---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 108.223"
title: "46"
number: "108.223"
heading: "Guards on exposed equipment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/108.223"
---

# §108.223. Guards on exposed equipment.


Each unit must have hand covers, guards, or rails installed on all belts, gears, shafts, pulleys, sprockets, spindles, flywheels or other reciprocating, rotating or moving parts of machinery or equipment normally exposed to contact by personnel.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1333; 46 U.S.C. 3102, 3306; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Source

Source: CGD 73-251, 43 FR 56808, Dec. 4, 1978, unless otherwise noted.