Injury Illness Prevention Plan - Flipbook - Page 251
Health and Safety Program Manual
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Construction, Inc.
Issue Date: 10/16/23
Revision Date: 10/16/23
Arsenic Exposure
Reference: B-5
The company will collect full shift (for at least seven continuous hours) personal samples including at least one
sample for each shift for each job classification in each work area.
Frequency – If the initial monitoring reveals worker exposure to be below the action level the measurements
need not be repeated except as otherwise provided in this section. If the initial monitoring, required by this
section, or subsequent monitoring reveals worker exposure to be above the permissible exposure limit, the
company will repeat monitoring at least quarterly.
If the initial monitoring required by this section, or subsequent monitoring reveals worker exposure to be above
the action level and below the permissible exposure limit the company will repeat monitoring at least every six
months.
The company will continue monitoring at the required frequency until at least two consecutive measurements,
taken at least seven (7) days apart, are below the action level at which time the employer may discontinue
monitoring for that worker.
Initial Monitoring – Each employer who has a workplace or work operation covered by this standard shall
monitor each such workplace and work operation to accurately determine the airborne concentration of
inorganic arsenic to which workers may be exposed.
Inorganic Arsenic – Copper aceto-arsenite and all inorganic compounds containing arsenic except arsine,
measured as arsenic (As).
Methods of Compliance – The company will institute at the earliest possible time but not later than December
31, 1979, engineering, and work practice controls to reduce exposures to or below the permissible exposure
limit, except to the extent that the employer can establish that such controls are not feasible. Where engineering
and work practice controls are not sufficient to reduce exposures to or below the permissible exposure limit,
they shall nonetheless be used to reduce exposures to the lowest levels achievable by these controls and will
be supplemented using respirators and other necessary personal protective equipment. Worker rotation is not
required as a control strategy before respiratory protection is instituted.
Permissible Exposure Limit – The Company will ensure that no worker is exposed to inorganic arsenic at
concentrations greater than 10 micrograms per cubic meter of air (10 ug/m (3)), averaged over any 8-hour
period.
Regulated Area – The Company will establish regulated areas where worker exposures to Inorganic arsenic,
without regard to the use of respirators, is in excess of the permissible limit. Regulated areas will be demarcated
and segregated from the rest of the workplace in any manner that minimizes the number of persons who will
be exposed to inorganic arsenic. Access to regulated areas will be limited to authorized persons or to persons
otherwise authorized by the Act or regulations issued pursuant thereto to enter such areas.
All persons entering a regulated area shall be supplied with a respirator. The company will assure that in
regulated areas, food or beverages are not consumed, smoking products, chewing tobacco and gum are not
used and cosmetics are not applied, except that these activities may be conducted in the lunchrooms, change
rooms and showers required in this section. Drinking water may be consumed in the regulated area.
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