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       #Post#: 91694--------------------------------------------------
       Stihl red control levers
       By: Chainsawrepair Date: November 8, 2025, 7:40 am
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       These 2 old post make the most since of it all.
       stihl99 =  This is my experience from industry coming from
       automotive automation world.
       Osha does mandate an emergency stop button for energized power
       source / equipment must be red, newer stuff the past 20 + years
       have been red buttons or red with yellow circle labeled
       Emergency Stop
       Disconnect switches are also red tipped or red/yellow combo. I
       have seen black e-stops and temp stops before, but they were
       replaced I have not seen one one in years now.
       Osha made a big push in the late 90's early 2000's that all
       emergency stop button / switches to kill an energized source
       must be red.
       Power Distribution Panels 480 volt or higher are still
       acceptable with the black rotating lockable disconnect switches,
       but that is all I have seen for years newly manufactured that
       were acceptable and not red in color.
       DaveP = That would be about the time frame and now that you
       mention it I was a maintenance man at Poulan in Nashville, AR
       and I remember having to replace quite a few black kill switches
       with red right after an OSHA inspection in 98 or 99.
       Personally I think if you don't know how to turn a saw off
       without looking you probably don't need to be running it. Also I
       totally agree that a red switch on an orange background is much
       harder to see than a black switch.
       Poulan and stihl shown in couple pics.
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