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(b) Attach to the personnel cage. The
employers must attach safety clamps to
each personnel cage for gripping the
guide ropes.
(c) Operation. The safety clamps
attached to the personnel cage must:
(i) Operate on the ‘‘broken rope
principle’’ defined in section 3
(‘‘Definitions’’) of ANSI standard
A10.22–1990 (R1998);
(ii) Be capable of stopping and
holding a personnel cage that is carrying
100 percent of its maximum rated load
and traveling at its maximum allowable
speed if the hoist rope breaks at the
footblock; and
(iii) Use a pre-determined and pre-set
clamping force (i.e., the ‘‘spring
compression force’’) for each hoist
system.
(d) Maintenance. The employers must
keep each safety-clamp assembly clean
and functional at all times.
12. Overhead Protection
(a) The employers must install a
canopy or shield over the top of the
personnel cage that is made of steel
plate at least three-sixteenths (3⁄16) of an
inch (4.763 mm) thick, or material of
equivalent strength and impact
resistance, to protect employees (i.e.,
both inside and outside the chimney)
from material and debris that may fall
from above.
(b) The employers must ensure that
the canopy or shield slopes to the
outside of the personnel cage.3
13. Emergency-Escape Device
(a) Location. The employers must
provide an emergency-escape device in
at least one of the following locations:
(i) In the personnel cage, provided
that the device is long enough to reach
the bottom landing from the highest
possible escape point; or
(ii) At the bottom landing, provided
that a means is available in the
personnel cage for the occupants to raise
the device to the highest possible escape
point.
(b) Operating instructions. The
employers must ensure that written
instructions for operating the
emergency-escape device are attached to
the device.
(c) Training. The employers must
instruct each employee who uses a
personnel cage for transportation on
how to operate the emergency-escape
device:
(i) Before the employee uses a
personnel cage for transportation; and
(ii) Periodically, and as necessary,
thereafter.
3 Paragraphs (a) and (b) were adapted from
OSHA’s Underground Construction Standard
(§ 1926.800(t)(4)(iv)).
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14. Personnel Platforms and FallProtection Equipment
(a) Personnel platforms. When the
employers elect to replace the personnel
cage with a personnel platform in
accordance with Condition 2(a) of this
variance, they must:
(i) Ensure that an enclosure surrounds
the platform, and that this enclosure is
at least 42 inches (106.7 cm) above the
platform’s floor;
(ii) Provide overhead protection when
an overhead hazard is, or could be,
present; and
(iii) Comply with the applicable
scaffolding strength requirements
specified by § 1926.451(a)(1).
(b) Fall-protection equipment. Before
employees use work platforms or
boatswains’ chairs, the employers must:
(i) Equip the employees with, and
ensure that they use, full body
harnesses, lanyards, and lifelines as
specified by § 1926.104 and the
applicable requirements of
§ 1926.502(d);
(ii) Secure the lifelines to the top of
the chimney and to a weight at the
bottom of the chimney; and
(iii) Ensure that employees attach
their lanyards to the lifeline during the
entire period of vertical transit.
15. Inspections, Tests, and Accident
Prevention
(a) The employers must:
(i) Conduct inspections of the hoist
system as required by § 1926.20(b)(2);
(ii) Ensure that a competent person
conducts daily visual inspections of the
hoist system; and
(iii) Inspect and test the hoist system
as specified by § 1926.552(c)(15).
(b) The employers must comply with
the accident-prevention requirements of
§ 1926.20(b)(3).
16. Welding
(a) The employers must use only
qualified welders to weld components
of the hoisting system.
(b) The employers must ensure that
the qualified welders:
(i) Are familiar with the weld grades,
types, and materials specified in the
design of the system; and
(ii) Perform the welding tasks in
accordance with 29 CFR part 1926,
subpart J (‘‘Welding and Cutting’’).
VII. Authority and Signature
Jonathan L. Snare, Acting Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health, U.S. Department of
Labor, 200 Constitution Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC directed the
preparation of this notice. This notice is
issued under the authority specified by
section 6(d) of the Occupational Safety
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and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 655),
Secretary of Labor’s Order No. 5–2002
(67 FR 65008), and 29 CFR part 1905.
Signed at Washington, DC, on November
28, 2005.
Jonathan L. Snare,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor.
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SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[Notice ( 05–155)]
Notice of Prospective Patent License
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice of prospective patent
license.
SUMMARY: NASA hereby gives notice
that BCG Wireless of Washington, DC
has applied for a partially exclusive
license to practice the inventions
described and claimed in U.S. Patent
No. 5,983,162, entitled ‘‘Computer
Implemented Empirical Mode
Decomposition Method, Apparatus and
Article of Manufacture,’’ and U.S. Patent
No. 6,631,325, entitled ‘‘Computer
Implemented Empirical Mode Decomposition Method Apparatus, and Article
of Manufacture Utilizing Curvature
Extrema,’’ and U.S. Patent No.
6,901,353, entitled ‘‘Computing
Instantaneous Frequency by
Normalizing Hilbert Transform,’’ which
are assigned to the United States of
America as represented by the
Administrator of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Written objections to the prospective
grant of a license should be sent to
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
NASA has not yet made a determination
to grant the requested license and may
deny the requested license even if no
objections are submitted within the
comment period.
Responses to this notice must be
received by December 21, 2005.
DATES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Keith Dixon, NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center, Code 140.1, Greenbelt,
MD 20771, (301) 286–7351.
Dated: November 21, 2005.
Keith T. Sefton,
Deputy General Counsel, (Admin. and
Mgmt.).
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[Notice ( 05-155)]
Notice of Prospective Patent License
AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
ACTION: Notice of prospective patent license.
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SUMMARY: NASA hereby gives notice that BCG Wireless of Washington, DC
has applied for a partially exclusive license to practice the
inventions described and claimed in U.S. Patent No. 5,983,162, entitled
``Computer Implemented Empirical Mode Decomposition Method, Apparatus
and Article of Manufacture,'' and U.S. Patent No. 6,631,325, entitled
``Computer Implemented Empirical Mode Decom-position Method Apparatus,
and Article of Manufacture Utilizing Curvature Extrema,'' and U.S.
Patent No. 6,901,353, entitled ``Computing Instantaneous Frequency by
Normalizing Hilbert Transform,'' which are assigned to the United
States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration. Written objections to the
prospective grant of a license should be sent to NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center. NASA has not yet made a determination to grant the
requested license and may deny the requested license even if no
objections are submitted within the comment period.
DATES: Responses to this notice must be received by December 21, 2005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Keith Dixon, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Code 140.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771, (301) 286-7351.
Dated: November 21, 2005.
Keith T. Sefton,
Deputy General Counsel, (Admin. and Mgmt.).
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