Jack,
The appropriate Standard is the ANSI/ISEA Z358.1-2009 American Natio
nal Standard for Emergency Eyewash and Shower Equipment, wh
ich for plumbed emergency showers and eyewashes specifies weekly testing an
d Appendix B7 describes the intent and goal of such testing. 
; This Standard does not specify that emergency shower/eyewash&nbs
p;stations have tags indicating the dates of testing. In the ISEA
Revision Committee, my recollection is that the consensus
was that recordkeeping of testing was outside the scope of this Standard,
which is a performance standard for the equipment. There are some
other provisions for non-plumbed emergency showers and eyewashes.
Copies of the Standard can be obtained from:
International Safety Equipment Association
ATTN: Cristine Z. Fargo
1901 North Moore Street
Arlington, VA 22209-1763
(307) 525-1695
www.safetyequipment.org
Note that while I was a voting member of the Revision Committee, I receiv
e no compensation from ISEA. The revision committee did recommend t
hat ISEA contact OSHA with a request to include by reference this Standard
into OSHA regulations. I do not know what the status of this is,
but usually OSHA's mill grinds very slowly.
Alan
Alan H. Hall, M.D.
TCMTS, Inc.
Laramie, WY
Colorado School of Public Healh
Denver, CO
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> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:14:46 -0500
> From: novodoff**At_Symbol_Here**UM
ICH.EDU
> Subject: [DCHAS-L] Safety showers and eyewashes
>
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**LIST.UVM.EDU
>
> I am doing some safety inspe
ctions for a start up private laboratory.
> There is no documentat
ion on the individual safety eywash/showers
> indicating when they
were last inspected. The building facilitty
> manager insists he
has the documantation on his computer but has
> steadfastly refuse
d to share this information when a safety inspection
> is performe
d. Is there any documentation that requires emergency
> eyewash/sh
ower stations to have tags indicating their last inspection?
> Any
information would be helpful. I suspect that the inspections
> oc
cur on a random basis, if at all. Thanks
>
> Jack Novodo
ff, PhD
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