Washington – Compliance with chemical protection programs in the workplace for chemicals, which are controlled in the context of the toxic substances, helps “to ensure that potentially exposed people at the workplace are protected against inappropriate risk.”
The Environmental Protection Agency outlines this position in a recently published guide to the following WCPP requirements. It is intended for employers whose institutions in production (including import), processing, distribution in trade, the use or disposal of chemicals that were regulated in accordance with Section 6 of the Act are involved in the decision -making process of the agency.
The guideline, which also applies to workers who are exposed to such chemicals, are more precise with typical program requirements, including:
- Limits of the professional exposure that are defined under the TSCA
- Existing levels of action of the chemical exposure limit
- Work control
- Regulated areas
- Direct dermal contact controls
- Respiratory protection devices
- Personal protective equipment
- Exposition control plans
- recording
- Downstream notifications
The EPA notes that the guide “offers a comprehensive view of useful information”, but the users recommend “to consult the section WCPP within a certain risk management level for the specific provisions of the WCPP for a single chemical substance regulated by the EPA”.
As part of the previous regulation, EPA published chemical-specific compliance guides for methylene chloride or trichlorethylene as well as for the use of perchlorethylene in dry cleaning and energy storage.
In the guide, the agency adds that its rules do not replace Osha and that the regulated community “must ensure compliance with all applicable regulations”.
The guide continues: “If the OSHA contains the regulations for a chemical substance for which the EPA also announces a rule, the EPA calculates that the provisions of the EPA rule match the existing OSHA requirements as far as they are appropriate.”