Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-155 - Safety standards for construction work › Part L - CRANES, RIGGING, AND PERSONNEL LIFTING › Section 296-155-55300 - Personnel lifting requirements

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) Conditions must provide clear visibility.
				When conditions such as darkness, fog, or snow prevent clear visibility, you
				must not perform a personnel lift.
(2) Personnel platforms cannot be used in
				winds (sustained or gusts) in excess of 20 mph (32.2 km/hr) or in electric
				storms, snow, ice, sleet, or other adverse weather conditions which could
				affect the safety of personnel.
(3)
				Other weather and environmental conditions. A qualified person must determine
				if, in light of indications of dangerous weather conditions, or other impending
				or existing danger, it is not safe to lift personnel. If it is not, you must
				not begin the lifting operation (or, if already in progress, you must terminate
				operations).
(4) You must only use
				personnel platforms for personnel, their tools, and sufficient material to do
				their work. You must not use them solely for transporting bulk
				materials.
(5) The number of
				employees occupying the personnel platform must not exceed the maximum number
				the platform was designed to hold or the number required to perform the work,
				whichever is less.
(6) A qualified
				person must evaluate the safety concerns of the operational environment and
				verify the platform and crane/derrick are suitable for use. Additionally,
				special work circumstances may require further precautions. You must take
				precautions such as, but not limited to, the following:
(a) When welding is to be accomplished from
				the personnel platform, you must provide suitable electrode holders to protect
				them from contact with any conducting components of the platform.
(b) You must instruct operators of
				cranes/derricks, installed on floating vessels, not to lift personnel when the
				list or trim of the vessel exceeds 5 degrees. If a mobile crane/derrick is
				placed on floating vessels, operators must not lift personnel when the list or
				trim of the vessel exceeds one degree.
(c) You must provide personnel fall
				protection devices with quick release features and require them to be worn. The
				fall protection device must be appropriately attached while personnel are
				lifted over land and detached while personnel are lifted over water. See
				chapter 296-880 WAC, Unified safety standards for fall protection for
				requirements for fall arrest system, including the attachment point (anchorage)
				used to comply with this subsection. When personnel lifts are conducted over
				water, you must provide U.S. Coast Guard approved (Type I, II, III, or V)
				personnel flotation devices and require them to be worn.
(d) A boat/skiff with appropriate rescue
				personnel must be readily available at all times during a personnel lift over
				water.
(e) You must provide
				appropriate personnel protective equipment and require it to be used around
				toxic, flammable, or hazardous substances or fumes.
(f) You must review any concentrated loading
				of the platform to preclude the overstressing of any component or impairing the
				platform stability.
(g) Where the
				rotation of the platform, while hoisted, can create a hazard, you must provide
				appropriate restraining methods and require them to be used.