Section R614-6-7 - Hot Metallurgical OperationsA. The purpose of this rule is to cover the minimum standards and requirements for the safe operation and maintenance of all types of facilities associated with Hot Metallurgical Operations. Other Safety Rules and Regulations must be complied with when and if they apply to these operations. Furthermore, it is not the intent of this rule to make specific rules to cover every hazard of an operation. Each operation shall be analyzed for hazards peculiar to that operation and then Safe Operating Rules and Procedures Shall Be Provided and Administered by Management.B. Provisions shall be made for on-the-job training of personnel to insure a safe operation.C. Work shoes or leather boots with a minimum height of six (6) inches shall be worn by personnel working around molten metal or other hot process materials. Safety shoes are recommended. Special protective equipment shall be provided and worn as required.D. In areas where employees are exposed to toxic and nuisance gases and dusts, adequate ventilating and collecting systems shall be provided to insure that such toxic and nuisance gases and dusts are maintained within the recommended maximum allowable concentration as proposed and adopted by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. Where this cannot be accomplished and employees are required to work in excessive concentrations, NIOSH approved respirators or supplied fresh air breathing equipment shall be provided.E. Equipment shall be provided to test for the presence of toxic and nuisance gases and dusts and qualified personnel will make and evaluate such tests.F. Furnaces. 1. Furnace combustion systems shall be equipped with fail safe controls and these controls shall not be by-passed during normal operations. Also emergency shut-off systems for fuel supply shall be provided if necessary.2. Fuel lines and control valves shall be properly identified and accessible.3. To insure the safe operation of stand-by fuel systems, operating instructions shall be posted in a conspicuous and accessible location and employees trained in these procedures.4. Whenever a hazard exists while charging or feeding furnaces or process equipment, an adequate warning system shall be provided and used to warn and protect personnel.5. In processes where water or wet material are necessary to the normal operation of the process, they shall be used only under carefully controlled conditions.6. On multiple hearth furnace operations, where it is required to work on the furnace as a normal operating procedure adequate working platforms shall be provided when working hearth levels more than four (4) feet above normal roster floors.7. Solid decking shall be provided where a hazard exists of free flowing hot material falling from one floor to another.8. Material to be charged into a furnace shall not include items foreign to the normal process that may cause an explosion, such as pressure vessels or closed cylinders.9. Adequate procedures and tools shall be provided and compliance enforced for removal of product from furnace or oven or while working hot process materials. When pipe is used as a tool, the end adjacent to the employee must be sealed.10. Copper matte launders shall be covered whenever practical.11. Unauthorized personnel shall not stand near pots, ladles, furnaces, etc., when molten material is being handled. Warning systems shall be provided and sounded before a pour is made or the material is moved.12. Bails and trunions on ladles and pots used to carry molten material must be tested by nondestructive methods to determine if any flaws exist. The tests are to be made and evaluated by qualified personnel on regular, scheduled periods of not to exceed twelve (12) months and a record maintained of each inspection. Defective components must be removed from service immediately.13. The dumping hook for pots or ladles shall not be attached until the pot or ladle is in the specific area where it is to be dumped.14. Clean-up crews assigned to work in the area of molten metal, hot slag, hot by-products, hot calcine or similar products shall be adequately instructed and supervised concerning hazards of material and location.Utah Admin. Code R614-6-7