- Standard Number:
1926.20
- Standard Title:
General safety and health provisions.
- SubPart Number:
- C SubPart
Title: General Safety and Health Provisions
(a) Contractor
requirements.
(a)(1)
Section 107 of
the Act requires that it shall be a condition of each contract
which is entered into under legislation subject to Reorganization
Plan Number 14 of 1950 (64 Stat. 1267), as defined in 1926.12,
and is for construction, alteration, and/or repair, including
painting and decorating, that no contractor or subcontractor
for any part of the contract work shall require any laborer
or mechanic employed in the performance of the contract to work
in surroundings or under working conditions which are unsanitary,
hazardous, or dangerous to his health or safety.
(b) Accident
prevention responsibilities.
(b)(1) It shall
be the responsibility of the employer to initiate and maintain
such programs as may be necessary to comply with this part.
(b)(2)
Such programs
shall provide for frequent and regular inspections of the job
sites, materials, and equipment to be made by competent persons
designated by the employers. ..1926.20(b)(3)
(b)(3)
The use of any
machinery, tool, material, or equipment which is not in compliance
with any applicable requirement of this part is prohibited.
Such machine, tool, material, or equipment shall either be identified
as unsafe by tagging or locking the controls to render them
inoperable or shall be physically removed from its place of
operation.
(b)(4)
The employer
shall permit only those employees qualified by training or experience
to operate equipment and machinery.
(c)
The standards
contained in this part shall apply with respect to employments
performed in a workplace in a State, the District of Columbia,
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American
Samoa, Guam, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Wake Island,
Outer Continental Shelf lands defined in the Outer Continental
Shelf Lands Act, Johnston Island, and the Canal Zone.
(d)
(d)(1)
If a particular
standard is specifically applicable to a condition, practice,
means, method, operation, or process, it shall prevail over
any different general standard which might otherwise be applicable
to the same condition, practice, means, method, operation, or
process.
(d)(2)
On the other
hand, any standard shall apply according to its terms to any
employment and place of employment in any industry, even though
particular standards are also prescribed for the industry to
the extent that none of such particular standards applies.
..1926.20(e)
(e)
In the event
a standard protects on its face a class of persons larger than
employees, the standard shall be applicable under this part
only to employees and their employment and places of employment
. [44 FR 8577,
Feb. 9, 1979; 44 FR 20940, Apr. 6, 1979, as amended at 58 FR
35078; June 30, 1993]
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