{"id":371,"date":"2017-10-04T09:22:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csrem.org\/?p=371"},"modified":"2017-10-04T09:22:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T13:22:20","slug":"octobers-meeting-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csrem.org\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"October&#8217;s Meeting Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Glenn:<\/p>\n<p>Hello Roundtable folks,<\/p>\n<p>The next CSREM Roundtable meeting is Tuesday,\u00a0October 10th at 10:00. This month\u2019s topic is the new Silica Standard that went into effect 09\/23\/17. Yes, the agency said it will not begin issuing fines and citations for another 30 days. The Roundtable has\u00a0had this standard explained to us twice now once March 2016 by Susan Shepherd (State view) and again on December 2016 by Bob Kunz (contractors view).\u00a0This month\u2019s speaker is\u00a0Lisa J. Sullivan, Regional Industrial Hygienist, USDOL \u2013 OSHA, Region 1 (will present the Federal view).<\/p>\n<p>Member of the Roundtable will learn about OSHA\u2019s new standard for Occupational Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica. The dangers and health risks of silica exposure will be described, and the requirements for Construction will be explained.\u00a0 The phase-in period and effective dates for various aspects of the standard will be covered during Lisa\u2019s presentation.<\/p>\n<p>This is not just a review of the Standard. The rule reduces acceptable exposure limits to airborne silica and requires a written plan, training and, in some cases, medical monitoring to manage the dust. Lisa is prepared to answer the tough questions i.e. as they pertain to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Medical Surveillance.\u00a0Do I just create a form outlining the reason for the medical surveillance and have any person who would be potentially wearing a respirator more than 30 days annually sign it stating either yes or no to the exam?\u00a0 Or do I offer it to all of the guys that we have fit tested regularly?\u00a0 We do have a core group of guys that work with asbestos that have received chest x-rays, would they be covered under this as well since they do wear respirators?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Respirators. When fit testing is to be completed and the 30 day requirement and the medical surveillance that is to take place. When does a chest x-ray take place and can the person refuse that? Additionally my biggest question is what if a person wears the respirator for 20 minutes one day is that considered a day? How are you counting the thirty days &#8211; is it 8 hours or is it just use in a day?\u00a0There appears to be two interpretations of the time clock. What do you do if an employee leave for a period of time and comes back?\u00a0What do you do if a worker wears their respirators one week then don&#8217;t use it again for a month how do you monitor that is it thirty consecutive days or any thirty days? The &#8220;30 days&#8221; in a year of respirator use is unclear.\u00a0 Does this mean that if worn for 30 separate days this applies? Or does it mean that 240 hours of respirator use in a year?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Medical Examinations &#8211; chest X-ray requires a B- reader, there is a physical exam, there is a pulmonary function test required and a TB test which requires a second medical visit because they have to read the test two days later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This month\u2019s meeting is\u00a0being sponsored by\u00a0Nancy Hughes of\u00a0OHS Training &amp; Consulting Inc\u00a0&amp; Glenn Narrow of Greenwood Industries\u00a0and hosted by\u00a0Dan Lavoie of Liberty Mutual. Meeting is being held at\u00a0Liberty Mutual Conference Center, Riverside Office Park, 20 Riverside Road, Weston, MA 02493. If ya get lost, call Nancy on her cell phone # 617-959-4414.<\/p>\n<p>ADDITIONALLY: As you know,\u00a0we\u00a0renewed\u00a0our OSHA Alliance September 01, 2017 at last month\u2019s meeting. The new\u00a0Alliance Agreement will\u00a0be available at this month\u2019s meeting for those of you who could not attend last month\u2019s Alliance renewal resigning ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>As customary, please RSVP to Nancy Hughes of OHS Training &amp; Consulting Inc. at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:nancy.ohstc@gmail.com\">nancy.ohstc@gmail.com<\/a>, by noontime\u00a0this\u00a0Friday\u00a0October 6th\u00a0to insure we have planned security badging, accurate head count for the luncheon and correct seating arrangements for this meeting.\u00a0It is pretty simple, if you don\u2019t RSVP, we will not spend our valuable time leaving Lisa\u2019s presentation to vouch for folks held up at the security desk who did not bother to reply to this invitation of their planned attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Glenn: Hello Roundtable folks, The next CSREM Roundtable meeting is Tuesday,\u00a0October 10th at 10:00. This month\u2019s topic is the new Silica Standard that went into effect 09\/23\/17. Yes, the agency said it will not begin issuing fines and citations for another 30 days. The Roundtable has\u00a0had this standard explained to us twice now once&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/csrem.org\/?p=371\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-related","category-silica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csrem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csrem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csrem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csrem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csrem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csrem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"http:\/\/csrem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csrem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csrem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csrem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}