Specialized Industries

Logging, mining, telecommunications, grain handling, shipyards, laboratories and agriculture.

Cotton Dust Safety

Learn what the cotton dust rule means for you as a textile mill worker: your dust limit, how dust is measured, the cleaning practices that keep it down, respirators, medical exams and training.

Coke Oven Emissions Safety

Learn the regulated areas, exposure limit and signs, when to wear a respirator and protective clothing, the hygiene rules, and your medical exams and rights as a worker in a coke oven regulated area.

Bakery Equipment Safety

Learn the guards, stop devices, lockouts and oven rules that protect you at mixers, dough machines, ovens and flour bins in a bakery.

Telecommunications Work Safety

For telecom technicians, line workers and splicers: who the rule covers, training and certification, public work areas, PPE and rubber insulating equipment, climbing and fall protection, poles and strand, grounding, power line approach, and manholes…

Shipyard Welding, Cutting and Heating

For shipyard welders, burners, fitters and helpers: ventilation and respirators for fumes and toxic metals, preservative coatings, hollow structures, compressed gas cylinders, fuel gas, hoses and torches, and arc welding cables, grounds and shielding.

Shipyard Confined and Enclosed Spaces

For shipyard employees who enter tanks, holds, voids and other confined or enclosed spaces: testing order (oxygen, flammability, toxicity), limits and warning labels, entrant training, rescue teams, cleaning and cold work, hot work certificates, and…

Logging Operations Safety

For loggers, equipment operators and supervisors: PPE including chaps and boots, first aid, work area spacing and signaling, chain saw rules, machine and vehicle safety, felling with a retreat path, danger trees, limbing and bucking,…

Grain Handling Facilities Safety

For employees and supervisors at grain elevators, feed mills, flour mills and similar facilities: training, hot work permits, bin, silo and tank entry, flat storage entry, engulfment protection, housekeeping and dust, preventive maintenance and lockout,…

Commercial Diving in Construction: Dive Team and Dive Procedures

For dive team members on construction projects: scope, dive team qualifications and the person-in-charge, the safe practices manual, pre-dive planning and briefing, procedures during the dive (communications, tools, welding, explosives, terminating a dive) and post-dive…

Anhydrous Ammonia Storage and Handling

For employees who store, transfer, deliver or apply anhydrous ammonia: where the rule applies, container location and markings, gas masks and emergency water, filling limits, attended transfers, hose protection, tank car unloading, and farm vehicle…

Mine Safety New Miner Awareness (Part 46)

For new and newly hired miners at aggregate and other surface mines covered by Part 46: know the training your operator must give you and when, what it covers, and how to check that it…

Chemical Hygiene in Laboratories

For laboratory workers who use hazardous chemicals: know what your Chemical Hygiene Plan covers and where it is, detect and recognize chemical hazards, use the hood and other controls the plan requires, and know your…
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Photos: Brooks Hubbard IV, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District (public domain, via DVIDS) · Rachel Landers, Office in Charge of Construction Marine Corps Marianas (public domain, via DVIDS) · Petty Officer 2nd Class Luke Cunningham, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 (public domain, via DVIDS) · Senior Airman Victoria Boyton, 4th Fighter Wing (public domain, via DVIDS) · Mario Icari, U.S. Navy (public domain, via DVIDS) · Gerald Rogers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District (public domain, via DVIDS) · Lance Cpl. Sav Ford, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (public domain, via DVIDS) · Airman 1st Class Kathryn Reaves, 20th Fighter Wing (public domain, via DVIDS) · Rachel Landers, Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz (NAVFAC Marianas) (public domain, via DVIDS) · Senior Airman Gage Daniel, Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (public domain, via DVIDS) · Scott Hansen, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility (public domain, via DVIDS)