WAC 296-828-100   Scope.  This chapter applies to the laboratory use of hazardous chemicals. To determine if this chapter applies to your workplace, use Table 1.





     IMPORTANT:

     • When your laboratory operation is covered by this chapter, and you use any of the substances in Table 2, the following applies:

     – The exposure limits and any requirement protecting employees from skin and eye contact in the rules listed in Table 2 will still apply.

     – Where the action level (or where no action level exists, the permissible exposure limit) is exceeded for a substance listed in Table 2, the exposure evaluation and medical surveillance requirements in the substance rule will still apply.

     – You are not required to meet other requirements of the substance rule.

     • To get the permissible exposure limits (PELs) for hazardous chemicals used in your laboratory, see chapter 296-841 WAC, Airborne contaminants.

Table 2

WISHA Regulated Hazardous Chemicals

Acrylonitrile

Arsenic (inorganic)

Asbestos

Benzene

Butadiene

Cadmium

Coke ovens

Cotton dust

1, 2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane

Ethylene oxide

Formaldehyde

Lead

Methylene chloride

Methylenedianiline

Vinyl chloride

Ionizing radiation

4-Nitrobiphenyl

Alpha-Naphthylamine

4,4' Methylene bis (2 - chloroaniline)

Methyl chloromethyl ether

3,3'-Dichlorobenzidine (and its salts)

Bis-Chloromethyl ether

Beta-Naphthylamine benzidine

4-Aminodiphenyl

Ethyleneimine

Beta-Propiolactone

2-Acetylaminofluorene

4-Dimethylaminoazobenzene

N-Nitrosodimethylamine

[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, 49.17.060. 07-05-062, § 296-828-100, filed 2/20/07, effective 4/1/07; 06-02-060, § 296-828-100, filed 1/3/06, effective 4/1/06.]