WAC 296-806-425   Summary.  If your specific food processing machine or operation is not listed here, then follow any facilities requirements in this section along with the "Requirements for all machines" found in this chapter, WAC 296-806-200 and 296-806-300.

     This section applies to:

     • All businesses that manufacture or process food, whether or not they are contained inside food stores;

     AND

     • The design, installation, operations, and maintenance of machinery and equipment used in the food processing industry.

     Your responsibility:

     To protect employees from hazards associated with food processing facilities and machines.

     You must:

     FACILITIES

     Provide locks on chamber doors of large air conditioning units

     WAC 296-806-42502.

     Use proper door locks on rack-type bread coolers

     WAC 296-806-42504.

     Provide see-through panels on fermentation room doors

     WAC 296-806-42506.

     Cover exposed hot pipes

     WAC 296-806-42508.

     Provide extension piping on stationary lubrication fittings

     WAC 296-806-42510.

     Provide hoods for pan-washing tanks

     WAC 296-806-42512.

     Safeguard proof boxes

     WAC 296-806-42514.

     Safeguard storage bins

     WAC 296-806-42516.

     MATERIAL HANDLING

     Follow these design requirements for bag lifts (bag arm elevators) and chutes

     WAC 296-806-42518.

     Follow these requirements for chain tackle

     WAC 296-806-42520.

     Safeguard conveyors

     WAC 296-806-42522.

     Use properly designed covers for screw conveyors (augers)

     WAC 296-806-42524.

     Safeguard pallet jacks and hand trucks

     WAC 296-806-42526.

     SPECIFIC FOOD PROCESSING EQUIPMENT

     Safeguard bakery slicers

     WAC 296-806-42528.

     Safeguard bakery wrapping machines

     WAC 296-806-42530.

     Provide troughs with antifriction-bearing casters

     WAC 296-806-42532.

     Follow these requirements for trough hoists and similar equipment

     WAC 296-806-42534.

     Follow these requirements for dividers

     WAC 296-806-42536.

     Safeguard manually-fed dough and cross-roll brakes

     WAC 296-806-42538.

     Provide a guard or tripping device on reversible dough brakes

     WAC 296-806-42540.

     Follow these requirements for doughnut machines

     WAC 296-806-42542.

     Follow these requirements for dumpbins and blenders

     WAC 296-806-42544.

     Follow these requirements for flour-handling machines

     WAC 296-806-42546.

     Follow these requirements for traveling or track-type flour scales

     WAC 296-806-42548.

     Follow these requirements for food grinders and cutters

     WAC 296-806-42550.

     Provide covers with interlocks on ingredient premixers, emulsifiers, and similar machines

     WAC 296-806-42552.

     Follow these requirements for open fat kettles

     WAC 296-806-42554.

     Follow these requirements for steam kettles

     WAC 296-806-42556.

     Follow these requirements for chocolate melting, refining, and mixing kettles

     WAC 296-806-42558.

     Safeguard meat-processing equipment (circular meat-cutting saws)

     WAC 296-806-42560.

     Follow these requirements for horizontal dough mixers

     WAC 296-806-42562.

     Follow these requirements for vertical mixers

     WAC 296-806-42564.

     Follow these requirements for mechanical-feed moulders

     WAC 296-806-42566.

     Follow these requirements for hand-fed moulders

     WAC 296-806-42568.

     Design, install, and construct your ovens according to these requirements

     WAC 296-806-42570.

     Properly locate emergency "stop" buttons and main shut off valves for ovens

     WAC 296-806-42572.

     Inspect and test safety devices on ovens

     WAC 296-806-42574.

     Follow these requirements for peanut-cooling trucks

     WAC 296-806-42576.

     Follow these requirements for pretzel-rolling, pretzel-stick extruding, rotary, and die machines

     WAC 296-806-42578.

     Safeguard box and roll-type dough sheeters

     WAC 296-806-42580.

     Provide proper enclosures for sifters

     WAC 296-806-42582.

     Follow these requirements for sugar and spice pulverizers

     WAC 296-806-42584.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, and 49.17.060. 04-14-028, § 296-806-425, filed 6/29/04, effective 1/1/05.]