This document discusses the major requirements of OSHA’s Respiratory Protection Standard, 29 CFR 1910.134. No attempt has been made to discuss every detail of the standard. Readers are encouraged to consult OSHA’s Respiratory Protection web page for the complete text.
Respiratory protection program. This paragraph requires the employer to develop and implement a written respiratory protection program with required worksite-specific procedures and elements for required respirator use. The program must be administered by a …
This section highlights OSHA standards and documents related to respiratory protection. OSHA's revised Respiratory Protection Standard (29 CFR 1910.134 and 29 CFR 1926.103) went into effect April 8, 1998. The final standard replaces the respiratory protection standards adopted by …
Employer must select and provide an appropriate respirator based on the respiratory hazards to which the worker is exposed and workplace and user factors that affect respirator performance and reliability.
2024年12月12日 · (1) In the control of those occupational diseases caused by breathing air contaminated with harmful dusts, fogs, fumes, mists, gases, smokes, sprays, or vapors, the primary objective shall be to prevent atmospheric contamination.
respiratory protection standard in this section. Air-purifying respirator means a res-pirator with an air-purifying filter, cartridge, or canister that removes spe-cific air contaminants by passing am-bient air through the air-purifying ele-ment. Assigned protection factor (APF) means the workplace level of respiratory pro-
by OSHA in 1971. The new standard requires employers to establish and maintain a respiratory protection program to protect their employees who wear respirators. The major changes to the respiratory protection standard include: • definitions important to the standard; • requirement for a program administrator; • requirements when ...
This standard, which replaces the respiratory protection standards adopted by OSHA in 1971 (29 CFR 1910.134 and 29 CFR 1926.103), applies to General Industry (Part 1910), Shipyards (Part 1915), Marine Terminals (Part 1917), Longshoring (Part 1918), and
(OSHA) Respiratory Protection standard (63 FR 1152; January 8, 1998). While the guide is for small entities, the guide itself is not small. OSHA’s goal for this document is to provide small entities with a compre-hensive step-by-step guide complete with checklists and commonly asked questions that will aid both
A number of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) regulations have respiratory protection requirements. The most significant is the general Respiratory Protection standard, 29 CFR 1910.134. Major revisions were made to this regulation on January 8, 1998.