Michigan Administrative Code
Department - Labor and Economic Opportunity
MIOSHA
General Industry and Construction Safety and Occupational Health Standards
Construction Safety and Health Standard
Part 29 - COMMUNICATION TOWERS
Section R. 408.42901 - Scope
Current through Vol. 24-16, September 15, 2024
Rule 2901. These rules shall be applied as follows:
(1) These rules set forth the minimum requirements for employers to protect employees from the hazards associated with working on communication towers, which includes antenna and antenna supporting structures, broadcast, and other similar structures that support communication related equipment, during construction, alteration, repair, operation, inspection, maintenance, and demolition activities.
(2) These rules do not apply to activities performed by electric utilities and their subcontractors for the purpose of internal communications or metering on energized or induced structures related to electric energy, or for generation, control, transformation, transmission, and distribution of electric energy, which are located in buildings used exclusively by the electric utilities for such purposes, or located outdoors on property owned or leased by the electric utilities or on public right of ways; or outdoors by established rights on private property.