Color code markings.

TM 38-400/NAVSUP PUB 572/AFMAN 23-210 MCO 4450.14/DLAM 4145.12

6-56. Color code markings.

d. Yellow and black checkerboard symbol. Eye

The following color codes will be used except at

hazardous areas will be marked by permanent screens,

overseas installations when such colors are not deemed

door jambs, and floor markings or by portable signs and

feasible.

screens. All of these will display a black and yellow

checkerboard symbol and the phrase "Eye Hazard."

Portable signs should be used to warn personnel of eye

a. White markings. All floor markings which do not

hazardous operations such as welding, acid handling,

involve caution or hazardous areas will, when required,

and other operations which generate flying particles.

be painted white.

e. Red. The locations of a fire extinguisher and

b. Yellow markings.

other

emergency

fire-fighting

equipment

and

(1) All floor markings which involve caution

accessories will be identified by painting walls behind

areas or physical hazards will be painted yellow of color

and floor below such equipment with paint color chip No.

chip No. 13538 or 13655, FED-STD-595.

11105, red, of FED-STD-595. Emergency chip. No.

(2) MHE used in storage and operational

13538 or 13655. Stop devices, or hazardous machinery

areas will be of a paint color which provides ready

or tools will be painted red for easy and immediate

visibility. Exceptions are combat operational equipment

recognition.

which will be painted the color prescribed by the

f. Red with yellow lettering. Small containers for

applicable military service.

flammable liquids will be painted red with the contents

(3) Guard railings top and bottom stair risers

indicated in yellow lettering.

will be painted with a 3-inch yellow stripe of color chip

g. Yellow with black lettering. The contents of

No. 13538 or 13655 under the nosing of each tread.

fixed tanks will be identified with black lettering on

background of yellow color chip No. 13538 or 13655.

c. Yellow and black striping. Yellow color chip No.

These liquids include gasoline, naphtha, kerosene,

13538 or 13655 used with black paint to form stripes will

alcohol, and solvents.

be used to highlight particularly hazardous environments

h. Exit identification. Types and locations of exit

by providing contrasting background as in the following

identification media, when required, will be prescribed

examples:

by 29 CFR 1910.35, 36, 37.

i. Special purple and yellow. Areas used for

(1) Large

machinery

and

moving

parts

storage of items containing radioactive materials will be

thereof.

conspicuously marked with special purple (magenta)

(2) Pit and platform edges.

and yellow as indicated in MILSTD1458. Placards

bearing the standard radiation symbol will be placed at

(3) Obstructions, dead ends, barricades, and

each entrance to a radioactive storage area and around

curbings.

the perimeter so that at least one placard is clearly

(4) Corner markers for stacks of stored

visible from any direction of approach, as shown in

materials stripped in such a way as to form an inverted

"Radioactive Commodities in the DOD Supply Systems"

V (para 9a(13)).

(DLAM 4145.8/AR 700-64/NAVSUPINST 4000.34/AFR

698/MCO

P4400.105).

Section XII. Safety Practices for Powered MHE (29 CFR 1910.176; 1910.178; 1910.179; 1910.180; 1910.181)

6-57. General.

c. Equipment will be of the correct rated load

Safety practices for powered MHE will be followed and

capacity for the weight of material to be handled.

the operators will be trained in the use of equipment.

d. Equipment will be properly serviced and

The following regulations will be established:

maintained at all times to assure maximum safety and

efficiency in its operation.

a. Operators will be trained under the prescribed

training program established for the operation of such

6-58. Operating safety rules.

equipment and will pass all physical, aptitude, and

a. Spark enclosed electric equipment (29 CFR

licensing examinations required.

1910.178). Battery-powered, EE-type (spark enclosed)

equipment will be used for handling and storing

b. The proper type of equipment will be used for

flammable liquids with a flash point of 100 . or lower

the specific job involved.

in sealed containers. This type of equipment should

also

used

for

handling

other

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