Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 855 - ASBESTOS ABATEMENT FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND COMMERCIAL AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN ILLINOIS › Subpart E - LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY RESPONSIBILITIES AND STANDARDS FOR ABATEMENT › Section 855.370 - Workplace Entry and Exit Procedures

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Personnel Entry and Exit. All of the following procedures
				  shall be posted in the clean room by the abatement contractor. These procedures
				  shall be enforced by the abatement contractor and shall be followed throughout
				  the abatement project until clearance air monitoring has been performed and the
				  area has passed final clearance.
a)
				All personnel and authorized visitors shall enter the work area through the
				worker decontamination enclosure system.
b) All personnel who enter the work area
				shall sign the entry log, located in the clean room, upon entry and
				exit.
c) All personnel, before
				entering the work area, shall read and be familiar with all posted regulations,
				personal protection requirements (including workplace entry and exit
				procedures) and emergency procedures. A sign-off sheet shall be used to
				acknowledge that these have been reviewed and understood by all personnel prior
				to entry.
d) All personnel shall
				proceed first to the clean room, remove all clothing and don respiratory
				protection, disposable coveralls, head covering and foot covering. Clean
				respirators and protective clothing shall be provided and utilized by each
				person for each separate entry into the work area.
e) Personnel, wearing designated personal
				protective equipment, shall proceed from the clean room, through the shower
				room and equipment room, to the main work area.
f) Before leaving the work area, all
				personnel shall remove gross contamination from the outside of respirators and
				protective clothing by brushing and/or wet cleaning procedures. Each person
				shall clean the bottoms of protective footwear immediately prior to entering
				the equipment room.
g) Personnel
				shall proceed to the equipment room, where all protective equipment except
				respirators shall be removed. Disposable clothing shall be deposited into
				labeled containers for disposal (see Section
				855.390(h)
				 ).
h) Reusable, contaminated footwear shall be
				stored in the equipment room when not in use in the work area and shall be
				disposed of as asbestos contaminated waste upon completion of abatement.
				(Rubber boots may be decontaminated at the completion of the abatement for
				reuse.)
i) Still wearing
				respirators, personnel shall proceed to the shower area, clean the outside of
				the respirator and the exposed face area under running water prior to removal
				of the respirator, and then shower and shampoo to remove residual asbestos
				contamination. Various types of respirators will require slight modification of
				these procedures. An airline respirator with HEPA filtered disconnect
				protection may be disconnected in the equipment room and worn into the shower.
				A powered air-purifying respirator facepiece should be disconnected from the
				filter/power pack assembly, which is not waterproof, upon entering the
				shower.
j) After showering and
				drying, personnel shall proceed to the clean room and don clean disposable
				clothing if returning to the work area or street clothes at the end of the work
				shift.