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DC -251 (Revised April 2010) BK:00025 PG:0592 <br />3. Custodial duties such as emptying trash cans, carrying out trash, restocking <br />supplies in restrooms, moving furniture, and setting up furniture. <br />4. Motor vehicle maintenance, washing and vacuuming which does not require <br />the inmate to be on elevated surfaces more than four feet tall, without <br />appropriate fall protection. Acceptable fall protection would include ladders, <br />standard railings on working surfaces, properly erected scaffolding or a <br />personal fall arrest system. Inmates are not allowed to operate motor vehicles <br />for any reason and cannot be allowed to have the keys for operating a motor <br />vehicle for any reason. <br />5. Grounds care duties including litter pick up, grass mowing, weed eating, <br />pruning, hedge trimming, leaf blowing, raking, applying herbicides and <br />pesticides, setting out and taking up small plants and bushes. Inmates must be <br />trained by managers and supervisors in the safe operation of any powered <br />equipment. Inmates can be trained to operate riding mowers. All equipment <br />must have manufacturer and OSHA required warning labels, safety guards <br />and devices in good condition. Inmates applying herbicides and pesticides <br />must be trained and closely supervised by a duly licensed applicator <br />responsible to insure the inmate follow regulations and safe workpractices. <br />Inmates must receive hazard communication training on all chemicals they <br />work with. They must be provided with all necessary personal protective <br />equipment for the task they are performing. <br />6. Minor building maintenance duties including painting, caulking, clearing rain <br />gutters and power washing that can be done from the ground, ladder, properly <br />constructed and erected scaffolding or with an approved personal fall arrest <br />system. <br />7. Right of way & drainage maintenance using bush axes & shovels. <br />Inmate labor contract duties and tasks are expected to be for basic manual labor, <br />such as those listed above, and normally utilizing manual tools such as shovels, <br />brooms, mops, bush axes, etc. Inmates can be trained to use basic powered lawn <br />care equipment, including riding mowers. This list of tasks is not exclusive of <br />others but anything outside the scope of these types of work activities should be <br />discussed with, and approved by, the correctional facility's management before <br />assigning the inmate to perform the proposed duties. <br />C. Inmates are not allowed to perform hazardous duties such as the following: <br />1. Work with electric transmission utility line crews in any capacity. <br />2. Work within ten feet of any unguarded, energized electrical transmission lines <br />or high voltage equipment, and/or within ten feet of any conductive object <br />involved in a task near unguarded, energized electrical transmission lines or <br />high voltage equipment. <br />3. Enter any permit required confined space including but not limited to sewer <br />manholes, lift stations, water tanks, chlorine contact chambers, utility vaults, <br />salt bins, etc. <br />4. Disturb any suspected or confirmed asbestos containing materials including <br />but not limited to thermal system insulation, vinyl floor tiles, flooring mastic, <br />Page 3 of 7 <br />