Personal protective equipment Warning

Appropriate personal protective equipment, warnings, barricade tapes, and protection against slips or falls on wet floor during and after cleanup. 

Lightweight Chemical Detector (LCD-S) The LCD-S acts as a local warning alarm system for individuals and small groups of persons within the domestic or military market. It simultaneously detects, identifies, and differentiates between type of chemical warfare agent at below attack concentration, and warns users when to don personal protective equipment. 

Dingus, T.A. and S.S. Wreggit, et al. (1993). Warning variables affecting personal protective equipment use. 

However, operating procedures and training, or other warning, caution, or written advisory forms, are not to be used as the only risk reduction method for critical hazards. Acceptable procedures may include the use of personal protective equipment. 

Engineering design should strive for elimination of hazards. Only when elimination, substitution, or engineering controls are not feasible should rehance on physical barriers, warning systems, training, and personal protective equipment be considered. 

A chemical spill is probably the most common accident in the laboratory, and in most cases can be cleaned up by laboratory personnel with minimal effort or risk. According to the requirements of the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, laboratory personnel are required to be trained in the risks associated with the chemicals with which they are working and should know when it is safe to clean up a minor spill. Workers should be especially sure to be familiar with the risks and the corrective actions to be taken in an emergency for chemicals labeled on the container DANGER or WARNING. If personal protective equipment is needed, personnel required to wear it must receive appropriate training in how to use and maintain the equipment. 

RAC 1 and 2 hazards cannot be controlled with cautions, warnings, or personal protective equipment only. 

If you have any known carcinogens at your jobsites, ensure that you point them out. Pass around one or more SDSs for the carcinogens at your site, show employees a carcinogen label(s), and have examples of warning signs, if used. Show them what personal protective equipment you expect employees to wear in regulated areas, and be ready to explain how to use and maintain this equipment. 

Work involving potential arc flashes requires special planning and protection. Work may involve standardized procedures including use of two-person teams. Restrict equipment access to authorized individuals at the room level and the individual equipment level. There should be warning labels on equipment with a potential for an arc flash. There should be lock out and tag out procedures to assure deenergized equipment. Authorized personnel should be trained on the equipment, hazards, controls, tools, personal protective equipment, work planning, and procedures. 

Failing to use personal protective equipment Failing to warn co-workers or to secure equipment Engaging in horseplay Lifting improperly... 

This regulation requires that all permit-required spaces be identified, evaluated, and controlled. Procedures for entry must exist. Appropriate equipment and training for authorized entrants must be provided. Entry supervisors and attendants must be trained and present, and a written/signed entry permit should exist prior to entry. Trained and available rescue personnel shall (over one-half of the deaths in confined spaces are rescuers) be available. The space must have posted warning signs and barriers erected, and personal protective equipment and rescue equipment must be provided. 

Employees must make full and proper use of any control measure personal protective equipment (PPE) or any facility provided and report any defects found in these. Eollow all instructions and safety information provided and only use and dispose of substances in the recommended manner. You should know the warning symbols and pay particular attention to any container bearing any of the symbols shown in Eig. 1.8. 

If the risk category is Serious, the risk is not acceptable and action should be undertaken on a high-priority basis, meaning very soon, to lower the risk to a tolerable level. While arrangements are made to reduce the risk, an extra heavy application of the lower levels in the hierarchy of controls (warning systems, blocking off work areas, administrative controls, personal protective equipment) is in order. If it is determined that the cost to reduce the risk to a tolerably lower level is excessive in relation to the risk reduction benefit to be achieved, the operation should cease in all but rare situations. 

A standard must provide for labels or other forms of warning about hazards, symptoms, emergency treatment and proper conditions and precautions for safe use and exposure. Personal protective equipment or control or technological procedttres shottld be provided in the standard, as well as type and frequency of medical examinations or other tests of employees at the employer s expense. If the tests are for research, the Secretary of HHS may pay for them. 

The hazard communication (HAZCOM) standard is a central feature in the safe operation of the chemical processing industry. HAZCOM ensures that process technicians can safely handle, transport, and store chemicals. The standard mandates that workers have access to chemical lists, material safety data sheets, information on physical and health hazards, toxicology, hazardous chemicals and operations, manufacturers information, and warning labels. It also sets requirements for availability and use of personal protective equipment. 

Control EDCs exposure through the IH hierarchy of control strategy 1) elimination 2) substitution 3) engineering 4) warnings 5) administrative and, 6) personal protective equipment. Skin exposure in the workplace may be more important than inhalation. 

In E5.1.2 Often, a combination of controls is most effective. In cases where the higher order of controls (elimination, substitution, and implementation of engineering controls) do not reduce risk to an acceptable level, lower order controls (e.g., warnings, administrative controls, or personal protective equipment) are used to complement engineering controls to reduce risks to an acceptable level. 

Other issues which need to be addressed include the selection of equipment (preferably using reduced voltage electrical equipment) and personal protective equipment and the erection of appropriate warning signs. Other precautions and controls include the provision of ... 

Laboratory security system Specialized training prior to access Door interlocks for laser laboratories Warnings and signs Personal protective equipment... 

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