RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS AT CARC PAINTING

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Subject: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS  AT CARC PAINTING      

Unit: 22D SUPCOM  

Parent Organization: ARCENT      

Box ID: BX005154

Folder Title: CARC  ISSUES                                                                                    

Document Number:          3

Folder SEQ  #:         72








     training operation to include track operators.

         d. Vision protection should be worn when pressure washing
    vehicles.


         e. Spray painting, maintenance, supervisor and clean up
    personnel should wear their full compliment of PPE when working in
    or around paint tents or with solvent.

         i. Provide 2 separate tables a good distance apart for spray
    gun cleaning.

             1. One for cleaning with solvents and for drying.

             2. The other for fine part maintenance and re-assembly.
    To encourage compliance, no PPE should be required of soldiers
    working at the second table. It is neither practical nor feasible
    to utilize respirators and gloves during final cleaning and
    re-assembly of properly dried sprayer gun small parts.
    Requirements to do so will force noncompliance in this area and
    encourage it in other areas.

         g. Paint suits should be changed whenever integrity is lost,
    such as through a hole or tear.

         h. The durability of the paint suit is inadequate to-allow its
    use over heavy boots or as an external garment in weight bearing
    areas. Paper tape repair is usually too little and too
    late. There-fare, soft shoes should be worn under the paint suit
    and chemical boots or similar protection over the garment.

         i. In order to properly cool, during the wor-l@./rest cycle,
    painters must remove the top a+ the suit and roll it down to the
    waist. It is not practical to remove the lower half of the suit,
    including boots, during a short rest cycle. The painter LtEL@8.ily
    rests leaning forward, with his bzare forearms resting on the
    can Ici--iminated exterior of the lower half of his paint suit.     MLACti
    @,in exposure and food contamination occurs in this ftianner. in
    order to minimize this, light but strike proof waist level aprons,
    with the external side clearly marked, should be provided. There
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    to avoid contamination of siin, -food, drink, etc. from the L-;zteri,cr
    o-t: the lower paint suit during rest periods.

         i. The squad leader/quality control NCO should be rer-oo-ii.2 0
    -Rs the pivoted point of health pi-otE:-c:tion/tiazar-d management.   Th 3. E,
    soldier is siubject to the greatest exposure and stress. Moreover-.,
    he plays a vital controlling role in @@tie protection @. other
    soldiers: -from stress and contamination.     Soldiers performing wel'L
    in this role, should be recognized. rewarded and afforded ade-qLA,@t

Document 5 f:/Week-34/BX005154/CARC ISSUES/recommendations for further improvements at car:11049609135695
Control Fields 17
File Room = aug96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-34
Box ID = BX005154
Unit = 22D SUPCOM
Parent Organization = ARCENT
Folder Title = CARC ISSUES
Folder Seq # = 72
Subject = RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS AT CAR
Document Seq # = 3
Document Date =
Scan Date =
Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 04-NOV-1996