Required for beryllium workers

HS4610-CBT, "Basic Air Purifying Respirator Training"

Persons required or choosing to use air purifying respirators

Annually

HS4620-CBT, "Basic Air-Supplied Respirator Training"

Persons required to use air supplied respirators

HS4630-S, "SCBA - Interspiro/Spiromatic-Specific"a

Persons required to use SCBAs

a Self-contained breathing apparatus.

Visitors and other ancillary personnel in beryllium work areas shall be briefed on area specific hazards, including beryllium, and controls by the Responsible Individual or designee.

Retraining for beryllium workers and beryllium-associated workers is required every 2 years or sooner if a worker's performance in work involving beryllium indicates that he or she has not retained the required proficiency.

When respirators or other PPE is required, training shall be conducted as required by Document 11.1.

3.5.10 Medical Surveillance

All workers identified as beryllium-associated workers shall be offered beryllium medical surveillance in accordance with 10 CFR 850. The Health Services Department provides medical surveillance only for UC employees at no charge and at convenient times to accommodate their work schedules. All other workers are offered medical surveillance through their employers. Participation in the medical program is voluntary, i.e., subject to a worker's consent to specific medical tests.

The Responsible Individual shall identify beryllium workers on the IWS (see Section 3.5.3) and ensure that Hazards Control and Health Services Departments are on distribution. The payroll supervisor shall also ensure that medical surveillance is offered to beryllium-associated workers. These departments jointly develop and maintain a list of eligible beryllium-associated workers. The list is updated at regular intervals as new beryllium-associated workers are identified in the field and as others leave LLNL service. The Hazards Control Department and other LLNL departments, as necessary, provide the Health Services Department and employers of subcontract workers with information about exposure and industrial hygiene sampling as needed to direct and coordinate the Beryllium Medical Surveillance Program. Such information includes baseline inventories, hazard assessment and exposure monitoring data, and the identity and nature of activities covered under the CBDPP. The Health Services Department's ES