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Wednesday, December 28, 1960 FEDERAL REGISTER 13811 60-304.213 Portable circular save. minimum safety and health standards (e) Compliance with the standards 50-204.213 $0-204.314 60-304.216 60-204.210 60-2041217 Bead save and band resaws. Jointers. Wood shapers, band-feed panel raisers and similar machines. Planing, molding, sticking and matching machines. Sanding machines. Houskkzxfino 60-304.330 80-204.230 50-204.231 60-204.232 60-2042233 S0-204.234 General. Floors. Flammable materials. Toole and other materials. Receptacles for waste disposal. Sweeping and refuse removal. Tomer Facilities and Wash Rooms 60-304.339 Separate toilet for each sex. 60-304.240 Location, 60-304441 Water closets. 60-804443 Construction of toilet rooms. 60-304443 Chemical closets and privies. 50-304444 Washing faculties. 60-304446 Change rooms. 60-304.940 Retiring rooms for women. Lunch Rooms and Food Handling 00-304401 Location. 00-304463 Waste food disposal. 60-804468 Presence of toxic materials. Dmnkino Water 00-304469 Potable water. 00-204409 Non-potable water. MdiCal SebvIcss 00-304.304 Medical services. Era Protection 00-304409 Qenerai requirement. 60-304470 First-aid for chemical burns. ENVmoMMSNTAL CONDITIONS 00-204476 Toxic gases, vapors, fumes, dust and mists. 60-304470 Threshold limit values. which will be applied In the administra tion and enforcement of the Aot, In cluding proceedings under its section 5 and 41 CFR Part 50-203, Subpart A, to determine whether particular contracts subject to the Act arc being, or have been, performed In compliance wftb Its safely and health requirements. (b> In all administrative, enforce ment, and investigative proceedings con ducted by the United States Department of Labor under the Aot, official notice will be taken of the fact that failure to comply with the requirements expressed In this Part 60-204 of this chapter results In working conditions which are "unsan itary or hazardous to employees" within the meaning of section 1(e) of the Act, and contracts Incorporating the stipula tion It requires. (c) m formal enforcement proceed ings under section 5 of the Act, respond ents will be permitted to demonstrate, by reliable, substantial, and probative evidence, that their failure to comply with the requirements expressed in Past 50-204 of this chapter did not result In working conditions which were "unsani tary or hazardous or dangerous to em ployees," but only if the answer to the complaint, filed under 41 CTO 60-203.3, makes express allegation to that effect. Identifying the particular code unit challenged and setting out the factual baeis for the challenge, in the event such issue Is drawn, and reliable, sub stantial, and probative evidence Is intro duced In support of the challenge, the pertinent portions of the publications of the American Standards Association, Inc., American Society of Mechanical expressed In Port 60-204 of this chapter will not relieve anyone from any obliga tion to comply with any more strict standard stemming from any other source whatsoever. Buildincs and Appurtenances 50-204.2 Buildings. Buildings and all appurtenances there to, including bridges, towers, balconies, runways, and platforms, shall be struc turally safe to prevent collapse. g 50-204.3 Floors. (a) No floor or platform shall be so loaded as to have a factor of safety of less than four. That Is. the weight placed upon a floor or platform shall not exceed one-fourth of the breaking strength of the platform or floor. (b) Floors, other than those resting directly on solid ground, when used for heavy storage shall be clearly posted to show maximum safe floor loads. (c) All floor surfaces shall be kept clean and dry and maintained In a smooth (free from holes or projections that might cause tripping and reason ably nonsllppery) condition. (d) Where the type of operation ne cessitates working on floor areas which would be otherwise wet or slippery, such areas shall be covered with mat*, grates, cleats, or other high friction floor coverings. (e) Safe means of access, suited to conditions, shall be provided to every overhead point to which employees are called upon to go in connection with their employment. Ventilation Engineers, National Fire Protection As g 50-204.4 Building egress. 80-204480 60-204480 General ventilation and temper ature requirement. Local exhaust ventilation. None sociation, National Board of Fire Under writers, the Public Health Service of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Bureau of Mines of the United States Department (a) Exits. Not less than two means of egress (other than ladders or eleva tors) as remote from each other as possible, shall be provided on every floor, 60-304498 Noise. of the Interior, and the Atomic Energy Including basements and cellars of every ' Pkssonal Protective Equipment 60-304498 Personal protective equipment. Commission will be considered, together building or section where persons are with any other evidence that may be ad employed. On the street floor at least duced in support of the regulation, on one of these shall be a door leading di Mining the issue whether the preponderance of rectly outside the building, and the other 60-304400 Federal Mine Safety code. AuthoxitT: 1160-304.1 to 80-204400 le aned under see. 4, 49 Stat. 3088, 41 US.G. 88. Interpret or apply see. l. 49 Stat. 3036. 41 GAO. 38. 50-204.1 Scope and application. the reliable, substantial, and probative evidence supports a finding that the working conditions prohibited in the reg ulation are unsanitary or hazardous or dangerous to the health and safety of employees. (d) The standards expressed in Part may be a door leading outside the building, or a standard horizontal exit. On upper floors and basements, one exit shall be an enclosed stairway or smokeproof tower and the other or others may be inside stairways or horizontal exits or Are escape stairs. (a)The Walsh-Healey Public Con tracts Act (40 Stat. 3036, 41 U.S.C. 35 50-204 of this chapter are for applica tion to ordinary employment situations, (b) Exit doors. Doors shall swing in the direction of exit and open in such et seq.) requires that contracts entered Into by any agency of the United States for the manufacture or furnishing of and do not preclude proof or recogni tion of the necessity of higher standards for employment situations of extraor a manner as not to obstruct passage ways or corridors used as ways of egress. No chairs or seats, fixtures, chutes, ma materials, supplies, articles, and equip ment In any amount exceeding 810,000 must contain, among other provisions, a stipulation that "No part of such con tract will be performed nor will any of the materials, supplies, articles, or equip ment to be manufactured or furnished under said contraot be manufactured or fabricated In any plants, factories, build ings or surroundings or under working conditions which are unsanitary or haz dinary hazard. Neither do the standards expressed In this Part 60-204 of this chapter purpart to describe all of the working conditions which are unsani tary or hazardous or dangerous to the health and safety of employees. Other working conditions may be found to be unsanitary or hazardous or dangerous to the health and safety of employees on evidence to that effect, or without such terials, or equipment shah block or In any way jeopardize the use of ways and means provided for egress. All exit doors and windows used as means of 681*683 in case of fire or panic shall be so arranged as always to be opened readily from the inside. Locks on doors and windows, if provided, shall not re quire the use ol a key to open (c) Exit eigne. All exits or means of egress shall be provided with a sign hav ardous or dangerous to the health and evidence, where such unsanitary or ing on it the word "EXTr* which shall safety of employees engaged in the per hazardous or dangerous characteristic be in letters at least five inches in height formance of the contract." This Part should be apparent to a rational and and plainly Indicate to persons within 50-204 of this chapter expresses certain prudent person of common experience. the building the location of such egress.