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Mac’s Safety Space: Shoo beedoobee--splattered, splattered!
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March 29, 2012
In the never ending discourse on the subject of emergency eyewash stations, I’d like to take a moment to remind folks that it appears that the TJC surveyors have access to the ANSI Emergency Eyewash and Shower Equipment Standards and they have become very diligent in ferreting out (apologies to the ferrets in the audience – I don’t mean to offend) practices that are not consistent with the “recommendations” contained therein. And so, let me say this:
If your organization has chosen to maintain your emergency eyewash stations on a lesser frequency than weekly, then you had best conducted a risk assessment to demonstrate that you are ensuring the same level of safety that you would if your were maintaining them on a weekly basis. Water temperature, water pressures, “cleanness” of the flushing liquid, whether access to the equipment is obstructed – these all need to be considered in the mix, because, and I can tell you this with a great deal of certainty, if you are doing these inspections less than weekly, you will be cited during survey.
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