You must:
(1) Make sure washing facilities, including hot water, are available for every ten employees that work with dip tank liquids.
(2) Satisfy medical requirements:
• Make sure an employee with any small skin abrasion, cut, rash, or open sore receives treatment by a properly designated person
• Make sure an employee with a sore, burn, or other skin lesion that needs medical treatment, has a physician's approval before they perform their regular work
• Make sure employees who work with chromic acid receive periodic examinations of their exposed body parts, especially their nostrils.
Note: | • Periodic means on a yearly basis unless otherwise indicated |
| • Any time chromic acid spills onto an employee's skin or their clothing is saturated, a physician should be responsible for evaluating and monitoring the area where chromic acid made contact with the skin. |
You must:
(3) Provide lockers or other storage space to prevent contamination of street clothes.
Reference: | You have to do a hazard assessment to identify hazards or potential hazards in your workplace and determine if PPE is necessary to protect your employees. See Personal protective equipment (PPE), WAC 296-307-100. |