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MSHA policy can be found here: 77.1605 <br />These standards require that adequate berms or guardrails be installed on <br />roadways where a drop -off exists of sufficient grade or depth to cause a vehicle to <br />overturn or endanger persons in equipment. It also establishes requirements for <br />the height and construction of berms and guardrails (metal and nonmetal). <br />Alternative measures, other than berms, may be utilized for roadways that are <br />infrequently traveled or used only by service or maintenance vehicles (metal and <br />nonmetal). <br />Issues to Consider in DeterminingCCompliance: <br />• ❑ If the drop -off is of sufficient grade or depth to cause a vehicle to overturn <br />or endanger persons in the equipment: <br />> = Is a berm or guardrail installed? <br />Y sw Is the berm or guardrail mid -axle height to the largest vehicle that usually <br />travels the road (metal and nonmetal)? <br />• 0 If there are openings in the berms for water drainage: <br />Y m Are the openings small enough to impede self - propelled vehicles <br />using the road (metal and nonmetal)? <br />• ❑ If the roadway is infrequently traveled or used only by service or <br />maintenance vehicles (metal and nonmetal)? <br />➢ aF If berms or guardrails are not installed on roads traveled by service or <br />maintenance vehicles, does the roadway have locked gates at all entry <br />points? <br />s, Are signs posted at appropriate locations to indicate that berms or <br />guardrails are not present? <br />> sv Are delineators installed and visible along the perimeter of the <br />elevated roadway in both directions of travel? <br />> %ts Are reflective surfaces of at least three delineators along each elevated <br />shoulder always visible to the driver and spaced at intervals sufficient to <br />indicate the edge and height of the roadway? <br />➢ - Is a maximum speed limit posted and observed for any elevated, <br />unbermed portions of the roadway? <br />Ir Is the speed limit being observed? <br />77.1607 c - prudent operation of loading and haulage equipment) <br />➢ = Have measures been taken to provide traction in inclement weather? <br />Other issues covered by related standard <br />• 0 Was a berm, bumper block, safety hook, or similar impeding device <br />provided at dumping locations where there was a hazard of overtravel or <br />overturning? <br />(56.9301 or 57.9301 - dump site restraints) <br />(77.1605(l) - dump site restrain <br />