Original Effective Date: 10/1/02 Purpose

To establish a requirement for each division/facility/school to survey the activities performed by its employees; identify safety and occupational health hazards associated with those activities; and determine engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment necessary to protect the employees. Policy 1. Each division/facility/school shall assess by job classification the routine, normal, and reasonably anticipated activities performed by its employees, and shall identify the hazards which are reasonably anticipated to be associated with those activities. 2. For each identified hazard, the division/facility/school shall determine the engineering controls, administrative controls, training, and personal protective equipment necessary to protect employees from the hazard. 3. The results of this assessment shall be documented in written form, signed and dated by the assessor(s), and made available to the employees within the job classification. 4. The division/facility/school shall implement the results of the assessment by: A. Installing the identified engineering controls. B. Developing and implementing the identified administrative controls. C. Providing the identified personal protective equipment for each affected employee, in compliance with Policy?: Personal Protective Equipment and, if necessary, Policy?: Respirator Program Requirements. D. Providing training to each affected employee on the results of the hazard assessment, and on each identified topic identified in the hazard assessment. 5. Each division/facility/school shall reassess the activities of each job classification under its authority whenever an activity or the hazards associated with an activity changes substantially