Washington State University
SAFETY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES MANUAL

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Regulated Areas

A regulated area is an area with restricted entry. See S80.70.

Do not eat, drink, smoke, chew, use, or store items such as food, beverages, cosmetics, and tobacco products in regulated areas.

WSU provides personal washing facilities. (WAC 296-800-23065)

• Provides a shower for each ten workers of each sex or proportionate number, who are required to shower during the shift.
  
  
• Provides soap for the worker's showers.
  
  
• Installs showers with mixing faucet.
  
  
• Provides workers who use showers with clean towels. Deposit soiled towels in contaminated collection containers. (S80.74)

WSU provides clean change rooms where workers can change from street wear to protective clothing and equips the change rooms with storage facilities for street clothes. Protective clothing is stored in storage facilities separate from street clothes storage.

Toilets in regulated areas must be in a separate room.

Laboratory workers and supervisors must make every effort to contain the chemical carcinogens in the regulated areas.

Do not cause contamination in nonregulated areas when removing equipment, material, or other items from a regulated area. All such items are to be decontaminated prior to removal.

Establish and implement decontamination procedures to remove carcinogens from the surfaces of materials, equipment, and the decontamination facility.

Prohibit dry sweeping and dry mopping in the laboratory. Use only wet methods.

Maintain negative air pressure within regulated areas.

• Use local area exhaust ventilation to satisfy this requirement.
  
  
• Clean makeup air replaces exhausted air.

Register the director or principal investigator of the regulated area in writing with Environmental Health and Safety, the WSU Biosafety Committee, and the appropriate department and college.