4.27.5-1 PURPOSE
4.27.5-2 DISCUSSION
4.27.5-3 DEFINITIONS
A. Action Levels (AL): Employee exposure, without regard to the use of respirators, to an airborne concentration of lead of thirty micrograms per cubic meter of air (30 ug/m3) averaged over an eight-hour period.
B. Exposure Monitoring: Monitoring exposure of lead concentrations that occur when the employee is not wearing a respirator.
C. Lead: Metallic lead, inorganic compounds, and organic lead soaps. Excluded from this definition are all other organic lead compounds.
D. Permissible Exposure Limits (PEL): Lead concentration exposure less than fifty micrograms per cubic meter of air (50 ug/m3) averaged over an eight-hour period.
4.27.5-4 EXPOSURE MONITORING
1. The City will obtain monitoring for the initial determination of possible lead exposure levels. This may be limited to a representative sample of the exposed employees who the Risk Manager reasonably believes are exposed to the greatest airborne concentrations of lead.
2. Within five working days after the receipt of the monitoring results, Risk Management shall notify each employee in writing of the results that represent that employee's exposure.
3. Whenever the monitoring results, without regard to respirators, exceeds the permissible exposure limit; Risk Management shall prepare a written notice to all affected employees that the permissible limit was exceeded and a description of the corrective action taken or to be taken to reduce exposure to or below the permissible exposure limit.
1. If there are any changes in work place practices that may result in new or additional exposure to lead, or whenever the Department Head or Risk Manager has any other reason to suspect a change which may result in exposures to lead, additional monitoring will be completed in accordance with OAR 2Z, 1910.1025 Lead Exposure.
4.27.5-5 WORKPLACE EXPOSURE TO LEAD
1. All firing ranges where ammunition is being spent/fired by handguns, rifles,shotguns, or other defined weapon.
4.27.5-6 SAFE WORKPLACE PRACTICES WHEN WORKING AROUND LEAD
A. Whenever employees are working with lead containing material, or performing processes that may release airborne lead, the following safe workplace practices will be observed:
1. No eating, drinking, chewing, or smoking while working with lead containing materials;
2. Employees will wash their hands before eating, drinking, chewing, or smoking after working with lead containing materials;
3. Gloves may be available for use by employees while working with lead containing materials; and as directed by Department procedures, especially when police department staff are picking up spent cartridges at the firing range;
4. Supervisors and Employees will review material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) so that employees will have knowledge of lead containing materials.
4.27.5-7 RECORDKEEPING
1. The date(s), number, duration, location and results of each of the samples taken, including a description of the sampling procedure used to determine representative employee exposure;
2. A description of the sampling and analytical methods used and evidence of their accuracy;
3. Name, employee number, and job classification of the employee monitoredand of all other employees, whose exposure the measurement is intended to represent; and
4. Environmental variables that could affect the measurement of employee exposure.
4.27.5-8 TRAINING
1. Hygiene practices to reduce exposure to lead contaminate;
2. Review of the procedures concerning lead exposure, workplace safety practices;
3. Review of health concerns related to lead exposure; and
4. Distribution of OAR 2Z, 1910.1025 Lead, Appendix A and Appendix B.
Carla C. Piluso
Chief of Police
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