ASME B107.59 pdf download

ASME B107.59 pdf download.SLUGING AND STRIKING.
ASME B107.59 provides performance and safety reqmremcats for slugging and striking wrenches that are intended fur tvrquing of fatcncn. ft is mtcndcd to serve as a guide in selecting, testing, and using the hand tools covered herein It is not the purpose of this Standard to specify the details of manufacturing.
Ths Standard is aLso meant to serve as a guide in developing manuals and posters and for trairüng personnel to work safely.
This Standard may be used as a guide by state authonlics or other regulatory bodics in the formulation of laws or regulations. ft is also intended for voluntary use by establishments that usc or manufacture the tools covered. The method employed to ensure compliance with this Standard shall be determined by the proper regulatory or admimsirative authority.
2 NORMATiVE REFERENCES
The following is a list of pubbcazions reterenced in this Standard.
Guide to Hand Tools—Selection, Safety Tips. Proper Use and Care
6 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS AND UMITAT)ONS OF USE
Instructors and employers shall stress proper use and safety in the use of slugging and striking wrenches and shall emphasize the necessity to wear and ensure the use of safety goggles. The publication. Guide to Hand Toah—Sskction, Safety Tips. Proper Use and Care provides guidelines for the safe use of hand tools.
(a) Slugging and stnking wrenches e spccial.pur. pose tools designed and intended only for use with heavy-duty fasteners where shock or impact is needed to fully tighten or loosen.
(b) To avoid possible eye or other bodily injury. slugging and striking wrenches shall be used coly for the purpose specified in para 6(a).
(c) A striking tool should always be used with the stnbng face parallel to the struck face of the wrench. Glancing blows, oversrnkes, and understrikes should be avoided. No surface of the wrench other than the struck face shall he struck. The sinking tool of the appropriate size shall have a striking face diameter not less than 0375 in (9.53 mm) larger than the struck face of the wrench.
(d) To avcsd possible eye injury From flying objects. safety goggles or equivalent eye protection confonmng to ANSI Z87.l shall be worn by the user and all persons in the immediate area where any slugging and striking wrench is being used.
(e) Slugging and striking wrenches shall not be used with chealer’ pipes or other means to extend the length of the tool.