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Minimum Criteria for Monitoring 29 CFR 1910.1017 section (d) Program Directive 200-35 (d) Monitoring (1) A program of initial monitoring and measurement shall be undertaken in each establishment to determine if there is any employee exposed, without regard to the use of respirators, in excess of the action level. Program Directive ZOO-35 (a) The. standard requires that individual employee exposure levels bz determined, elective April 1, 1975. Any monitoring program will bz acceptable as long as it gives valid determinations ol employee exposures and includes all employees, without regard to the a6e o& respirators. ==" {b) The selection and number o employee* necessary for personnel............. monitoring to determine i& any employee is being exposed, will be dependent upon, but not limited to, the number o employees per shi{t, their, duties, the area and operation, and the work practices in force. The exposure oj each, employee must be represented, even though he man not~be personally/ monitored. CFR 1910.1017 (d) (2) Where a determination conducted under paragraph (d) (1) of this section shows any employee exposures, without regard to the use of respirators, in excess of the action level, a program for determining exposures for each employee shall be established. Such a program: (i) Shall be repeated at least monthly where any employee is exposed without regard to the use of respirators, in excess of the permissible exposure limit. (ii) Shall be repeated not less than quarterly where any employee is xposed, without regard to the use of respirators; in excess of the action 1 vel. Program Directive ZOO-35 (a) This means that monitoring must be repeated at least monthly where any employee is exposed in excess o{ 1 ppm; quarterly when exposure xs in excess o{ 0.5 ppm. Any employee includes all employees, without regard to the use o{ respirators. (iii) May be discontinued for any employee only when at least- two consecutiv monitoring determinations, made not less than 5 working days apart, show exposures for that employee at or below the action level. OCC 5780