Motor Vehicles, Mechanized Equipment for Construction

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Motor Vehicles, Mechanized Equipment for
Construction
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Signs and symbols

• Visible at all times
• Danger signs
• Caution signs

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Exit signs

• Legible red letters
• Six inches high
• Three-fourths inch in width

2a
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Safety instruction signs/directional signs

• Safety instruction signs
• Directional signs

3a
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Traffic signs

• Use at points of hazard
• Follow ANSI D6.1-1971

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Accident prevention tags

• Temporary means of warning employees
• Not be used in place of accident prevention signs

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Requirements for flagmen

• Requirements for flagmen
• Follow ANSI D6.1-1971
• Red flags at least 18 inches square

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Requirements for flagmen

• Sign paddles
• In darknessred lights
• Warning garment

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Barricades

• Protection of employees
• Conform to ANSI D6.1-1971

7a
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Construction equipment

• Unattended at night
• Adjacent to a highway

8a
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Construction equipment

• Adjacent to construction areas
• Provide lights or reflectors

8b
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Tire mounting

• Inflating
• Mounting
• Dismounting

9a
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Tire mounting

• Split rims
• Rims with locking rings

9b
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Tire mounting safety equipment

• Tire rack
• Safety cage
• Equivalent protection

9c
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Suspended machinery or equipment

• Block or crib machinery
• Slings, hoists, or jacks
• Before working under

10a
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Bulldozer blades/dump bodies

• Fully lower or block
• Bulldozer/scraper blades
• End-loader buckets
• Dump bodies

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Bulldozer blades/dump bodies

• Being repaired
• When not in use
• Controls in neutral position
• Motors stopped/brakes set

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Equipment parked on inclines

• Chock wheels
• Set parking brake

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Working around power lines

• Comply with 1926.550(a)(15)
• Working or moving equipment
• Near power lines/energized transmitters

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Motor vehicle inspection

• Operate on an off-highway jobsite
• Not open to public traffic
• Beginning of each shift

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Inspect for

• Service brakes
• Trailer brake connections
• Hand brake

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Inspect for

• Brakes
• Tires
• Horn

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Inspect for

• Steering mechanism
• Coupling devices
• Seat belts

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Inspect for

• Operating controls
• Safety devices

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Inspect for

• Lights
• Reflectors
• Windshield wipers

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Inspect for

• Defrosters
• Fire extinguishers
• Other equipment

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Correct all defects

• Before vehicle is placed in service

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Operating a vehicle in reverse

• Earthmoving equipment
• Scrapers
• Loaders

13a
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Operating a vehicle in reverse

• Crawler or wheel tractors
• Bulldozers
• Off-highway trucks

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Operating a vehicle in reverse

• Graders
• Agricultural/industrial tractors

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Operating a vehicle in reverse

• Similar equipment
• Obstructed view to the rear

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Do if

• The equipment has a reverse signal alarm
  distinguishable from the surrounding noise level,
  or
• An employee signals that it is safe to do so

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Riding on forklifts

• Authorized to do so
• Safe place to ride

14a
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Forklift operator training

• Identical to 1910.178(l)

15a
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Pile driving operations

• Accept signals from signalmen
• Hoisting piling/keep employees clear
• Cutting off driven piles
• Driving jacked piles

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Site clearing operations

• Protect from hazards
• Instructed in first aid

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Rollover protective structures

• Self-propelled scrapers
• Front-end loaders
• Dozers

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Rollover protective structures

• Industrial tractors
• Crawler tractors
• Crawler-type loaders
• Motor graders

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ROPS do not apply to

• Sideboom pipe laying tractors
• Compactors
• Rubber-tired skid-steers

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Info affixed to ROPS

• Mfg name and address
• Model number
• Equipment designed to fit

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Overhead protection for tractors

• Solid material
• Grid or mesh
• Not a hazard

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