Pennsylvania Code › Title 34 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY › Part I - Department of Labor and Industry › Chapter 39 - SAFETY STANDARDS-GENERAL › Subchapter A - SAFE PRACTICES › RECOMMENDATIONS › Section 39.25 - Apparel

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
General.
Superfluous material and loose fitting clothing
					 should be avoided in the presence of a hazard from moving machine parts.
					 Excessively wide or long aprons should not be worn around moving machinery.
					 Aprons should never be tied on with wire and should be but lightly secured, so
					 that they may be easily torn loose by hand. In the presence of a fire hazard,
					 aprons of nonflammable material should be used.
(b)
Head coverings.
Persons
					 working in shops around machinery which presents a hair-catching hazard should
					 wear caps or other types of head covering. Caps should also be worn if there is
					 danger of the hair-catching fire. Caps with metal buttons or metal visors
					 should not be worn around electrical hazards. Women working about machines
					 should wear caps at all times.
(c)
Footwear.
For normal shop wear, shoes with unbroken soles and
					 low or medium height broad heels should be used. If there is a possibility of
					 heavy objects dropping on the feet, the toes should be boxed or reinforced. For
					 hazardous occupations, such as the handling of hot metal, acids, caustics,
					 electric current, and hot substances, or other objects offering a burning
					 hazard to the feet, specially adapted types of footwear are available and
					 should be worn.
(d)
Leg
					 protection.
Protective leg covering (clothing or devices) should be
					 worn when handling hot metals, acids, caustics or other hot or cold substances
					 offering a burning or scalding hazard. The material of which they are made
					 should be determined by the nature of the product being handled. Full length
					 leg or body protection should be used if the nature of the operation presents a
					 full length leg or body hazard. The method of fastening all protective leg
					 covering should be such as to permit instantaneous removal.
(e)
Hand or arm protection.
Unless the hands come close to rotating or otherwise moving machine parts,
					 gloves, mitts, hand pads, or other hand or arm protection should be worn when
					 handling objects with sharp edges or which contain splinters, fins, slivers, or
					 similar dangerous projecting parts. The material used and the shape and style
					 of the gloves, mitts, or hand pads should be determined by the nature of the
					 operation and the hazard against which it is desired to project. Gloves or
					 other hand or arm protection against heat or fire, hot or corrosive substances,
					 electricity or similar hazards, such as the handling of plates of glass, should
					 be long enough to cover the space between the wrist and the end of the shirt or
					 coat sleeve.
(f)
Flammable
					 attire.
Articles of wearing apparel or personal adornment, including
					 spectacle rims, collars, eye shades, or cap visors, composed principally of
					 some form of cellulose should not be worn in the presence of a spark or fire
					 hazard. Clothing rendered quickly flammable by grease or other substances
					 should also not be worn by persons exposed to a fire hazard.
(g)
Head and eye protection.
Goggles or other forms of head and eye protection should be worn
					 during the performance of all operations involving hazard to the head or eyes.
					 Subchapter C (relating to head and eye protection) should also be complied
					 with.
(h)
Sterilization
					 before interchange.
The interchange of personal protective devices
					 among employes without first having been sterilized should be
					 avoided.
(i)
Lifebelts.
All persons working aloft should be required to wear lifebelts
					 properly secured when exposed to a falling hazard.
(j)
Special requirements for women.
All industrial plants employing women should conform to the
					 following, in addition to the other requirements of this section:
(1) Work dresses should suit the job to be
					 safe.
(2) Jewelry should be
					 prohibited on the job.
(3) Correct
					 footwear should include well-fitted shoes with low heels and good soles. If the
					 job requires it, safety shoes should be worn.
(4) Any industry employing women where
					 exposures to hazard such as corrosive substances, alkalies, or acids, cuts,
					 dermatitis, falling objects, falls or slips, flying particles, hot liquids, hot
					 materials, moisture, punctures and blows, rough, sharp objects, or spark
					 explosions exist should consult the Department in regard to proper clothing for
					 their workers.