Highly Hazardous Chemicals

DOE-HDBK-1139/3-2005

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Consolidated Requirements12, 65, 66

4.4.6.2 Inadequacies in the employee's knowledge or use of the

29CFR1910.134(k)(5)(ii)

respirator indicate that the employee has not retained the

requisite understanding or skill.

4.4.6.3 Any other situation arises in which retraining appears

29CFR1910.134(k)(5)(iii)

necessary to ensure safe respirator use.

4.4.7

The basic advisory information on respirators, as presented in

29CFR1910.134(k)(6);

Appendix D, shall be provided by the employer in any written or

29CFR1910.134, App. D

oral format, to employees who wear respirators, when such use

is not required by 29CFR1910.134 or the employer.

29CFR1910.119

4.5 Highly Hazardous Chemicals (see definition)

4.5.1

Initial Training

29CFR1910.119(g)

4.5.1.1 Each employee presently involved in operating a

29CFR1910.119(g)

process, and each employee, before being involved in

operating a newly assigned process, shall be trained in

an overview of the process and in the operating

procedures. The training shall include emphasis on the

specific safety and health hazards, emergency

operations including shutdown, and safe work practices

applicable to the employee's job tasks.

4.5.1.2 In lieu of initial training for those employees already

29CFR1910.119(g)(1)(ii)

involved in operating a process on May 26, 1992, an

employer may certify in writing that the employee has

the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to safely

carry out the duties and responsibilities as specified in

the operating procedures.

4.5.2

Refresher training shall be provided at least every three years,

29CFR1910.119(g)(2)

and more often if necessary, to each employee involved in

operating a process to assure that the employee understands and

adheres to the current operating procedures of the process. The

employer, in consultation with the employees involved in

operating the process, shall determine the appropriate frequency

of refresher training.

4.5.3

Training documentation - The employer shall ascertain that each

29CFR1910.119(g)(3)

employee involved in operating a process has received and

understood the training required by this paragraph. The

employer shall prepare a record which contains the identity of

the employee, the date of training, and the means used to verify

that the employee understood the training.

4.5.4

Contract employers shall:

29CFR1910.119(h)(3)

4.5.4.1 assure that each contract employee is trained in the work

29CFR1910.119(h)(3)(i)

practices necessary to safely perform his/her job, and

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