Walking and Working Surface Program

This suborder is to establish requirements and associated roles and responsibilities to eliminate or reduce to the greatest extent possible hazards associated with surfaces that employees walk on or do work from on NIST sites.

• The content of this suborder was derived primarily from OSHA 29 CFR Subpart D 1910.21-30, Walking-Working Surfaces, along with relevant portions of ANSI, ASTM and ABA-UFAS standards.
• Exposure to falls between different walking or working elevations which requires the use of passive and/or active fall protection methods (e.g., guardrails, fall restraint systems, fall arresting systems, etc.) is addressed in NIST S 7101.67: Fall Protection.