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has bben documented as receiving eposures over published permissible exposure levels. If an employee develops a lost-time illness or injury during this project, the Project Superintendent must be provided with a physician's statement authorizing the employee to return to work. Medical Records: Documentation of medical exams shall be provided as part of the Certificate of Worker or Visitor Acknowledgment. Medical records shall be maintained in accordance with CFR 29 Part 1910 Section . 120, and CFR 29 Part 1926 Section . 65. PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT: GENERAL: General description and discussion of the levels of protection and protective gear. The two basic objectives of any PPE program should be to protect the worker from safety and health hazards, and to prevent injury to the worker from incorrect use and/or malfunction of the PPE. No single combination of protective equipment and clothing is capable of protecting against all hazards. Thus PPE shall be used in conjunction with other protective methods such as engineering controls and proper work practices to minimize exposure potential and/or injury to the employee. The use of PPE can itself cause worker hazards due to physical and/or psychological stress as well as improper or negligent use. The proper PPE must be selected which controls exposure to the worker while allowing the worker to complete his/her tasks in a safe manner. The contractor shall maintain a comprehensive personal protective equipment program which includes hazard identification, medical monitoring, environmental surveillance; selection, use, maintenance and decontamination of PPE; and adequate training for all personnel. As required by the standard, PPE must be selected which will protect employees from the specific hazards which they are likely to encounter during their work on-site. Selection of the appropriate PPE is a complex process which shall take into consideration a variety of factors. Key factors involved in this process are identification of the hazards, or suspected hazards; their routes of potential hazard to employees (inhalation, skin absorption, ingestion, and eye or skin contact) ; and the performance of the PPE materials (and seams) in providing a barrier to these hazards. The amount of protection provided by PPE is material-hazard specific. That is, protective equipment materials will protect well against some hazardous substances and poorly, or not at all, against others. In many instances, protective equipment materials cannot be found which will provide continuous protection from the particular hazardous substance. In these cases the breakthrough time of the protective material shall exceed the work durations. 91 Site Safety 6 Health Plan Rev./1.0 October 20, 1997