Protective Clothing and Equipment
Employers must provide workers with appropriate, clean, and dry protective work clothing and equipment at no cost to the employee when:
- they are exposed to lead above the PEL or
- the possibility of skin or eye irritation exists.
Lead requires the use of effective PPE.
Appropriate protective work clothing and equipment used on construction sites includes:
- Coveralls or other full-body work clothing;
- Gloves, hats, and shoes or disposable shoe coverlets;
- Vented goggles or face shields with protective spectacles or goggles;
- Welding or abrasive blasting helmets; and
- Respirators
Clean work clothing must be issued daily to employees whose exposure levels to lead are above 200 µg/m3, weekly if exposures are above the PEL but at or below 200 µ;g/m3 or where the possibility of skin or eye irritation exists.
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2-5. Clean work clothing must be issued daily to employees whose exposure levels to lead are above _____.
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