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Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division AO 3-2019 Division 2 - (vi) Personal protective equipment shall be selected and used to meet the requirements of 29 CFR Part 1910, Subpart I, and additional requirements specified in this section. - (4) Totally-encapsulating chemical protective suits. - (i) Totally-encapsulating suits shall protect employees from the particular hazards which are identified during site characterization and analysis. - (ii) Totally-encapsulating suits shall be capable of maintaining positive air pressure. (See Appendix A for a test method which may be used to evaluate this requirement.) - (iii) Totally-encapsulating suits shall be capable of preventing inward test gas leakage of more than 0.5 percent. (See Appendix A for a test method which may be used to evaluate this requirement.) - (5) Personal protective equipment (PPE) program. A written personal protective equipment program, which is part of the employer's safety and health program required in paragraph (b) of this section or required in paragraph (p)(1) of this section and which is also a part of the site-specific safety and health plan shall be established. The PPE program shall address the elements listed below. When elements, such as donning and doffing procedures, are provided by the manufacturer of a piece of equipment and are attached to the plan, they need not be rewritten into the plan as long as they adequately address the procedure or element. - (i) PPE selection based upon site hazards, - (ii) PPE use and limitations of the equipment, - (iii) Work mission duration, - (iv) PPE maintenance and storage, - (v) PPE decontamination and disposal, - (vi) PPE training and proper fitting, - (vii) PPE donning and doffing procedures, - (viii) PPE inspection procedures prior to, during, and after use, - (ix) Evaluation of the effectiveness of the PPE program, and - (x) Limitations during temperature extremes, heat stress, and other appropriate medical considerations. - (h) Monitor…

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## Subpart I-Personal Protective Equipment AUTHORITY: 29 U.S.C. 653, 655, 657; Secretary of Labor's Order No. 12-71 (36 FR 8754), 8-76 (41 FR [redacted postal code]), 9-83 (48 FR [redacted postal code]), 1-90 (55 FR 9033), 6-96 (62 FR 111), 3-2000 (65 FR [redacted postal code]), 5-2002 (67 FR [redacted postal code]), 5-2007 (72 FR [redacted postal code]), 4-2010 (75 FR [redacted postal code]), or 1-2012 (77 FR 3912), as applicable, and 29 CFR Part 1911. ## §1910.132 General requirements. - (a) Application. Protective equipment, including personal protective equipment for eyes, face, head, and extremities, protective clothing, respiratory devices, and protective shields and barriers, shall be provided, used, and maintained in a sanitary and reliable condition wherever it is necessary by reason of hazards of processes or environment, chemical hazards, radiological hazards, or mechanical irritants encountered in a manner capable of causing injury or impairment in the function of any part of the body through absorption, inhalation or physical contact. - (b) Employee-owned equipment. Where employees provide their own protective equipment, the employer shall be responsible to assure its adequacy, including proper maintenance, and sanitation of such equipment. - (c) Design. All personal protective equipment shall be of safe design and construction for the work to be performed. - (d) Hazard assessment and equipment selection. (1) The employer shall assess the workplace to determine if hazards are present, or are likely to be present, which necessitate the use of personal protective equipment (PPE). If such hazards are present, or likely to be present, the employer shall: - (i) Select, and have each affected employee use, the types of PPE that will protect the affected employee from the hazards identified in the hazard assessment; - (ii) Communicate selection decisions to each affected employee; and, - (iii) Select PPE that properly fits each affected employee. NOTE: N…

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## 29 CFR 1910 (OSHA) - (5) The employer must pay for replacement PPE, except when the employee has lost or intentionally damaged the PPE. - (6) Where an employee provides adequate protective equipment he or she owns pursuant to paragraph (b) of this section, the employer may allow the employee to use it and is not required to reimburse the employee for that equipment. The employer shall not require an employee to provide or pay for his or her own PPE, unless the PPE is excepted by paragraphs (h)(2) through (h)(5) of this section. - (7) This paragraph (h) shall become effective on February 13, 2008. Employers must implement the PPE payment requirements no later than May 15, 2008. NOTE TO §1910.132(H): When the provisions of another OSHA standard specify whether or not the employer must pay for specific equipment, the payment provisions of that standard shall prevail. [39 FR [redacted postal code], June 27, 1974, as amended at 59 FR [redacted postal code], Apr. 6, 1994; 59 FR [redacted postal code], July 1, 1994; 72 FR [redacted postal code], Nov. 15, 2007; 76 FR [redacted postal code], June 8, 2011] ## §1910.133 Eye and face protection. - (a) General requirements. (1) The employer shall ensure that each affected employee uses appropriate eye or face protection when exposed to eye or face hazards from flying particles, molten metal, liquid chemicals, acids or caustic liquids, chemical gases or vapors, or potentially injurious light radiation. - (2) The employer shall ensure that each affected employee uses eye protection that provides side protection when there is a hazard from flying objects. Detachable side protectors (e.g. clip-on or slide-on side shields) meeting the pertinent requirements of this section are acceptable. - (3) The employer shall ensure that each affected employee who wears prescription lenses while engaged in operations that involve eye hazards wears eye protection that incorporates the prescription in its design, or wears eye protection t…

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- (a) ANSI Standard Z87.1-2003, Occupational and Educational Personal Eye and Face Protection Devices , or - (b) ANSI Standard Z87.1-1989, Practice for Occupational and Educational Eye and Face Protection . 229 (2.3) Despite subsection (2), prescription personal protective equipment to protect the eyes may consist of frames that meet the requirements of ANSI Standard Z87.1-2003, Occupational and Educational Personal Eye and Face Protection Devices provided the lenses meet the requirements of CSA Standard Z94.3-15, Eye and face protectors . - 229 (3) If a worker must wear full face piece respiratory protective equipment and the face piece is intended to prevent materials striking the eyes, an employer must ensure that the face piece - (a) meets the requirements of CSA Standard Z94.3-15, Eye and face protectors , or - (b) meets the impact and penetration test requirements of section 9 of - (i) ANSI Standard Z87.1-2003, Occupational and Educational Personal Eye and Face Protection Devices , or - (ii) ANSI Standard Z87.1-1989, Practice for Occupational and Educational Eye and Face Protection . AR 191/2021 s229;242/2022 ## Contact lenses 230 An employer must ensure that, if wearing contact lenses poses a hazard to the worker's eyes during work, the worker is advised of the hazards and the alternatives to wearing contact lenses. ## Electric arc welding 231 A worker must not perform electric arc welding if it is reasonably possible for another worker to be exposed to radiation from the arc unless the other worker is wearing suitable personal protective equipment to protect the eyes or is protected by a screen. ## Flame Resistant Clothing ## Use of flame resistant clothing 232 (1) If a worker may be exposed to a flash fire or electrical equipment flashover, an employer must ensure that the worker wears personal protective equipment that includes flame resistant outerwear and uses other personal protective equipment appropriate to the hazard. 232 (2) A worker must…

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## 29 CFR 1910 (OSHA) - (ii) What PPE is necessary; - (iii) How to properly don, doff, adjust, and wear PPE; - (iv) The limitations of the PPE; and, - (v) The proper care, maintenance, useful life and disposal of the PPE. - (2) Each affected employee shall demonstrate an understanding of the training specified in paragraph (f)(1) of this section, and the ability to use PPE properly, before being allowed to perform work requiring the use of PPE. - (3) When the employer has reason to believe that any affected employee who has already been trained does not have the understanding and skill required by paragraph (f)(2) of this section, the employer shall retrain each such employee. Circumstances where retraining is required include, but are not limited to, situations where: - (i) Changes in the workplace render previous training obsolete; or - (ii) Changes in the types of PPE to be used render previous training obsolete; or - (iii) Inadequacies in an affected employee's knowledge or use of assigned PPE indicate that the employee has not retained the requisite understanding or skill. - (g) Paragraphs (d) and (f) of this section apply only to §§1910.133, 1910.135, 1919.136, and 1910.138. Parpagraphs (d) and (f) of this section do not apply to §§1910.134 and 1910.137. - (h) Payment for protective equipment. (1) Except as provided by paragraphs (h)(2) through (h)(6) of this section, the protective equipment, including personal protective equipment (PPE), used to comply with this part, shall be provided by the employer at no cost to employees. - (2) The employer is not required to pay for non-specialty safety-toe protective footwear (including steel-toe shoes or steel-toe boots) and non-specialty prescription safety eyewear, provided that the employer permits such items to be worn off the job-site. - (3) When the employer provides metatarsal guards and allows the employee, at his or her request, to use shoes or boots with built-in metatarsal protection, the employer is not r…