Guidelines to ensure your building complies with osh regulations

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Guidelines to ensure your building complies with
osh regulations

• Tim Fisher, OSHA Services, LLC

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WHAT ROLE DO YOU PLAY?

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• M
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• EADER
• OTIVATOR
• EGOTIATOR
• PERATOR
• LANNER
• UALITY CONTROL
• ISK MANAGER

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WHAT ROLE DO YOU PLAY?
LEADER MOTIVATOR NEGOTIATOR OPERATOR PLANNER QUALI
TY CONTROL RISK MANAGER
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WHAT ROLE DO YOU PLAY?RISK MANAGER

• the risks to the safety and health of his
  employees to which they are exposed while they
  are at work
• the risks to the safety and health of persons not
  in his employment arising out of or in connection
  with the environmental impact of his undertaking
• The risks to the safety and health of the general
  public

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WHAT ROLE DO YOU PLAY?

• LEADER
• MOTIVATOR
• NEGOTIATOR
• OPERATOR
• PLANNER
• QUALITY CONTROL
• RISK MANAGER

• Leads the way in Risk Assessment

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GENERAL DUTY CLAUSE

• It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure,
  so far as is reasonably practicable, the safety,
  health and welfare at work of all his employees.
• Part II, Section 6(1)

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IMPLICATIONS

• You must prove that you have done all you could
  have done. Part XIV, Section 82A
• If your failure is committed with the consent,
  connivance or acquiescence of, or to have been
  facilitated by neglect by you, you can be held
  personally liable. Part XIV, Section 83(3)

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RISK ASSESSMENT

• Every employer shall make a suitable and
  sufficient annual assessment
• Suitable -- the assessment technique chosen
  should be appropriate to the assessment being
  made.
• Sufficient -- the assessment is adequate to
  show that risks are as low as reasonably
  practicable (ALARP), and does not require further
  elaboration.

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WHAT ROLE DO YOU PLAY?

• LEADER
• MOTIVATOR
• NEGOTIATOR
• OPERATOR
• PLANNER
• QUALITY CONTROL
• RISK MANAGER

• Ensure internal and external client satisfaction
• People PM Program

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WHAT ROLE DO YOU PLAY?

• LEADER
• MOTIVATOR
• NEGOTIATOR
• OPERATOR
• PLANNER
• QUALITY CONTROL
• RISK MANAGER

• Negotiates leases and contracts with vendors and
  suppliers

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LEASES Owner/Occupier
Except where otherwise provided by the terms of
the agreement between the owner and the occupier
the owner shall be responsibleprovisionsrelating
to any sanitary conveniences, lifts, lifting
machines, floors, passages, stairs, walls, means
of escape and any other machinery, thing or part
of premises used in common by more than one
tenant.
57(4)
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CONTRACTS WITH VENDORS AND SUPPLIERSContractor
Safety

• Ensure that the technology, machinery, plant,
  equipment or material is safe and without risks
  to health when properly used Part II, Section
  13(1)(a)
• It shall be the duty of any person who erects or
  installs any machinery, plant, equipment or
  component thereof that nothing makes it unsafe
  or exposes persons to risks to their safety or
  health when properly used. Part II, Section
  13(3)

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CONTRACTS WITH VENDORS AND SUPPLIERSContractor
Safety

• Where a person designs, manufactures, imports or
  supplies any technology, machinery, plant,
  equipment or material on the basis of a written
  undertaking by other to take specified steps
  sufficient to ensure that the article will be
  safe and without risks to health when properly
  used, the undertaking shall have the effect of
  relieving the first mentioned person from the
  duty imposed
• Part II, Section 13(6)

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WHAT ROLE DO YOU PLAY?

• LEADER
• MOTIVATOR
• NEGOTIATOR
• OPERATOR
• PLANNER
• QUALITY CONTROL
• RISK MANAGER

• Controls the day to day
• Preventive Maintenance Program

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CONTROLLING DAY TO DAY

• the provision and maintenance of plant and
  systems of work that are, so far as is reasonably
  practicable, safe and without risks to health
• Part II, Section 6(2)(a)

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CONTROLLING THE DAY TO DAY

• so far as is reasonably practicable as regards
  any place of work under the employers control,
  the maintenance of it in a condition that is
  safe and without risks to health and the
  provision and maintenance of means of access to
  and egress from it that are safe and without such
  risks.
• Part II, Section 6(2)(e)

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CONTROLLING THE DAY TO DAY

• the provision and maintenance of a working
  environment for his employees that is, so far as
  is reasonably practicable, safe, without risks to
  health, and adequate as regards amenities and
  arrangements for their welfare at work Part
  II, Section 6(2)(f)

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WHAT ROLE DO YOU PLAY?

• LEADER
• MOTIVATOR
• NEGOTIATOR
• OPERATOR
• PLANNER
• QUALITY CONTROL
• RISK MANAGER

• You set the standards

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SETTING THE STANDARDS

• The evaluation of risk should involve both a
  qualitative and quantitative approach.
• Where relevant good or best practice is clear,
  the balance should be in favour of qualitative
  arguments to show that the risks have been
  properly controlled.
• Where relevant good or best practice is less
  clear, appropriate support from quantitative
  arguments will be necessary.

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SETTING THE STANDARD

• Cleanliness Part VI, Section 31
• All places of employment will be clean, orderly
  and in a sanitary condition 
• Workrooms clean and dry
• Provide platforms, mats, or other dry standing
  places for wet processes

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SETTING THE STANDARD

• In every part of an industrial establishment
  where employees are working or passing, there
  shall be provided and maintained sufficient and
  suitable LIGHTING, natural or artificial, or
  both, in accordance with approved standards.
• Part VI, Section 33(1)

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STANDARDS SETTING ORGANIZATIONS

• ANSI American National Standards Institute
• ASHRAE American Society of Heating,
  Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
• ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
• IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
• IESNA Illuminating Engineering Society of North
  America
• ISO International Standards Organization
• NEMA National Electrical Manufacturers
  Association

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LIGHTING STANDARDS
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SETTING THE STANDARD

• Every occupier of an industrial establishment
  that is not ventilated by a functioning
  air-conditioning system shall secure and maintain
  therein adequate and suitable ventilation by the
  circulation of fresh air. Part VI,
  Section 36

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STANDARDS SETTING ORGANIZATIONS

• International Mechanical Code (IMC)
• The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating
  and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
• ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2004, Ventilation for
  Acceptable Indoor Air Quality.

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IAQ STANDARDS

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WHAT ROLE DO YOU PLAY?

• LEADER
• MOTIVATOR
• NEGOTIATOR
• OPERATOR
• PLANNER
• QUALITY CONTROL
• RISK MANAGER

IS YOU!
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THANK YOU!

• Tim Fisher, OSHA Services, LLC