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HAZWOPER General Site Workers

HAZWOPER General Site Workers. Personnel responsible for safety/health. Personnel and alternates responsible for safety and health May vary according to job responsibilities. 1a. Safety and health hazards. Potential exposures to chemical hazards Biological and radiological hazards

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HAZWOPER General Site Workers

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  1. HAZWOPERGeneral Site Workers

  2. Personnel responsible for safety/health • Personnel and alternates responsible for safety and health • May vary according to job responsibilities 1a

  3. Safety and health hazards • Potential exposures to chemical hazards • Biological and radiological hazards • Principles of toxicology • General safety hazards 2a

  4. Personal protective equipment • Equipment selection and use • Maintenance and storage • Decontamination and disposal • Training and proper fit 3a

  5. Personal protective equipment • Donning and doffing procedures • Inspection • In-use monitoring • Program evaluation 3b

  6. Personal protective equipment • Equipment limitations • Employers must provide and require the use of PPE where engineering controls are not feasible 3c

  7. Personal protective equipment • PPE must be appropriate to the: • requirements/limitations of the site • task-specific conditions and duration • identified hazards and potential hazards 3d

  8. 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 4a

  9. 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) 4b

  10. 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 4c

  11. Work practices to minimize risk from hazards Handling and labeling drums and containers: • Ensure that safe practices are instituted • Standing on or working from drums or containers is prohibited 4d

  12. Work practices to minimize risk from hazards Handling and labeling drums and containers: • Evacuate non-essential employees from the transfer area • Use barriers to protect equipment operators from the transfer area 4e

  13. Work practices to minimize risk from hazards Handling and labeling drums and containers: • Make available a continuous means of communication • Safe removal of bulging drums or containers 4f

  14. Work practices to minimize risk from hazards • Sanitation of temporary workplaces • Privies • Chemical toilets • Recirculation toilets • Combustion toilets 4g

  15. 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 5a

  16. Medical surveillance • Medical surveillance helps assess and monitor the health and fitness of employees working with hazardous substances 6a

  17. Medical surveillance Establish a medical surveillance program when: • Employees are exposed to hazardous substances above the PEL for more than 30 days/year 6b

  18. Medical surveillance Establish a medical surveillance program when: • Employees are exposed above the published exposure levels for 30 days or more/year 6c

  19. Medical surveillance Establish a medical surveillance program when: • Workers who wear approved respirators for 30 or more days/year on site 6d

  20. Medical surveillance Establish a medical surveillance program when: • Workers are exposed to unexpected or emergency releases of hazardous wastes above exposure limits 6e

  21. Medical surveillance Establish a medical surveillance program in the following situations: • When employees are members of HAZMAT teams 6f

  22. Medical surveillance • Examinations are performed under the supervision of a licensed physician without cost to the employee, and in a reasonable time and place 6g

  23. Medical surveillance - examinations • Prior to job assignment and annually thereafter • At the termination of employment • Before reassignment to an area where medical examinations are not required 6h

  24. Medical surveillance - examinations • 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 6i

  25. Elements of site-specific safety and health plans • Decontamination procedures • Handling contaminated clothing • Showers and change rooms 7a

  26. Emergency response plans • Review 29 CFR 1910.38 • Review 29 CFR 1910.120(l) 8a

  27. Emergency response plans - required elements • Personnel roles, lines of authority, communications procedures • Pre-emergency planning • Emergency recognition and prevention 8b

  28. Emergency response plans - required elements • Emergency medical and first aid treatment • Methods or procedures for alerting onsite employees • Safe distances and places of refuge 8c

  29. Emergency response plans - required elements • Site security and control • Decontamination procedures • Critique of response and follow-up 8d

  30. Emergency response plans - required elements • PPE and emergency equipment • Evacuation routes/procedures 8e

  31. Confined space entry • Review 29 CFR 1910.146 9a

  32. Spill containment programs • Review 29 CFR 1910.38 10a

  33. 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? 10b

  34. 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? 10c

  35. Spill containment programs - checklist • Have enough employees been trained in evacuation? • Has the emergency action plan been reviewed? 10d

  36. Spill containment programs - checklist • Is the written plan kept at the workplace and made available to employees? • Will employees be handling incidental releases? 10e

  37. 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 10f

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