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Office of Safety, Health, and Environment (OSHE)

Safety Programs

Permit-Required Confined Spaces

This suborder establishes the safety requirements for identifying, evaluating, and entering permit-required confined spaces (pits, manholes, equipment/reactors

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

This suborder provides the necessary information to identify work situations that require the use of PPE, the proper selection and use of PPE, and documentation

Powered Industrial Trucks (PITs) Program

This suborder aims to minimize hazards associated with powered industrial trucks (PITs). It applies to NIST employees and associates who work with powered

Radiofrequency and Microwave Radiation Safety Program

This suborder’s purpose is to ensure the safety of personnel working with or around equipment capable of generating radiofrequency and/or microwave radiation

Respiratory Protection Program

This suborder relates to voluntary or required respirator use and is designed to prevent employees from breathing airborne hazards when effective engineering

Safety Culture Program

NIST recognizes that a strong and positive safety culture is essential to: Creating and maintaining a safe work environment; and Eliminating or minimizing

Walking and Working Surface Program

This suborder is to establish requirements and associated roles and responsibilities to eliminate or reduce to the greatest extent possible hazards associated