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Text from the OSHA Logging Compliance Directive, CPL 2-1.22 Text from the OSHA Logging Compliance Directive, CPL 2-1.22

J.  Definitions and clarifications

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5. Paragraph (d)(6) - Workareas

a. Paragraph (d)(6)(iii) - Working within visual or audible contact. This provision of the final rule applies to each employee working at a logging worksite, including watchmen and other employees performing logging operations at remote logging worksites. The final rule has been revised to indicate that the requirement does not apply to vehicle operators who are not at the logging site, but only to vehicle operators while they are at a logging worksite.

b. Paragraph (d)(6)(iv) - End of workshift accounting of employees. The final rule requires that the employer account for each employee at the end of each workshift. The employer need not personally conduct the actual end of shift accounting of each employee, but may delegate this task. The employer remains ultimately responsible under the standard for assuring that employees are not inadvertently left in the woods.

c. The standard does not require employers to prohibit employees from remaining at the work site after the end of the work shift to engage in personal activities, such as hunting, camping, or cutting fire wood for personal use. Rather, OSHA's intent is to assure that no employee, particularly an injured employee, be inadvertently left in the woods without assistance.

After the workshift has ended and the employer has ascertained that the employee is done with work, including overtime work, and is safely accounted for, the standard does not prohibit the employer from allowing employees to remain in the area for personal reasons.

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