Wood preservation facilities, chromated copper arsenate: chapter B, table 8

Table 8. Additional Safety Precautions for Personnel Working with CCA

Activity

Recommendations

Objective: Ensure safe workplace practices for each activity during the treatment process

Cleaning cylinders, fixation chambers or storage tanks

Removing load jams

Removing treated charges from cylinders

And other process as required if preservative concentrations are above regulatory values or concentrations are unknown.

Personal protective equipment: Select NIOSH-approved respirators with combination of acid gas/high-efficiency filter cartridges (or breathing apparatus if working in an enclosed environment) approved for inorganic arsenic.