WAC 296-806-42004   Provide emergency stops on conveyors.       You must:

     • Make sure each conveyor has an emergency stopping device such as an emergency stop button, pull cord, or similar device.

     • Make sure each emergency stopping device meets all of the following requirements. They must:

     – Stop the conveyor a safe distance from the hazard.

     – Be easily identified.

     – Directly control that conveyor.

     – Require a manual reset.

     – NOT be overridden from another location.

     – NOT require other equipment to be stopped in order to stop the conveyor.

     • Make sure where there is the possibility of an employee falling onto a conveyor, that the emergency stopping device for conveyors feeding or dumping into a hazardous machine such as a barker, saw, hog, or chipper is at least one of the following:

     – Under the continuous control of an operator who cannot fall onto the conveyor and has full view of the material entrance;

     OR

     – Located where it can be reached from a sitting position on the conveyor where it feeds or dumps into the hazardous machine.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, and 49.17.060. 04-14-028, § 296-806-42004, filed 6/29/04, effective 1/1/05.]