HAZWOPER Occasional Workers On-site

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HAZWOPEROccasional Workers On-site
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Personnel responsible for safety/health

• Personnel and alternates responsible for safety
  and health
• May vary according to job responsibilities

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Safety and health hazards

• Potential exposures to chemical hazards
• Biological and radiological hazards
• Principles of toxicology
• General safety hazards

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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• Equipment selection and use
• Maintenance and storage
• Decontamination and disposal

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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• Training and proper fit
• Donning and doffing procedures
• Inspection

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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• In-use monitoring
• Program evaluation
• Equipment limitations

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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• Employers must provide and require the use of PPE
  where engineering controls are not feasible

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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• PPE must be appropriate to the
• requirements/limitations of the site
• task-specific conditions and duration
• identified hazards and potential hazards

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Work practices to minimize risk from hazards

• Examples of safe work practices include removing
  all non-essential personnel from potential
  exposure while
• opening drums
• wetting down dusty operations
• placing employees upwind of potential hazards

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Work practices to minimize risk from hazards

• The standard covers two specific work practices
• Handling and Labeling Drums and Containers
  1910.120(j)
• Sanitation of Temporary Workplaces 1910.120(n)

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Work practices to minimize risk from hazards

• Handling and labeling drums and containers
• Ensure that drums meet required regulations
• Inform employees of appropriate hazard warnings
  of labeled drums
• Ensure that safe practices are instituted

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Work practices to minimize risk from hazards

• Handling and labeling drums and containers
• Standing on or working from drums or containers
  is prohibited
• Evacuate non-essential employees from the
  transfer area

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Work practices to minimize risk from hazards

• Handling and labeling drums and containers
• Use barriers to protect equipment operators from
  the transfer area
• Make available a continuous means of
  communication
• Safe removal of bulging drums or containers

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Minimize risk from hazards

• Sanitation of temporary workplaces
• Privies
• Chemical toilets
• Recirculation toilets
• Combustion toilets

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Engineering controls and equipment

• Engineering controls and work practices must be
  implemented to help reduce and maintain employee
  exposure at or below permissible exposure limits
• If engineering and work practice controls are not
  feasible, use appropriate PPE

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Medical surveillance

• Medical surveillance helps assess and monitor the
  health and fitness of employees working with
  hazardous substances

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Medical surveillance

• Establish a medical surveillance program in the
  following situations
• Employees are exposed to hazardous substances
  above the PEL for more than 30 days/year
• Employees are exposed above the published
  exposure levels for 30 days or more/year

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Medical surveillance

• Establish a medical surveillance program in the
  following situations
• Workers wear approved respirators for 30 or more
  days/year on site
• Workers are exposed to unexpected or emergency
  releases of hazardous wastes above exposure limits

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Medical surveillance

• Establish a medical surveillance program if
  employees are members of HAZMAT team
• Examinations are performed under the supervision
  of a licensed physician without cost to the
  employee, and in a reasonable time and place

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Medical surveillance

• Examinations are given as follows
• Prior to job assignment and annually thereafter
• At the termination of employment
• Before reassignment to an area where medical
  examinations are not required

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Medical surveillance

• Examinations are given as follows
• If the examining physician believes that a
  periodic follow-up is medically necessary
• As soon as possible for employees injured or
  becoming ill from exposure during an emergency

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Elements of site-specific safety and health plans

• Decontamination procedures
• Handling contaminated clothing
• Showers and change rooms

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Emergency response plans

• Review 29 CFR 1910.38
• Review 29 CFR 1910.120(l)

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Emergency response plans - required elements

• Personnel roles, lines of authority,
  communications procedures
• Pre-emergency planning
• Emergency recognition and prevention

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Emergency response plans - required elements

• Emergency medical and first aid treatment
• Methods or procedures for alerting onsite
  employees
• Safe distances and places of refuge

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Emergency response plans - required elements

• Site security and control
• Decontamination procedures
• Critique of response and follow-up

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Emergency response plans - required elements

• PPE and emergency equipment
• Evacuation routes/procedures

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Confined space entry

• Review 29 CFR 1910.146

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Spill containment programs

• Review 29 CFR 1910.38

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Spill containment programs - checklist

• Is the plan in writing?
• Is the written plan accessible to employees?
• Are emergency escape procedures and emergency
  escape routes assigned?

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Spill containment programs - checklist

• Are procedures established to account for all
  employees after the emergency evacuation has been
  completed?
• Has an employee alarm system been developed?

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Spill containment programs - checklist

• Have enough employees been trained in evacuation?
• Has the emergency action plan been reviewed?

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Spill containment programs - checklist

• Is the written plan kept at the workplace and
  made available to employees?
• Will employees be handling incidental releases?

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Spill containment programs

• Decontamination equipment
• Drop cloths or plastics
• Collection containers
• Absorbents, foams, chemical containment materials
• Long-handled wash brushes, paper cloth towels
• Appropriate PPE and books

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