R 408.15211 Employer responsibilities.

Rule 5211. (1) An employer shall do all of the following: (a) Provide training to each employee as to hazards and safe operation of the assigned job. (b) Maintain machinery, equipment, buildings, ramps, platforms, and aisles in a hazard-free condition. When a hazardous condition develops concerning floors, docks, and passageways that cannot be immediately repaired, the area shall be guarded until adequate repairs are made. (c) Provide head protection which shall be used by all employees outside the office, including those in the dry storage area, as prescribed in General Industry Safety and Health Standard Part 33 “Personal Protective Equipment,” as referenced in R 408.15209. (d) Provide, and an employee shall use, eye protection as prescribed in General Industry Safety and Health Standard Part 33 “Personal Protective Equipment,” as referenced in R 408.15209. If impact resistance is not required, the employee may wear a steel wire or nylon mesh screen, or equivalent, mounted on a protective helmet. The screen shall be of sufficient strength to protect the face to below the nose from chips or sawdust from the saw. (e) Provide an approved life jacket to an employee working over water, at no expense to the employee. (f) Install all gas piping and appliances as prescribed in ANSI standard Z21.30 “Installation of Gas Appliances and Gas Piping,” 1964 edition, as referenced in R 408.15209. (2) Physical hazard color identification marking shall be in accordance with the following requirements: (a) Red shall be the basic color for the identification of any of the following: (i) Fire protection equipment and apparatus. (ii) Danger, such as any of the following: (A) Safety cans or other portable containers of flammable liquids having a flash point at or below 80º F. (B) Table containers of flammable liquids, open cup tester, excluding shipping containers, shall be painted red with some additional clearly visible identification either in the form of a yellow band around the can or the name of the contents conspicuously stenciled or painted on the can in yellow. (C) Red lights shall be provided at barricades and at temporary obstructions. (D) Danger signs shall be painted red. (iii) Stop, shall apply to both of the following: (A) Emergency stop bars on hazardous machines such as rubber mills, wire blocks, flat work ironers, and others, shall be red. (B) Stop buttons or electrical switches where letters or other markings appear, and are used for emergency stopping of machinery shall be red. (b) Yellow shall be the basic color for designating caution and for marking physical hazards for as any of the following: (i) Striking against. (ii) Stumbling. (iii) Falling. (iv) Tripping. (v) "Caught in between."