(Effective until October 1, 2020)

PDFWAC 296-24-73511

Steam pipes.

(1) You must ensure that all steam pipes or pipes heated by any other means to a sufficient temperature to burn a person (other than coil pipes, radiators, for heating rooms or buildings, or pipes on portable steam engines and boilers) and which are within seven feet of a floor or platform, if exposed to contact, are guarded with a standard safeguard.
(2) Protection from hot pipes. You must cover all exposed hot pipes within 7 feet of the floor or working platform, or within 15 inches measured horizontally from stairways, ramps or fixed ladders, with an insulating material or be guarded in such a manner as to prevent contact.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, and 49.17.060. WSR 15-24-100, § 296-24-73511, filed 12/1/15, effective 1/5/16; Order 74-27, § 296-24-73511, filed 5/7/74.]