Mich. Admin. Code R. 408.13306 - Definitions; S to W

Rule 3306.

(1) "Safety belt" means a device, usually worn around the waist that by reason of its attachment to a lanyard and lifeline or a structure, will prevent a worker from falling.

(2) "Safety factor" means the ratio of the design load and the ultimate strength of the material.

(3) "Safety harness" means a belt with a shoulder strap worn around the waist and shoulder and capable of restraining a pull or fall of an employee.

(4) "Safety strap" means a restraining line secured at both ends to a safety belt or harness to hold an employee to a fixed object.

(5) "Safety toe footwear" means footwear containing a safety toe box of steel or equivalent material capable of meeting the requirements of this part.

(6) "Sanitizing" means an act or process of destroying organisms that may cause disease.

(7) "Self-retracting lifeline or lanyard" means a deceleration device containing a drum-wound line that can be slowly extracted from, or retracted onto, the drum under slight tension during normal movement by the employee. At the onset of a fall, the device automatically locks the drum and arrests the fall.

(8) "Shield" means a device to be held in the hand, or supported without the aid of the operator, whose predominant function is protection of the eyes and face.

(9) "Shell" means the portion of welding helmet or handshield that covers the wearers face and is the part of a helmet which includes the outermost surface.

(10) "Side shield" means a part of, or attachment to, a spectacle that provides side impact-resistance.

(11) "Snaphook" means a connector comprised of a hook-shaped body with a normally closed gate, or similar arrangement that may be manually opened to permit the hook to receive an object. When released, the snaphook automatically closes to retain the object. Opening a snaphook requires 2 separate actions. Snaphooks are generally either of the following types:

(a) Automatic-locking type, which is permitted, with a self-closing and self-locking gate that remains closed and locked until intentionally unlocked and opened for connection or disconnection.

(b) Non-locking type, which is prohibited, with a self-closing gate that remains closed, but not locked, until intentionally opened for connection or disconnection.

(12) "Snood" means a flexible attachment to the back of a hood or helmet for protection against injury to the back of the head and neck.

(13) "Spectacles", also known as safety glasses, means a protective device intended to shield the wearers eyes from certain hazards, depending on the spectacle type; also means a device patterned after conventional-type spectacle eyewear, but of more substantial construction, with or without sideshields, and with plano or corrective impact-resistant lenses of clear or absorptive filter glass or plastic.

(14) "Temple" means the part of a spectacle frame commonly attached to the front and generally extending behind the ear of the wearer.

(15) "Toe guards" means the guards that fit over the toes of regular shoes to protect the toes from impact and compression hazards. These guards may be attached to the outside of shoes.

(16) "Travel restraint," also known as a tether line, means a rope or wire rope used to transfer forces from a body support to an anchorage or anchorage connector in a travel restraint system.

(17) "Travel restraint system" means a combination of an anchorage, anchorage connector, lanyard or other means of connection, and body support that an employer uses to eliminate the possibility of an employee going over the edge of a walking-working surface.

(18) "Welding goggle" means a goggle intended for limited welding applications.

(19) "Welding faceshield" means a faceshield intended for limited welding applications. Faceshields shall be used only in conjunction with spectacles or goggles, or both.

(20) "Welding helmet" means a protective device intended to provide protection for the eyes and face against optical radiation and weld spatter, which shall be worn only in conjunction with spectacles or goggles.

(21) "Window" means the lens portion of a face shield. Lens is defined in R 408.13305(2).

(22) "Window cleaners belt" means a positioning belt that consists of a waist belt, an integral terminal runner or strap, and belt terminals.

(23) "Window cleaners belt anchor", also known as window anchor, means specifically designed fall-preventing attachment points permanently affixed to a window frame or to a building part immediately adjacent to the window frame, for direct attachment of the terminal portion of a window cleaners belt.

(24) "Window cleaner's positioning system" means a system that consists of a window cleaner's belt secured to window anchors.

(25) "Work-positioning system" means the same as "positioning system."

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Mich. Admin. Code R. 408.13306

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