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- For your safety, Dye Room use is by appointment only.
- We can discuss if any training is needed for use of supplies and equipment
- You must have been fit tested for a respirator in order to dye or use toxic products
- Always keep the room locked
- Please clean up before you leave. Thank you.
Respirator Fit Testing
- Normally, annual fit testing is required and a medical questionnaire must be filled out every 3 years.
- Due to Covid-19, the Occupational Health Program is not fit testing anyone unless they have a critical need to use a respirator daily. We do not fall into that category
- They request any task requiring use of a respirator be passed on to someone who has been fit tested in lieu of fit testing new employees for occasional respirator use.
- Please try to use nontoxic alternatives whenever possible to avoid the need for a respirator. If you have any questions, feel free to email Tanya (tolalde@austin.utexas.edu)
- If you absolutely need to use a respirator and have not been fit tested, please email Tanya and she can try to get you a fit test appointment.
Graduate and Undergraduate Student Employees
- The Costume Shop will arrange for medical assessments and fit testing through UT’s Occupational Health Program.
- Medical evaluations are reassessed every 3 years and fit testing is repeated annually. See “Respirator Medical Assessment and Fit Testing” document for more info.
- Graduate student employees are highly advised to purchase their own respirators and cartridges
- Undergraduate student employees required to have respirators will have respirators and cartridges supplied by the department