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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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2.  Paragraph (d) - General Requirements

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(4) Paragraph (d)(1)(vii) - Eye and Face protection. The employer must assure that each employee who is at risk of eye and face injury wear protection meeting the requirements of subpart I of Part 1910. For example, some employees (e.g., machine maintenance employees), may only need eye protection to guard against injury.

(a) In other logging operations such as, but not limited to, chipper operations, and cutting limbs, branches and spring poles, face protection must be worn because there is a potential for facial injury (e.g., flying wood, needles, and splinters; cutting limbs and springpoles; moving through dense underbrush). For operations such as chipping, face protection must meet the requirements of subpart I.

(b) For chain-saw operations, logger-type mesh face screens may be worn even though most logger-type mesh face screens do not meet the requirements of Subpart I. They do not comply with the referenced ANSI standards, ANSI Z87.1-989 or ANSI Z87.1-1968 because they are not able to pass the impact and penetration resistance tests required by the ANSI standard. In chain-saw operations however, there is not the same hazard of objects hitting the face screen at a high speed or penetrating through the mesh openings. Mesh screens provide adequate protection to keep small limbs, branches, and saplings from poking the employee's eye or cutting the employee's face when the employee is moving through the woods, yet do not restrict vision in wet weather or fog up. Face protection comprised of mesh screens is readily available in the industry.

(c) Where both eye and face protection is necessary, and the employee is provided with face PPE that protects both eyes and face, the employee is not also required to wear separate eye protection.

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