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® medical surveillance is warranted; otherwise, it probably is not. Constructor, ® consultant and LFG developer staff who routinely work directly with LFG at municipal ® landfills, as well as with other issues such as at hazardous waste sites, would fall into ® this category; most others would not. 29 CFR Part 1910.20 governs access to ® employee exposure medical records. 7. Safety Training Program ® A basic safety training program, is usually provided to serve the following functions: ® 1 . Teach and inform employees about basic safety concerns. ® 2. Address job-specific hazards likely to be encountered. 3.- Fulfill-certain legal notification and training requirements. -` ® 4. Heighten employee awareness. ® 8. Personnel and Work Environment Monitoring ® Consistent with any applicable "general health and safety clause," an employer must ® monitor employees and/or the work environment whenever a risk for employee ® exposure is known or can be suspected. Requirements for personnel or work . environment monitoring are dependent on the type of work being performed and ® specific site conditions. Therefore, monitoring may or may not be appropriate, depending on the situation and whether or not specifically required by federal, state, ® or local regulations. The employer will determine when, and at what frequency, such ® monitoring should be performed. s Typically in industrial processes, the contaminants or substances which may cause a health threat are known and monitoring is straightforward. For certain specific ® substances of great concern, action levels, at and above which monitoring must take ® place, are specified by regulation (e.g., the action level for vinyl chloride is 0.5 parts- per-million or ppm). The action level for a given substance is typically set at one-half ® of the TLV or OSHA PEL, but may be specified otherwise by regulation. When it is necessary to monitor work on waste sites, more complex issues are encountered. A ® thorough site characterization is necessary at the outset of site work for the safety ® of personnel who will engage in field monitoring, construction, engineering, or LFG ® recovery activities. The monitoring or sampling plan may need to be modified or ® adjusted based on findings. ® Monitoring or sampling techniques could involve the use of a combustible gas analyzer ® (CGA) or an organic vapor analyzer-flame ionization detector (OVA-FID) to monitor ® 1:7