Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) Scope.
The purpose of these safety requirements is to provide
reasonable safety for life, limb and health of employees. In cases of practical
difficulty or unnecessary hardship, the Ohio bureau of workers' compensation
may grant exceptions from the literal provisions of these requirements or
permit the use of other devices or methods when, in the opinion of the
superintendent of the division of safety and hygiene, equivalent protection is
thereby secured.
These specific requirements supplement Chapter 4123:1-5 of the
Administrative Code, "Specific Safety Requirements of the Ohio Bureau of
Workers' Compensation Relating to All Workshops and Factories," and are minimum
requirements of an employer for the protection of such employer's employees and
no others and apply to places of employment wherein laundering or drycleaning
processes are performed.
Installations or constructions built or contracted for prior to
the effective date of any requirement shall be deemed to comply with the
provisions of these requirements if such installations or constructions comply
either with the provisions of these requirements or with the provisions of any
applicable specific requirement which was in effect at the time contracted for
or built.
(B) Definitions.
(1) "Air contaminants," as used in this rule,
means hazardous concentrations of fibrosis-producing toxic dusts, toxic fumes,
toxic mists, toxic vapors, or toxic gases, or a combination of these, suspended
in the atmosphere.
(2) "Approved"
means accepted or certified by a nationally recognized testing agency, such as
"Underwriters' Laboratories," "Factory Mutual Engineering Corporation," or a
responsible governmental agency.
(3) "Centrifugal extractor" means a machine
used for removing moisture from textile articles by centrifugal
action.
(4) "Drycleaning" means
the process of removing dirt, grease,
paints, and other stains from such items as wearing apparel, textiles, fabrics,
and rugs by the use of nonaqueous liquids (solvents, nonwater
based).
(5) "Drying box or
cabinet" means a heated, stationary enclosure used for drying, smoothing, or
finishing textile articles.
(6)
"Flammable liquid" means
a liquid having a closed
cup flashpoint below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (thirty-eight
degrees Celsius) Flammable liquids
are further categorized into a group known as class I
liquids.
The
class I
category is subdivided as
follows:
(a)
"Class IA"
are liquids having
a
flashpoint below seventy-three degrees Fahrenheit (twenty-three
degrees Celsius) and having a boiling point below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (
thirty-eight
degrees Celsius.)
(b)
"Class IB"
are liquids having
a
flashpoint below seventy-three degrees Fahrenheit (twenty-three
degrees Celsius) and having a boiling point at or above one hundred degrees
Fahrenheit (thirty-eight degrees Celsius.)
(c)
"Class
IC"
are liquids having
a
flashpoint at or above seventy-three degrees Fahrenheit (twenty-three
degrees Celsius) and below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (
thirty-eight
degrees Celsius.)
(7) "Guard" means the covering, fencing,
railing, or enclosure which shields an object from accidental
contact.
(8) "Guarded" means that
the object is covered, fenced, railed, enclosed or otherwise shielded from
accidental contact.
(9) "Ironer"
means a machine with one or more rolls or heated surfaces used for drying,
ironing, or smoothing textile articles.
(10) "Laundry press" or "drycleaning press"
means a machine on which textile articles are dried or finished between two
surfaces pressed together.
(11)
"Nonflammable liquid" means any liquid or mixture of liquids which in its
original state, or after continued use or agitation, or by distillation, will
not burn in a closed cup tester, or which in any state, when mixed with air,
gives off vapors which are noncombustible or nonexplosive.
(12) "Operator" means any employee assigned
or authorized to work at the specific equipment.
(13) "Puff iron" means a heated device for
smoothing or shaping textile articles.
(14) "Shall" is to be construed as
mandatory.
(15) "Squeeze extractor"
means any mechanically, pneumatically, or hydraulically operated compacting
machine for removing excess liquid from textile articles by
squeezing.
(16) "Still" means an
appliance that receives contaminated
flammable or combustible liquids or vapors and which distills the contents to
remove contaminants and recover the solvents in the drycleaning
process.
(17) "Substantial"
means construction or such strength, of such materials, and of such workmanship
that the object will withstand the wear, usage or shock for which it is
designed.
(18) "Tumbler" means a
machine in which textile articles are shaken out or dried by tumbling within a
rotating cylinder.
(19)
"Washer/extractor" means any machine in which the washing and extraction
operations are performed.
(20)
"Wringer" means one or more power-driven rolls used for removing excess
liquid.
