"Standard Specification for Foot Protection for Chain Saw Users"

This specification prescribes the minimum requirements for the design, performance, testing, and certification of footwear and foot protective devices that, when worn by operators of power chain saws, shall provide cut resistance protection to their feet, and thereby reducing foot injuries caused by close contact with the running saw chain.

An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, system, or service: Examples of specifications include, but are not limited to, requirements for; physical, mechanical, or chemical properties, and safety, quality, or performance criteria. A specification identifies the test methods for determining whether each of the requirements is satisfied.

All equipment and/or accessories (whether or not detachable) designed and manufactured specifically to protect the foot and/or the leg and to provide anti-slip protection. This category includes protection against static electricity, risk of explosion, falling or rolling objects, crushing or penetrating, protection from exposure to hot substances and/or corrosive or poisonous materials

• Footwear, general

• Mechanical Hazards

• 45-4000 Forest, Conservation, and Logging Workers
  • 45-4011 Forest Workers
  • 45-4021 Fallers

ASTM F1414 - 19(2023) - Standard test method for measurement of cut resistance to chain saw in lower body (legs) protective clothing

ASTM F1458 - 15(2022) - Standard Test Method for Measurement of Cut Resistance to Chain Saw of Foot Protective Devices

ASTM F1897 - 20 - Standard Specification for Leg Protection for Chain Saw Users

29 CFR 1910.266 - Logging operations