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29 CFR 1910.134(k): This paragraph requires the employer to provide effective training to employees who are required to use respirators. The training must be comprehensive, understandable, and recur annually, and more often if necessary. This paragraph also requires the employer to provide the basic information on respirators in Appendix D of this section to employees who wear respirators when not required by this section or by the employer to do so. On or about August 23, 2024, the employer did not conduct employee respirator training for employees who assist residents infected with a communicable disease and have to wear tight fitting respirators including Benehal N95 Particulate Respirators. The employer requires employees to wear a respirator when entering rooms that house the residents who tested positive with a communicable disease including but not limited to SARS?CoV?2 or COVID-19.