Update your OSHA safety manual: Fit testing and glutaraldehyde spills
OSHA Watch, November 5, 2008
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This month, Quality America focuses on fit testing employees for respirators and OSHA’s best practices for responding to glutaraldehyde spills.
N-95 respirators require annual fit testing for TB protection
It may look more like a mask than those goggled-eyed full-face respirators you see in emergency hazmat scenes, but a disposable N-95 is a respirator and subject to all of OSHA’s respiratory protection standard requirements.
OSHA is now unfettered from citing healthcare facilities for failing to annually fit test employees for respirators used for protection against TB.
“There will be no delay in enforcement,” says an OSHA spokesperson. If OSHA finds employees who are wearing respirators to protect against TB or any other respiratory hazard and they have not been fit tested in the previous 12 months, the employer will see a citation, the spokesperson adds.
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