Celsius.)
(b)
										"Class IB"
										
										are liquids having 
										a
			 flashpoint below seventy-three degrees Fahrenheit (twenty-three
			 degrees Celsius) and having a boiling point at or above one hundred degrees
			 Fahrenheit (thirty-eight degrees Celsius.)
(c)
										"Class
			 IC"
										
										are liquids having
			 
										a
			 flashpoint at or above seventy-three degrees Fahrenheit (twenty-three
			 degrees Celsius) and below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (
										thirty-eight
			 degrees Celsius.)
(7) "Guard" means the covering, fencing,
			 railing, or enclosure which shields an object from accidental
			 contact.
(8) "Guarded" means that
			 the object is covered, fenced, railed, enclosed or otherwise shielded from
			 accidental contact.
(9) "Ironer"
			 means a machine with one or more rolls or heated surfaces used for drying,
			 ironing, or smoothing textile articles.
(10) "Laundry press" or "drycleaning press"
			 means a machine on which textile articles are dried or finished between two
			 surfaces pressed together.
(11)
			 "Nonflammable liquid" means any liquid or mixture of liquids which in its
			 original state, or after continued use or agitation, or by distillation, will
			 not burn in a closed cup tester, or which in any state, when mixed with air,
			 gives off vapors which are noncombustible or nonexplosive.
(12) "Operator" means any employee assigned
			 or authorized to work at the specific equipment.
(13) "Puff iron" means a heated device for
			 smoothing or shaping textile articles.
(14) "Shall" is to be construed as
			 mandatory.
(15) "Squeeze extractor"
			 means any mechanically, pneumatically, or hydraulically operated compacting
			 machine for removing excess liquid from textile articles by
			 squeezing.
(16) "Still" means an
			 appliance that receives contaminated
			 flammable or combustible liquids or vapors and which distills the contents to
			 remove contaminants and recover the solvents in the drycleaning
			 process.
(17) "Substantial"
			 means construction or such strength, of such materials, and of such workmanship
			 that the object will withstand the wear, usage or shock for which it is
			 designed.
(18) "Tumbler" means a
			 machine in which textile articles are shaken out or dried by tumbling within a
			 rotating cylinder.
(19)
			 "Washer/extractor" means any machine in which the washing and extraction
			 operations are performed.
(20)
			 "Wringer" means one or more power-driven rolls used for removing excess
			 liquid.