Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4123:1 - Division of Safety and Hygiene › Chapter 4123:1-13 - Rubber and Plastic Industries › Section 4123:1-13-01 - 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
				industrial commission, equivalent protection is thereby secured.
These specific requirements supplement those of 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 the rubber and plastic industries where
				crude, synthetic, or reclaimed rubber or plastics are processed.
Equipment used in the laboratory varies greatly from
				manufacturing equipment in size, speed, and height and is specifically excepted
				from the detailed provisions of these requirements; however, equivalent
				protection shall be provided.
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) "Approved" means
			 
									sanctioned, endorsed, accredited, certified, or
			 accepted as satisfactory by a duly constituted and nationally recognized
			 authority or agency.
(2)
			 "Bite" ("nip point") means the point of meeting between any two in-running
			 rolls.
(3) "Calender" means a
			 machine equipped with two or more heavy internally heated or cooled rolls
			 revolving in opposite directions and used for continuously sheeting or plying
			 up rubber or plastic compounds and for frictioning or coating fabric with
			 rubber or plastic compounds.
(4)
			 "Danger zone" means the point of operation where a known critical hazard
			 exists.
(5) "Factor of safety"
			 means the ratio between the ultimate breaking stress and the working stress of
			 the material, structure or device. For example, the term "factor of safety of
			 four" means that the material, structure or device shall be constructed of such
			 strength that the maximum load will be one-fourth the designed ultimate
			 breaking load. Where other factors of safety appear, they shall apply in the
			 same manner. The standards of the "American Society for Testing Materials"
			 shall be used in determining the strength of material except as otherwise
			 provided herein.
(6) "Guard" means
			 the covering, fencing, railing, or enclosure which shields an object from
			 accidental contact.
(7) "Guarded"
			 means that the object is covered, fenced, railed, enclosed or otherwise
			 shielded from accidental contact.
(8) "Mill" means a machine consisting of two
			 adjacent, heavy rolls, set horizontally, which revolve in opposite directions
			 (i.e., toward each other as viewed from above) used for the mechanical working
			 of rubber or plastic.
(9)
			 "Operator" means any employee assigned or authorized to work at the specific
			 equipment.
(10) "Pinch point"
			 ("shear point") means any point at which it is possible to be caught between
			 the moving parts of a machine, or between the moving and stationary parts of a
			 machine, or between the material and the moving part or parts of a
			 machine.
(11) "Point of operation"
			 means the point or points at which the material is placed in or removed from
			 the machine.
(12) "Securely
			 fastened" means that the object or thing referred to shall be substantially
			 fixed in place.
(13) "Safety trip"
			 means a device for stopping the travel of rolls when the device is actuated in
			 an emergency.
(14) "Shall" is to be
			 construed as mandatory.
(15)
			 "Substantial" means construction of such strength, of such materials, and of
			 such workmanship that the object will withstand the wear, usage, or shock for
			 which it is designed.