Eating facilities

Are eating facilities provided away from the shop floor ... 

A) any structure suitable for use as a classroom, including a school facility such as a laboratory, library, school eating facility, or facility used for the preparation of food,... 

Eating facilities (small facilities and not canteens with paid staff) should ... 

The provision and use of adequate washing and eating facilities with instruction for workers on the hygiene measures they should take to prevent the spread of contamination are also required. The use of lead at work is an example of where this is particularly important. 

Eating facilities, (i) The employer shall provide lunchroom facilities or eating areas for employees whose airborne exposure to lead is above the PEL, without regard to the use of respirators. 

First of all, you should look at the type of work Where is it done Who does it Who else may be affected When, for example, in a large multi-user area (such as a conservation studio) lead paint is being stripped off a wooden structure by a group of people at one end of the room while a different activity is going on at the other, with informal eating facilities in the middle, there may well be several problems. Such an area is not entirely suitable for working with lead, since other people may be at risk and the food may be contaminated. All these factors should be taken into account in the... 

Rest facilities should be provided in readily accessible places. To avoid contamination of food, or accidental ingestion of chemicals, these should include facilities to eat meals in a separate location. 

Provision of adequate information, instruction and training control against exposures by measures other than the use of personal protective equipment provision of adequate washing facilities prohibition of eating, drinking and smoking m contaminated areas and health surveillance are covered. 

Children might be exposed to 3,3 -dichlorobenzidine if they eat small amounts of soil contaminated with 3,3 -dichlorobenzidine. However, studies suggest that it is very difficult to release 3,3 -dichlorobenzidine once it becomes attached to soil. Exposure via contaminated soil may occur if they live in an area near a source of the chemical (such as a hazardous waste site that contains 3,3 -dichlorobenzidine). Children can also be exposed if the parents work at chemical facilities where 3,3 -dichlorobenzidine is handled and bring home contaminated clothing or tools or if they do not shower before coming home. There are no known unique exposure pathways for children. 

You may be exposed to hexachlorobutadiene by breathing contaminated air, eating contaminated food, drinking contaminated water, or by direct skin contact with this chemical. People working in the industrial facilities where hexachlorobutadiene is formed or used may be exposed. Concentrations found in outside air were 2-3 parts hexachlorobutadiene per trillion parts of air (ppt). Levels were much higher in or near industrial facilities where hexachlorobutadiene is formed or used. One survey detected air concentrations ranging from 22 to 43,000 ppt in a production facility. No information is available on how many workers are potentially exposed to hexachlorobutadiene. 

Charcoal is made from wood ashes, sulfur is mined, and potassium nitrate (called Chilean saltpeter) was mined from dry cliffs on the coast of Chile, where fish-eating seabirds had their nests and restroom facilities. Over many centuries, this source accumulated in layers mary feet thick, and this was adequate for all nitrate needs until the end of the nineteenth century when deposits began to deplete faster than birds could replenish them and transportation and purification (odor is just part of the problem) kept costs high-... 

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