(1) Fire departments must provide facilities
for disinfecting, cleaning, and storage.
(2) A designated cleaning area must be
provided for under the fire department's exposure control plan for the cleaning
and disinfecting of protective equipment, portable equipment, and other
clothing.
(a) Fire departments that engage in
emergency medical operations must provide or have access to disinfecting
facilities for the cleaning and disinfecting of emergency medical
equipment.
(b) Disinfecting must
not be conducted in fire station kitchen, living, sleeping, or personal hygiene
areas.
(c) Disinfecting facilities
in fire stations must be vented to the outside environment, and designed to
prevent contamination of other fire station areas.
(d) The disinfecting facility must contain a
sink with hot and cold water faucets. All surfaces must be nonporous
surfaces.
(e) Handwashing
facilities must be readily accessible to members. Handwashing facility means a
facility providing an adequate supply of running potable water, soap and single
use towels or hot air drying machines. When provision of handwashing facilities
is not feasible, the employer must provide either an appropriate antiseptic
hand cleaner in conjunction with clean cloth/paper towelettes or antiseptic
towelettes.
(3)
Protective clothing or equipment that is contaminated or potentially
contaminated must not be allowed in any kitchen, living, sleeping, personal
hygiene or other nonwork area.
(4)
The designated cleaning area must be physically separate from areas used for
food preparation, cleaning of food and cooking utensils, personal hygiene,
sleeping, and living areas.
(5)
Drying areas for protective clothing must be well ventilated.
(6) Storage areas: Emergency medical supplies
and equipment stored in fire stations, other than that stored on vehicles, must
be stored in a dedicated enclosure and maintained per manufacturer's
instructions.
(7) Reusable
emergency medical supplies and equipment, protective clothing, and protective
equipment must not be stored in kitchen, living, sleeping, or personal hygiene
areas, nor must it be stored in personal clothing lockers.
