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Severe Respiratory Illness

1 What is the name of the 2 What are its specific objectives related to the Priority Unwanted
critical control for Severe
Event (PUE)?
Respiratory Illness?
Respiratory Protection Program Worker exposures monitoring, use of PPE and medical surveillance avoid development of
severe respiratory illness

3 What are the critical 4 What are the activities 5 What can be sampled from
within the management
control performance
the set of activities for
requirements to meet the systems that support verification, providing a
objectives? having the critical control clear image of the critical
able to do what is required? control status?
An annual industrial hygiene plan Annual review and execution of the Workers interviews in dusty work
identifies workers or group of workers industrial hygiene plan areas regarding controls, training and
potentially exposed to silica and cement monitoring in their work area
dust sources

Industrial hygiene monitoring is Qualitative and quantitative assessments Site industrial hygiene data contained
performed for identified workers (as are used to budget for the annual in reports or databases to verify that
individuals or groups) to determine the monitoring campaign all potentially exposed workers have
severity of exposure to silica and cement been assessed for exposure to silica and
dust cement dust

Exposed workers are included in an Medical surveillance planning Records of workers identified as exposed
annual respiratory protection program Training and fit testing plan to respiratory hazards demonstrate that
which includes hazard training, correct they are:
use of adequate PPE (e.g. fit testing) and PPE use and fit testing plan 1) trained and fit tested
medical surveillance
2) supplied with PPE that is appropriate
for the respiratory hazard
3) regularly assessed by medical
surveillance activities

6 What is the target performance for critical 7 What is the critical control performance
trigger for shutdown, critical control review or
control?
investigation?
Worker exposures to silica and portland cement dust are A case of severe respiratory illness is identified on site
measured, the correct PPE is used, and medical surveillance
activities are being performed. Worker exposures are kept below
limits for silica (0.025 mg/m ) and/or portland cement (1.0 mg/m ) 3
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