Section 296-818-20010. Personal protective equipment (PPE).

You must:

• Provide, at no cost to the employee, and make sure personal protective equipment is worn.

• Follow the requirements in Table-1, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Table-1: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Notes:	• Use only respirators certified by NIOSH in 42 C.F.R. Part 84 for protecting employees from dusts, and other hazards produced during abrasive blasting operations, like:
	– Using a garnet sand to blast a concrete surface, resulting in crystalline silica dust
	• A filtering face piece may be used only for short, intermittent, or occasional dust exposures for any of the following tasks:
	– To protect the operator during abrasive blasting operations performed outside the enclosure or outdoors where nonsilica abrasives are used on materials with low toxicity
	– Clean-up
	– Dumping dust collectors
	– Unloading shipments of sand at receiving areas when the following controls are not feasible:
	■ Enclosures
	■ Exhaust ventilation
	OR
	■ Other means

Reference:	• For additional requirements to help you fully protect employees, go to the following separate chapters:
	– The Safety and health core rules, chapter 296-800 WAC:
	■ Personal protective equipment (PPE), WAC 296-800-160
	– Respiratory hazards, chapter 296-841 WAC
	– Respirators, chapter 296-842 WAC:
	■ Respirator program, WAC 296-842-120
	■ Specifications for air quality, WAC 296-842-200

[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, 49.17.060. WSR 09-05-071, § 296-818-20010, filed 2/17/09, effective 4/1/09; WSR 06-12-074, § 296-818-20010, filed 6/6/06, effective 9/1/06.]

RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, 49.17.060. WSR 09-05-071, § 296-818-20010, filed 2/17/09, effective 4/1/09; WSR 06-12-074, § 296-818-20010, filed 6/6/06, effective 9/1/06.

Rules

296-800,296-800-160,296-841,296-842,296-842-120,