California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety
Subchapter 7 - General Industry Safety Orders
Group 8 - Points of Operation and Other Hazardous Parts of Machinery
Article 54 - Scope and General Definitions
Section 4184 - Guarding Required
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Machines as specifically covered hereafter in Group 8, having a grinding, shearing, punching, pressing, squeezing, drawing, cutting, rolling, mixing or similar action, in which an employee comes within the danger zone shall be guarded at the point of operation in one or a combination of the ways specified in the following orders, or by other means or methods which will provide equivalent protection for the employee.
(b) All machines or parts of machines, used in any industry or type of work not specifically covered in Group 8, which present similar hazards as the machines covered under these point of operation orders, shall be guarded at their point of operation as required by the regulations contained in Group 8.
EXCEPTION: Microtomes (also called histotomes or cryostats) when guarding as required in Section 4184 is infeasible and the microtome is used, operated and maintained in accordance with Section 3558 of these Orders. For the purposes of this Exception guarding as required in Section 4184 is infeasible under circumstances that include, but are not limited to the following: there is no point-of-operation guard commercially available for an employer's microtome.
1.
Repealer and new section filed 10-25-74; effective thirtieth day thereafter
(Register 74, No. 43).
2. Amendment filed 4-27-79; effective
thirtieth day thereafter (Register 79, No. 17).
3. Renumbering of
Section 4185 to Section 4184 filed
11-16-79; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 79, No.
46).
4. Amendment of Group 8 title filed 2-20-80; effective
thirtieth day thereafter (Register 80, No. 8).
5. Amendment filed
10-31-85; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 85, No.
44).
6. New EXCEPTION to subsection (b) filed 8-7-2012; operative
9-6-2012 (Register 2012, No. 32).
Note: Authority cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor Code.
