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Respiratory Protection Program

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Scope and Application

This program applies to all employees who are required to wear respirators during normal work operations or during non-routine operations such as spill clean-up or emergency operations. Voluntary use of a respirator when a respirator is not required is subject only to the medical evaluation, cleaning, maintenance, and storage elements of this program and must be provided with certain information specified in this section of the program.

Voluntarily use of filtering facepieces (dust masks) is not subject to the medical evaluation, cleaning, storage and maintenance provisions of this program.

Employees who are required to wear a respirator do so at no cost to them. The expense associated with training, medical evaluations, and respiratory protection equipment will be born by MTU.