Walking/working surfaces

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CFR 1910.23—Guarding floor and wall openings and holes [Walking-Working Surfaces]... 

ANSI. Safety Requirements for Workplace Walking Working Surfaces and Their Access Floor, Wall andRoof Openings, Stairs and Guardrail Systems, ANSI/ASSE A1264.1. New York ANSI, 2007. 

Standard for the Provision of Slip Resistance on Walking/Working Surfaces, ANSI/ASSE A1264.2-2006. 

This OSHA provision apphes when there are employees below a walking/working surface or wall opening from which an object cordd fall. 

Toeboards must be a minimum of 3.5 inches tall from their top edge to walking/working surface, have no more than 0.25 inches clearance above the walking/working surface, and be solid or have openings no larger than one inch. 

Toeboards — When toeboards are used as protection from falling objects, they must be erected along the edges of the overhead walking/working surface for a distance sufficient to protect persons working below. 

Each employee on a walking/working surface (horizontal and vertical surface) with an unprotected side or edge which is 6 feet or more above a lower level shall be protected from falling by the use of guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems. 

Good lighting will help avoid stairway hazards. Like any other walking/working surface, it is difScidt to avoid what you cannot see. 

There are requirements that have to be followed when performing work on a flat surface (walking/working surfaces). Walking/working surfaces is broken down into two areas ... 

Other than the exceptions above, each employee on a walking/ working surface with an unprotected side or edge more than 15 feet above a lower level must be protected from fall hazards. 

OSHA s Walking-Working Surfaces mle expected in FY12... 

Walking-Working Surfaces and Fall Protection last year, it was the culmination of a regulatory project that s been brewing for decades. For the members of the Fall Protection Group of the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA), it was a mark of success in efforts to get the agency to focus on protecting workers from falls. 

ISEA members were pleased to see the publication of the Walking-Working Surfaces proposed rule last May. 

A major re-write of the 29 CFR Part 1910 for walking/working surfaces and fall protection systems is in the works. 

In May 2010, OSHA announced that it plans to tighten the standards on walking-working surfaces, which will be designed to help protect against slips, trips and falls in the workplace. 

Appendixes A and B. Each subpart addresses a different major topical area. These areas include such items as Subpart D, Walking-Working Surfaces. This subpart appears in 1910.21-1910.32. Subpart E, Means of Egress, follows in 1910.35-1910.70. Each subpart is further broken down so that when one looks under Subpart E, one will find the subsection 1910.37, Means of Egress, general. The reader can turn to that section to see an explanation of means of egress and find that it is broken down even further. References to specific standards are typically found as follows ... 

General safety hazards such as but not limited to electrical hazards, powered equipment hazards, motor vehicle hazards, walking-working surface hazards, excavation hazards, and hazards associated with working in hot and cold temperature extremes. 

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