(1)
Respirator program. The employer must implement a respiratory
protection program as required in chapter
296-62 WAC, Part E (except WAC
296-62-07130(1) and (5) and 296-62-07131), which covers each employee required
by this chapter to use a respirator.
(2)
Emergencies. In an
emergency, immediate measures including, but
not limited to, the requirements of (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of this
subsection must be implemented.
(a) The
potentially affected area must be evacuated as soon as the emergency has been
determined.
(b) Hazardous
conditions created by the emergency must be eliminated and the potentially
affected area must be decontaminated prior to the resumption of normal
operations.
(c) Special medical
surveillance by a physician must be instituted within twenty-four hours for
employees present in the potentially affected area at the time of the
emergency. A report of the medical surveillance and any treatment must be
included in the incident report, in accordance with WAC
296-62-07312(2).
(d) Where an employee has a known contact
with a listed carcinogen, such employee must shower as soon as possible, unless
contraindicated by physical injuries.
(e)
An incident report on the
emergency must be reported as provided
in WAC
296-62-07312(2).
(3) Hygiene facilities and
practices.
(a) Storage or consumption of
food, storage or use of containers of beverages, storage or application of
cosmetics, smoking, storage of smoking materials, tobacco products or other
products for chewing, or the chewing of such products, are prohibited in
regulated areas.
(b) Where
employees are required by this section to wash, washing facilities must be
provided in accordance with WAC
296-800-230.
(c) Where employees are required by this
section to shower, shower facilities must be provided.
(i)
One shower must be provided for each ten employees of each sex,
or numerical fraction thereof, who are required to shower during the same
shift.
(ii) Body soap or other
appropriate cleansing agents convenient to the showers must be provided as
specified in WAC
296-800-230, of the
safety and health core rules.
(iii)
Showers must be provided with hot and cold water feeding a common
discharge line.
(iv) Employees who
use showers must be provided with individual clean towels.
(d) Where employees wear protective clothing
and equipment, clean change rooms must be provided and must be equipped with
storage facilities for street clothes and separate storage facilities for the
protective clothing for the number of such employees required to change
clothes.
(e) Where toilets are in
regulated areas, such toilets must be in a separate room.
(4) Contamination control.
(a) Regulated areas, except for outdoor
systems, must be maintained under pressure negative with respect to
nonregulated areas. Local exhaust ventilation may be used to satisfy this
requirement. Clean makeup air in equal volume must replace air
removed.
(b) Any equipment,
material, or other item taken into or removed from a regulated area must be
done so in a manner that does not cause contamination in nonregulated areas or
the external environment.
(c)
Decontamination procedures must be established and implemented to remove
carcinogens from the surfaces of materials, equipment and the decontamination
facility.
(d) Dry sweeping and dry
mopping are prohibited.
