Injury Illness Prevention Plan - Flipbook - Page 255
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
A written housekeeping and maintenance plan will be kept which will list appropriate frequencies for carrying
out housekeeping operations, and for cleaning and maintaining dust collection equipment. The plan will be
available for inspection by the Assistant Secretary.
Periodic cleaning of dust collection and ventilation equipment and checks of their effectiveness will be carried
out to maintain the effectiveness of the system and a notation kept of the last check of effectiveness and
cleaning or maintenance.
Hygiene facilities and practices
The company will provide for workers working in regulated areas or subject to the possibility of skin or eye
irritation from inorganic arsenic, clean change rooms equipped with storage facilities for street clothes and
separate storage facilities for protective clothing and equipment in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.141(e). The
company will ensure that workers working in regulated areas or subject to the possibility of skin or eye irritation
from inorganic arsenic, shower at the end of the work shift. The company will provide shower facilities in
accordance with 1910.141(d)(3).
The company will provide for workers working in regulated areas, lunchroom facilities which have temperature
controlled, positive pressure, filtered air supply, and which are readily accessible to workers working in
regulated areas. The company will ensure that workers working in the regulated area or subject to the possibility
of skin or eye irritation from exposure to inorganic arsenic wash their hands and face prior to eating. The
company will provide lavatory facilities which comply with 1910.141(d)(1) and (2). The company will provide
facilities for workers working in areas where exposure, without regard to the use of respirators, exceeds 100
ug/m (3) to vacuum their protective clothing and clean or change shoes worn in such areas before entering
change rooms, lunchrooms or shower rooms required by this section and will assure that such workers use such
facilities. The company will ensure that no worker is exposed to skin or eye contact with arsenic trichloride, or
to skin or eye contact with liquid or particulate inorganic arsenic which is likely to cause skin or eye irritation.
Medical Surveillance
The company will institute a medical surveillance program for all workers who are or will be exposed above the
action level, without regard to the use of respirators, at least 30 days per year, and all workers who have been
exposed above the action level, without regard to respirator use, for 30 days or more per year for a total of 10
years or more of combined employment with the company or predecessor employers prior to or after the
effective date of this standard. The determination of exposures prior to the effective date of this standard shall
be based upon prior exposure records, comparison with the first measurements taken after the effective date
of this standard, or comparison with records of exposures in areas with similar processes, extent of engineering
controls used, and materials used by that employer.
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