California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety
Subchapter 14 - Petroleum Safety Orders-Drilling and Production
Article 28 - Ladders and Ladderway Openings for Derricks and Masts
Section 6600 - Pole Steps for Gin Pole Masts
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Pole steps so arranged as to provide access from the ground or floor level, or from a base landing platform on the bed of the vehicle on which the mast is mounted, to each platform on the mast shall comply with the requirements in subsections (b) and (d) of this section. (See accompanying illustration for pole steps for portable and stationary gin pole masts.)
(b) When an employee has to perform any duty at the crown block level of a telescoping type gin pole mast in its operating position at a well, the upper section of the mast shall be lowered to a point where the duties can be performed from the pole steps on the lower section of the mast, unless access is provided to the crown block by means of a fixed ladder having a safety cage at the crown block level. (See accompanying illustration for pole steps for portable and stationary gin pole masts.)
(c) Ladder cages are not required on any portable or stationary gin pole mast except as provided for in subsection (b) of this section.
(d) Pole steps, as provided for in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, are acceptable as a type of ladder on the leg or legs of a gin pole mast if the leg is not more than sixteen inches (16") in diameter and the steps are constructed and installed as follows:
Diagram relocated at the bottom of Section 6600
For stirrup type steps, this minimum, clear length, shall be maintained to a distance of at least four inches (4") above the tread surface of the step before the material is curved or tapered toward the mast.
The steps on each side of the mast shall be in vertical alignment.
1.
Amendment of section heading and section, and new NOTE filed 5-8-95; operative
6-7-95 (Register 95, No. 19).
2. Change without regulatory effect
providing more legible illustrations filed 3-2-2009 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2009, No. 10).
Note: Authority cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor Code.
