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methods.
Because workers undertaking cleaning work may be exposed to dust levels that exceed the exposure standard, they should wear PPE.

Facilities

Decontamination facilities should be provided to allow workers to shower and change clothes after the completion of blasting. Many types of dust (particularly lead dust) may enter the body by ingestion. It is therefore important that workers take care with personal hygiene by washing hands and face prior to eating or drinking. A clean area, separated from the blast site, should be provided for consuming food.
Further guidance on the type of facilities that should be provided is available in the Code
of Practice: Managing the Work Environment and Facilities.

Personal protective equipment
PPE should include:
    * an airline respirator of the hood or helmet type, fitted with an inner bib and a high visibility shoulder cape
    * protective clothing (a jacket or protective suit)
    * protective gloves (canvas or leather)protective footwear
    * personal hearing protectors.

Regulation 44: If personal protective equipment (PPE) is to be used at the workplace, the person conducting the business or undertaking must ensure that the equipment is selected to minimise risk to health and safety including by ensuring that the equipment is:
    * suitable for the nature of the work and any hazard associated with the work
    * a suitable size and fit and reasonably comfortable for the person wearing it
    * maintained, repaired or replaced so it continues to minimise the risk
    * used or worn by the worker, so far as is reasonably practicable.
A person conducting a business or undertaking who directs the carrying out of work must provide the worker with information, training and instruction in the proper use and wearing of personal protective equipment; and the storage and maintenance of personal protective equipment.
A worker must, so far as reasonably able, wear the PPE in accordance with any information, training or reasonable instruction and must not intentionally misuse or damage the equipment.
As abrasive blasting is a high hazard activity, some PPE should always be worn regardless of other control measures in place.
Respiratory protection

Workers engaged in abrasive blasting should be supplied with and wear an airline positive pressure hood or helmet fitted with an inner bib and a high visibility shoulder cape, jacket or protective suit.

Respirator helmets must be supplied with breathing air of an adequate quality. If the air is supplied from compressed air cylinders, the source should be fitted with an alarm device that warns the wearer or an attendant when the cylinder pressure falls below a predetermined level. For information on air quality refer to AS/NZS 1715: Selection, use and maintenance of respiratory protective equipment.

Any air-fed respirator should have an