Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-56 - Safety standards-Longshore, stevedore and waterfront related operations › Section 296-56-60051 - Handling explosives or hazardous materials

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) You must thoroughly inform all workers
			 handling explosive or other hazardous material which is properly labeled
			 pursuant to the Washington State Labeling Code, chapters 296-62 and 296-64 WAC,
			 promulgated by the department of labor and industries; or the Explosive Act,
			 chapter 70.74 RCW and chapter 296-52 WAC; or the Federal and Washington State
			 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Acts; the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
			 Rodenticide Act, the Washington Pesticide Act, chapter 17.21 RCW; the Federal
			 Hazardous Substances Labeling Act; or the Interstate Commerce Commission and
			 Foreign Commerce regulations; or explosives or other dangerous cargo which is
			 reasonably known by the employers to be mislabeled or to be lacking a required
			 label, of the explosive or hazardous nature of the cargo.
(2) You must ensure that all shipping
			 operations including, but not limited to, handling, storage, and preparation,
			 compliance with the standards of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the United
			 States Coast Guard, or the safety rules developed by the Institute of Makers of
			 Explosives are deemed proper and safe methods of operation.
(3) You must require the foreman to order the
			 work in the immediate area to cease, if breakage should occur while handling
			 explosives or other hazardous materials, until the hazard has been removed. You
			 must use a safe method of handling such breakage and placing it in a remote,
			 safe location.
(4) You must
			 prohibit all workers supervising or engaged in the handling, hoisting, stowing
			 of explosives, combustible oxidizing materials or flammable materials from
			 smoking, except in designated areas. No person shall smoke within one hundred
			 feet of any location where such materials are handled or stored.
(5) You must take care in chuting packaged
			 explosives to ensure that one package is taken from the mat before starting
			 another. Each package must be completely removed from the mat before another is
			 placed on the chute.
(6) You must
			 construct chutes only of wood in the loading of explosive merchandise in
			 package form where chutes are used. All fastenings shall be of wooden pins,
			 dowelings, or pegs. Metal fastenings may be used, provided they are
			 countersunk.
(7) You must provide a
			 stuffed mattress not less than four inches thick and of sufficient width and
			 length to allow for safe landing of packages at the bottoms of the
			 chutes.
(8) You must sling and
			 secure drafts of hazardous or explosive cargo shall be so slung and secured
			 that neither the draft nor individual packages can fall as a result of tipping
			 the draft or slackening the supporting gear.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  49.17.040 and
				  49.17.050. 86-03-064 (Order
				  86-02), § 296-56-60051, filed 1/17/86; 85-01-022 (Order 84-24), §
				  296-56-60051, filed 12/11/84.