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. practices will be conveyed to all employees and enforced by the Contractor and the CSO
respect to respiratory equipment for this project:
1. Subcontractors whose personnel may have the need to wear respiratory protection
on this job, shall have a written respiratory protection program that meets the
requirements of the OSHA Standard (29 CFR 1910.134) and has been developed
by a Competent Person as defined by OSHA.
2. Personnel who may need to wear respiratory protection shall be fit-testing,
medically qualified and trained, as required by the Standard, to use respiratory
protection. The Subcontractor shall identify personnel who may use respiratory
protection and documentation of fit-testing, medical qualification and training
shall be provided for each person who may need to wear respiratory protection on
the job.
3. The Subcontractor shall review with the Contractor CSO the procedures for the
handling, storage and maintenance of respiratory protective equipment to be used
on-site, including the process for reporting and repairing or replacing defective
equipment and the locations where respiratory equipment will be stored.
4. Subcontractors will provide employees with adequate respiratory protection as
required by each task.
• 5. A respirator of lesser protection than is required for the task/activity may not be
used.
6. Each employee will change his/her respirator filter at the end of each work shift.
The Subcontractor will provide an adequate supply of approved filters for daily
replacement for each employee's respirator.
7. Each Subcontractor will ensure the adequacy of respiratory protection for his
employees based upon the verified results of personal air sampling.
8. If at any time air sampling data indicates airborne exposures exceeding one-half
the OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit, all affected employees' respiratory
protection will be upgraded.
2.6.1.1 Respirator Testing
Each individual who must wear a respirator will be required to be clean-shaven where the
sealing areas of the respirator face piece contacts the face. Each respirator user will be
respirator fit-tested in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.134 at least annually. Upon donning
the respiratory device or before entering any restricted work area, each respirator wearer
will be required to perform a manual negative and positive-pressure test. Subcontractor
employees who fail the negative/positive pressure test because they are not clean shaven
will be required to leave site for the day or to shave on-site immediately preceding entry
into the work area.
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