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Respiratory Protection

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Drinking Water and Wastewater

Cintas - First Aid and Safety Division

Samuel Amory

amorys@cintas.com

724-759-1617 Ext.

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has established General Industry Respiratory Protection Standard 29 CFR 1 9 1 0.1 3 4. The OSHA standard states that your first goal in developing respiratory protection measures should be to prevent atmospheric contamination. In other words, you should try to keep the air in you workplace as clean as you can. OSHA requires that this should be accomplished, as much as possible, through the use of accepted engineering controls: for example, enclosing or confining the operation, providing general and local ventilation, substituting less toxic materials and so on. When engineering controls are not feasible or sufficient or while they are being put into place, the OSHA standard requires the use of appropriate respirators. When it becomes necessary to protect the health of employees, employers must provide respirators that are applicable and suitable for the purpose intended. This means that respirators must be selected based on the specific hazard or hazards that are present, as well as the work that is to be performed. In addition, OSHA requires that a respiratory protection written program be established and maintained. The written program will form the basis of your respiratory protection efforts and should state clearly what the hazards are, how they will be controlled and how respiratory protection equipment will be selected, used and maintained.

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Comprehensive Administrative Text including the applicable OSHA guideline * This Section explains the steps you can take to help employees avoid injuries and reduce related costs to your company. * Includes a sample written program along with forms that will assist in customizing the written program to specific company environments. Customizable templates are provided in Microsoft Word for the sample written program, recordkeeping forms and leaming exercise. * a complete training guide and tools including discussion *up activities to support the training. Also includes a leaming exercise to test employees' knowledge and determine their level of understanding about the topic. * addressing each specific topic Employee Handbooks Overhead Templates in Powerpoint

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