Do not allow personnel with arthritis, neuritis, or
circulatory diseases to use vibrating tools such as
hammers, tampers, riveters, or caulkers.
PROTECTIVE CLOTHING AND
SAFETY EQUIPMENT
Based on NAVOSH Manual for Forces
Afloat, OPNAVINST 5100.19B, you must see
that your personnel know and observe safety
precautions.
work, you
is safe and
fitted with
ment.
Before allowing personnel to begin
must make sure the work site
that personnel are properly out-
protective clothing and equip-
To comply with NAVOSH requirements,
inspect your people before allowing them to
operate rotating machinery. Make sure they
are not wearing loose or torn clothing, neck-
ties, neck chains, unbuttoned long sleeve
shirts, rings, beads, or bracelets. When your
people operate power-driven industrial tools
or equipment, ensure they wear approved
safety glasses with side shields, goggles, or
face shields. If they are working in foot-
hazardous areas, require them to wear safety
shoes with a built-in protective steel toe.
Do not allow them to wear shoes made of
materials that can easily melt or catch fire
when in hot-work areas. Require them to
wear the following special safety footwear as
follows:
1. Semiconductive safety shoes to dissipate
static electricity
2. Molders’ “congress” style safety shoes
when handling molten metal and oxygen or
nitrogen plant operations
3. Rubber or synthetic material safety-toe
boots for protection against acids, caustics,
and other liquid chemical hazards
Check to see that personnel wear proper hand
protection. For example, they should wear leather
gloves when handling sharp materials or hot work.
They need to wear electrical-grade insulating rub-
ber gloves when handling electrical circuits or
caustic or toxic chemicals. Personnel also must
wear proper ear protection when working with
tools or machinery that produces hazardous noise
levels.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
While personnel in confined and limited
spaces aboard ship can use hazardous ma-
terials safely, they must use extra precau-
tions in handling and storing them. Handling,
storing, or using hazardous materials can
present a danger to personnel, property, or
the environment. Hazardous materials mishaps
can result in fires or in the release of poisonous
vapors in unventilated spaces. The use or
storage of the following materials is prohib-
ited aboard all ships except in authorized
areas such as medical department pharmacies,
clinical and chemical laboratories, and cargo
spaces:
Trichlorethylene (Used only by ships
having equipment designed for its use)
Benzene (benzol)
Beta naphthylamine
Carbon tetrachloride
DDT xylene emulsion
Hydrocyanic acid gas
Insecticides or DDT
Methyl bromide
Plastic trash cans
Tetrachloroethane
Dry-cleaning solvent (Stoddard solvent),
Type I, of FED SPEC P-D-680
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