5.8 Sight Conservation Program

Question 1

Sight Conservation Program Responsibilities:

Commanding Officer?

Answer 1

Ensure that an effective sight conservation program is established within the Command,

Provide leadership by example regarding wearing of sight protection equipment.

Question 2

Sight Conservation Program Responsibilities:

Safety Officer?

Answer 2

Evaluation areas, processes, and equipment not previously evaluated by the Industrial Hygienist or when modifications have been made to workplace environments.

Question 3

Sight Conservation Program Responsibilities:

The Safety Officer also determines what?

Answer 3

Sight protection equipment requirements for personnel in immediate and adjacent work areas.

Question 4

Sight Conservation Program Responsibilities:

The safety officer maintains a list of what?

Answer 4

Eye hazardous areas, processes,

Operations that require eye protection and those areas, which require eyewash or deluge shower facilities.

Question 5

Sight Conservation Program Responsibilities:

The safety officer conducts an annual evaluation for what?

Answer 5

Command compliance to the program.

Question 6

Sight Conservation Program Responsibilities:

Division Officers?

Answer 6

Ensure sight hazardous areas are properly marked and labeled,

Ensure personnel use proper eye protective devices when required.

Question 7

Sight Conservation Program Responsibilities:

Who refers personnel who wear corrective eyewear and work in eye hazard areas to the medical department to obtain prescription safety eyewear?

Answer 7

Division Officers.

Question 8

Sight Conservation Program Responsibilities:

Medical Department Representative?

Answer 8

Schedules sight screening examinations,

Provide refractory services and order eyeglass prescriptions as necessary.

Question 9

Sight Conservation Program Responsibilities:

All Hands?

Answer 9

Comply with eye hazardous warning labels,

Properly wear sight protection equipment when in sight hazardous areas or performing eye hazardous evolutions.

Question 10

Personnel In Sight Conservation:

Who are the personnel required to be in the sight conservation program?

Answer 10

Class III or Class IV laser workers.

Question 11

Personnel Enrolled In Sight Conservation:

Who are the Class III or Class IV laser workers?

Answer 11

Research and development (R&D) and laboratory personnel who routinely work with unenclosed class III (LA-9/P) and class IV laser beams,

Routinely repair or align class III or class IV laser system.

Question 12

Personnel Enrolled In Sight Conservation:

Other laser workers where the potential for accidental exposure is deemed very unlikely DO NOT require what?

Answer 12

Medical surveillance.

Question 13

Designating Eye Hazardous Areas:

Determination?

Answer 13

Baseline IH survey.

Question 14

Designating Eye Hazardous Areas:

Who maintains the baseline IH survey?

Answer 14

Maintained by Ship’s Safety Officer.

Question 15

Designating Eye Hazardous Areas:

What are the operations requiring eye protection?

Answer 15

Pouring or handling molten metals,

Pouring or handling corrosive liquids/solids,

Cutting and welding operation,

Drilling,

Grinding,

Milling,

Chipping,

Sand Blasting.

Question 16

Designating Eye Hazardous Areas:

Designation deck striping?

Answer 16

2- to 3 - inch yellow and black striped or checkerboard tape,

NSN:

9905- 01-342- 5934 for checkerboard,

9905-01-342-5933 for striped tape.

Question 17

Designating Eye Hazardous Areas:

Where do you place deck striping?

Answer 17

Place on deck around operator areas.

Question 18

Designating Eye Hazardous Areas:

Designation:

Where do the placards go?

Answer 18

Placards mounted directly above the hazard, machinery, or door in a conspicuous location.

Question 19

Designating Eye Hazardous Areas:

What is on the placard?

Answer 19

“CAUTION – Eye Protection Required in This Area”.

Question 20

Designating Eye Hazardous Areas:

Eye Hazard signs or labels are NOT required on what?

Answer 20

Individual tools.

Question 21

Shipboard Eye Protective Gear:

What are the types of protective eyewear equipment?

Answer 21

Safety goggles/spectacles,

Chemical goggles,

Welding goggles/Helmet,

Chipping goggles,

Face Shields,

Ballistic Eye Protection Devices.

Question 22

Shipboard Eye Protective Gear:

Safety Goggles?

Answer 22

Areas where possibility of flying objects, particulate, mists or vapors enter the eye,

Spectacles with suitable filters are permitted for gas welding operations for light work and for inspections.

Question 23

Shipboard Eye Protective Gear:

Chemical goggles?

Answer 23

Provide protection from liquids, splashes, mists, and sprays,

Goggles may be flexible or rigid frame with a separate, cushioned fitting surface held in place by a supporting band.

Question 24

Shipboard Eye Protective Gear:

Welding goggles/Helmet?

Answer 24

Provide protection from glare and injurious radiation,

May contain lens filters to protect eyes from ultraviolet, infrared and visible rays generated by the work operations,

Arc welding or heavy gas cutting,

Protection to the eyes, face, ears, and neck against intense radiation and weld spatter.

Question 25

Shipboard Eye Protective Gear: Chipping goggles?

Answer 25

Provide protection from relatively large flying objects such as grinding, chipping or chiseling.

Question 26

Shipboard Eye Protective Gear: Face Shields?

Answer 26

Provide protection to the face and neck from flying particles, liquids, or sprays, Must be worn with protective eyewear for adequate protection.

Question 27

Shipboard Eye Protective Gear: Ballistic Eye Protection Devices?

Answer 27

May replace standard safety glasses, Provide an additional level of protection for high impact situations.

Question 28

Equipment Requirements: General requirements are in compliance with what organization?

Answer 28

American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

Question 29

Equipment Requirements: General requirements: What designator needs to be on all eye and face protection equipment?

Answer 29

“Z-87.”

Question 30

Equipment Requirements: General requirements: If eyewear is re-usable, how do you clean them?

Answer 30

With hot, soapy water and rinse, then immerse into disinfectant solution for 10 minutes and allow to air dry.

Question 31

Equipment Requirements: Temporary eyewear?

Answer 31

Command maintains sufficient quantity for visitors, workers, and personnel awaiting prescription lenses.

Question 32

Emergency Eyewash Facilities: Eyewash stations must be what?

Answer 32

Must be available and properly maintained.

Question 33

Emergency Eyewash Facilities: Eyewash stations require monthly what?

Answer 33

PMS requirements.

Question 34

Emergency Eyewash Facilities: Eyewash stations must be posted with what?

Answer 34

Posted with signs identifying their locations.

Question 35

Emergency Eyewash Facilities: Eyewash stations are labeled how?

Answer 35

Green signs with white lettering identifying unit as emergency eyewash station.

Question 36

Emergency Eyewash Facilities: Emergency shower and eyewash or eye/face wash units must be available wherever personnel may be exposed to what?

Answer 36

Corrosive materials.

Question 37

Emergency Eyewash Facilities: What are examples of corrosive materials spaces?

Answer 37

Battery Charging areas, Chemical, water testing and medical laboratories, HAZMAT/Chemical Area, Main and auxiliary machinery spaces, Dark rooms and x-ray developing areas, Paint mixing and issue rooms, Oil labs, Medical and dental spaces.

Question 38

Emergency Eyewash Facilities: The eye wash station has to be what?

Answer 38

Unobstructed (same level).

Question 39

Emergency Eyewash Facilities: Where must the eye wash stations be located?

Answer 39

Must be within 10 seconds from the hazard.

Question 40

Emergency Eyewash Facilities: How must the eye wash station be positioned?

Answer 40

Be positioned within the eyewash nozzle not less than 33 inches or more than 45 inches above the deck and 6 inches minimum from the nearest wall or obstruction.

Question 41

Emergency Eyewash Facilities: What is the flow rate for an eye wash station?

Answer 41

Minimum flow rate of 0.4 gallons per minute for 15 continous minutes.

Question 42

Emergency Eyewash Facilities: What are the types of emergency eyewash units?

Answer 42

Plumbed units preferred, If running water is not available, self-contained (portable) units are authorized.

Question 43

Emergency Eyewash Facilities: Remote locations must have a visible and audible alarm when activated to alert what personnel?

Answer 43

Damage Control Central, Quarterdeck, Bridge.

Question 44

Sight Conservation Program Training: Who conducts the sight conservation training?

Answer 44

The safety officer.

Question 45

Sight Conservation Program Training: What is the periodicity of the sight conservation training?

Answer 45

Conducts training for all newly reporting personnel during indoctrination and annually thereafter.

Question 46

Sight Conservation Program Training: What are the topics of the sight conservation training?

Answer 46

Types of eye hazards and processes, Types of eye protection, Eyewash location and proper use, First aid procedures.