MATERIALS HANDLING AND STORAGE

Multi-Piece and Single-Piece Rim Wheels - Employee Training

Employers must provide a training program for all employees who service rim wheels. This training must include the hazards involved and the safety procedures to be followed when servicing rim wheels. The employer must regularly evaluate each employee's performance and provide additional training, as necessary, to assure that each employee maintains proficiency.

At a minimum, the training program must include the contents of the OSHA standard and the information in the manufacturer's rim manuals, or the OSHA charts. Charts are available from OSHA national, regional, or area offices.

Employers must ensure that employees do not service any rim wheels unless the worker has been trained in and can demonstrates:

Demounting tires, including deflation

Inspecting and identifying rim wheel components

Installing, handling, and removing rim wheels

Inflating tires when single-piece rim wheels are mounted on a vehicle

Mounting tires, including inflating them with a restraining device or other safeguard

Understanding the necessity of standing outside the trajectory during inflation of the tires and of inspecting the rim wheels following inflation.

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