Pennsylvania Code
Title 34 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Part I - Department of Labor and Industry
Chapter 39 - SAFETY STANDARDS-GENERAL
Subchapter C - HEAD AND EYE PROTECTION
MANUFACTURE OF PROTECTORS
Section 39.584 - Respirators
Universal Citation: 34 PA Code ยง 39.584
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 38, September 21, 2024
(a) Respirators shall be of approved types. They shall be classified as follows according to the hazard they are designed to protect against, such as dust, fumes and mist or other atmospheric particulate matter:
(1)
Type A. Mechanically generated dusts resulting principally
from the disintegration of a solid, such as the dust clouds produced in the
various processes of mining, quarrying, and tunneling and the various
industrial operations of grinding, crushing and general processing of
minerals.
(2)
Type
B. Fumes of various metals (usually their chemical compounds, as
oxides or carbonates), such as lead, mercury (except mercury vapor), manganese,
copper, chromium, iron, cadmium, zinc, magnesium, aluminum, antimony and
arsenic resulting from sublimation or the condensation of their vapor, or from
the chemical reactions between their vapor and gases.
(3)
Type C. Mists as
produced by spray coating with paint and vitreous enamels, chromic acid mist as
produced in chromium plating, and other mists of materials whose liquid vehicle
does not produce harmful gases or vapors.
(4)
Types AB, AC, and the
like. Combinations of the preceding types.
(5)
Type D. Combinations to
include all of the preceding types.
(b) In addition to the types listed in this section, respirators for protection against a single substance of any of the above types of suspensions shall be approved as suitable for that substance.
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