W EEKLY EDITION JULY 26, 2017
Question of the Week:
What is OSHA's definition of "sanitary"? ...continued
By Karleen Kos, PSAI Executive Director
The ANSI Z4.3 - 1995 standard has undergone two revisions since OSHA provided the guidance above. In
the current version, important terms are now defined as follows in ANSI/PSAI Z4.3 - 2016:
Sanitary condition : […] that physical condition of working quarters which will tend to prevent
the incidence and spread of disease.
Sanitize : To make free from dirt, infection, disease, etc., by cleaning it. To make something
sanitary.
Although neither O S H A nor MHSA has yet had
occasion to quote from the updated standard Z4.3,
we are working t oward adoption of these
definitions. Copies of the standard are free to
Members of the PSAI by signing in to the Member
Portal on the PSAI website, and they are available to
nonmembers for $35 in a pdf.
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