Wash. Admin. Code § 16-233-126 - Decontamination supplies for workers-40 C.F.R., Section 170.411
(1)
Requirement. The agricultural employer must provide
decontamination supplies for routine washing and emergency decontamination in
accordance with this section for any worker on an agricultural establishment
who is performing an activity in an area where a pesticide was applied and who
contacts anything that has been treated with the pesticide including, but not
limited to, soil, water, and plants.
(2)
Materials and quantities.
The decontamination supplies required in subsection (1) of this
section must provide adequate water at a minimum to include at least one gallon
of water per worker at the beginning of each worker's work period for routine
washing and emergency decontamination, soap, and single-use towels. The
supplies must meet all of the following requirements:
(a)
Water. At all times when
this part requires agricultural employers to make water available to workers,
the agricultural employer must ensure that it is of a quality and temperature
that will not cause illness or injury when it contacts the skin or eyes or if
it is swallowed. If a water source is used for mixing pesticides, it must not
be used for decontamination, unless equipped with properly functioning valves
or other mechanisms that prevent contamination of the water with pesticides,
such as anti-backflow siphons, one-way or check valves, or an air gap
sufficient to prevent contamination.
(b)
Soap and single-use towels.
The agricultural employer must provide soap and single-use towels for
drying in quantities sufficient to meet the workers' reasonable needs. Hand
sanitizing gels and liquids or wet towelettes do not meet the requirement for
soap. Wet towelettes do not meet the requirement for single-use
towels.
(3)
Timing.
(a) If any pesticide
with a restricted-entry interval greater than four hours was applied, the
decontamination supplies must be provided from the time workers first enter the
treated area until at least thirty days after the restricted-entry interval
expires.
(b) If the only pesticides
applied in the treated area are products with restricted-entry intervals of
four hours or less, the decontamination supplies must be provided from the time
workers first enter the treated area until at least seven days after the
restricted-entry interval expires.
(4)
Location. The
decontamination supplies must be located together outside any treated area or
area subject to a restricted-entry interval, and must be reasonably accessible
to the workers. The decontamination supplies must not be more than 1/4 mile
from where workers are working, except that where workers are working more than
1/4 mile from the nearest place of vehicular access or more than 1/4 mile from
any nontreated area, the decontamination supplies may be at the nearest place
of vehicular access outside any treated area or area subject to a
restricted-entry interval.
(5)
Decontamination after early entry activities. At the end of any exposure period
for workers engaged in early entry activities permitted by WAC
16-233-311
and involving contact with anything that has been treated with the pesticide to
which the restricted-entry interval applies including, but not limited to,
soil, water, air, or surfaces of plants, the agricultural employer shall
provide, at the site where the workers remove personal protective equipment,
soap, single-use towels, and an adequate amount of water so that the workers
may wash thoroughly. At least ten gallons of water for one employee and twenty
gallons of water for two or more employees shall be provided at early entry
sites that do not have running water.
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