Or. Admin. R. 437-002-2032

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 8, August 1, 2024

Section 437-002-2032 - Hygiene Areas and Practices

This rule covers hygiene requirements for all employers covered under the beryllium rule scope, 437-002-2024.

(1) For each employee working in a beryllium work area or required to use personal protective clothing or equipment by this subdivision, you must:

(a) Provide readily accessible washing facilities in accordance with this rule and the Sanitation standards §1910.141 and §1926.51 to remove beryllium from the hands, face, and neck; and

(b) Ensure that employees who have dermal contact with beryllium wash any exposed skin at the end of the activity, process, or work shift and prior to eating, drinking, smoking, chewing tobacco or gum, applying cosmetics, or using the toilet.

(c) Provide employees with a designated change room where employees are required to remove their personal clothing.

(2) Wherever the employer allows employees to consume food or beverages at a worksite where beryllium is present, you must ensure that:

(a) Surfaces in eating and drinking areas are as free as practicable of beryllium:

(b) Employees do not enter any eating or drinking area with personal protective clothing or equipment unless, prior to entry, surface beryllium has been removed from the clothing or equipment by methods that do not disperse beryllium into the air or onto an employee's body; and

(c) Eating and drinking facilities provided by the employer are in accordance with the Sanitation standards (§ 1910.141 or §1926.51).

(3) Ensure that employees do not eat, drink, smoke, chew tobacco or gum, or apply cosmetics in regulated areas or work areas where there is a reasonable expectation of exposure above the TWA PEL or STEL.

(4) On fixed sites, provide showers when:

(a) Airborne exposures exceed or can reasonably be expected to exceed, the PEL or STEL.

(b) Beryllium can reasonably be expected to contaminate employees' hair or body parts other than hands, face, and neck.

(5) When showers on fixed sites are required, ensure that each employee showers at the end of the work shift or work activity if:

(a) The employee reasonably could have had airborne exposure above the TWA PEL or STEL; and

(b) Beryllium could reasonably have contaminated the employee's hair or body parts other than hands, face, and neck.

Or. Admin. R. 437-002-2032

OSHA 3-2017, f. 7-7-17, cert. ef. 3/12/2018; OSHA 1-2018, amend filed 03/12/2018, effective 3/12/2018

Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 654.025(2) & 656.726(4)

Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 654.001 - 654.295