Chapter VII.  Personal Protective Equipment

(Use of Air-Supplied Respirator)

Article 32.  When the employer engages his/her workers in any of the following work, he/she shall have the workers wear an air-supplied respirator:

(1)   Work provided for in l) of item (6) of paragraph 1 of Article 1.

(2)   Work inside of a tank without installation of a local exhaust ventilation system, a push-pull type ventilation system, a general ventilation system or equipment to seal up the emission source of organic solvent vapour provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 9.

2.  The provision of paragraph 2 of Article 18-2 shall apply when the employer requires workers to use an air-supplied respirator under the provision of the preceding paragraph..

(Use of Air-Supplied Respirator or Gas Masks for Organic Gases)

Article 33.  The employer who is to assign any one of the works listed hereunder to his/her workers shall have each of such workers use the air-supplied respirators or gas masks for organic gases.

(1)   Work to be performed in a tank installed with a general ventilation system conforming to paragraph 1 of Article 6.

(2)   Work to be performed in a tank without installation of a local exhaust ventilation system, a push-pull type ventilation system or equipment to seal up the emission source of organic solvent vapour as is provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 8.

(3)   Spray work using the organic solvent to be performed in a indoor workshop of no installation of equipment to seal up the emission source of organic solvent vapor and local ventilation system, conforming to the provision of paragraph 1 of Article 9 but not including that to be executed in a tank, etc..

(4)   Work to be performed indoors and in similar places without installation of equipment to seal up the emission source of organic solvent vapor , a local exhaust ventilation system and a push-pull type ventilation system, conforming to the provision of Article 10.

(5)   Work to be performed indoors without installation of equipment to seal up the emission source of organic solvent vapor , a local exhaust ventilation system and a push-pull type ventilation system, conforming to the provision of Article 11.

(6)   Organic solvent work to be performed in indoor workshops and the like with installation of a push-pull type ventilation system for the objects such as trucks with cargo platform flaps having shapes which can cause turbulence of the air flow in the booth with installation of a push-pull type ventilation system.

(7)   Work to open equipment to seal up the emission source of organic solvent vapor, which is to be performed indoors (exclusive of the work to handle such equipment from which organic solvents and the like have already been removed by cleaning).

2.  The provision of paragraph 2 of Article 18-2 shall be applied to the cases when workers wear air-supplied respirators in compliance with the provision of the preceding paragraph.

(Number of Units of Personal Protective Equipment, and the like)

Article 33-2.   The employer shall prepare the personal protective equipment stipulated in item (2) of paragraph 1 of Article 18-2, paragraph 1 of Article 32 or paragraph 1 of the preceding Article in a number the same as or more than that of the workers that work in that location, and shall always keep them effective and hygienic.

(Workers' Duty to Use Personal Protective Equipment)

Article 34.  Workers who are engaged in the work specified in item (2) of paragraph 1 of Article 18-2, and each item of paragraph 1 of Article 32 and of paragraph 1 of Article 33 shall use the personal protective equipment specified in item (2) of paragraph 1 of Article 18-2, paragraph 1 of Article 32, or paragraph 1 of Article 33 during the period of the said work.