Use the checklist below to learn if your respiratory protection program meets OSHA standards.
Does your program contain written procedures for (check all that apply):
- Your specific workplace
- Selecting respirators
- Medical evaluations of employees required to wear respirators
- Fit testing
- Routine and emergency respirator use
- Schedules for cleaning, disinfecting, storing, inspecting, repairing, discarding, and maintain respirators
- Ensuring adequate air quality for supplied-air respirators
- Training in respiratory hazards
- Training in proper use and maintenance of respirators
- Program evaluation
- Ensuring that employees who voluntarily wear respirators (including filtering facepieces) comply with the medical evaluation and cleaning, sorting and maintenance requirements of the standard
- A designated program administrator who is qualified to administer the program
- Updating the written program as necessary to account for changes in the workplace and affecting respirator use
- Providing equipment, training, and medical evaluations at no cost to employees
If you do not check all of the boxes above, your respiratory protection program does not meet OSHA standards.
Source: OSHA Small Entity Compliance Guide for the Respiratory Protection Standard
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