Auto Salvage Yard Occupational Safety and Health Hazards

1. Auto Salvage Yard Occupational Safety and Health Hazards Sumit K Ghosh Safety Consultant, Bureau of Safety Education and Training, Department of Labor

2. Topics • Introduction to IOSHA • Introduction to BuSET • Occupational Safety and Health Hazards at Auto Salvage Yard

3. IOSHA and BuSET • Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration (IOSHA) • Enforcement of safety and health standards • Bureau of Safety Education and Training (BuSET) • Consultations/On site visit and training

4. Indiana OSHA • Indiana - A state plan state • IOSHA enforce Federal standard 29CFR 1910. • All penalties collected go to the state general fund • Mission: To save lives, prevent injuries and ensure the safety and health of Indiana’s workers.

5. IOSHA Comprised four divisions: Industrial Hygiene Industrial Safety Construction Safety Bureau of Mines

6. IOSHA Inspections • Complaint • Referral • Fatality/Catastrophe • One fatality • 3 hospitalized injuries • General Schedule • Randomly computer generated • Emphasis Programs

7. The IOSHA Inspection • Compliance officer presents credentials • Purpose of visit: • A fat/cat, complaint, referral, or emphasis program results in a focused inspection • A general schedule inspection covers the entire worksite • Opening Conference

8. IOSHA Inspection (continued) • Walkaround • Point out hazards • Interview employees • Closing Conference • Safety Orders (Citations) • Provide abatement, and pay fine, if any • Informal conference • Contest

9. The Informal Conference • 15 working day period • An informal conference is conducted by phone or in person • May result in a settlement agreement

10. BuSET • Bureau of Safety Education and Training • Greater level of safety and health in the workplace • Employee involvement • FREE • NO FINES • EDUCATION -- prior to injuries or accidents

11. BuSET’s Activities • Safety and health consultations, on site visit of facilities in general industry and construction • Training Programs • OSHA 10-Hour courses, 30-Hour courses, short seminars • Technical Assistance • Voluntary Protection Program • INSHARP • Governor’s Workplace Safety Awards

12. Consultations • Similar to how IOSHA inspections are conducted: • Opening conference • Walkaround • Closing conference • Report of Hazards • Confidential and comprehensive written report • Abatement assistance

13. Training • Types of courses • OSHA 10-Hour courses • OSHA 20-Hour courses • Short seminars/Half a day program • Partner with companies/organizations/ entities • Written request

14. BuSET Training Programs • Accident Investigation • Cranes, Hoists, Slings • Electrical Safety • Emergency Action Plan • Hazard Recognition • How to Survive an IOSHA Inspection • Internet Based Safety • IOSHA Top-50 Cited Industrial Violations • Lockout/Tagout Safety • Machine Guarding • Powered Industrial Trucks • OSHA #300 • Safety-Related Work Practices • Workplace Violence • Power Press Training

15. Voluntary Protection Program • Indiana VPP is designed to recognize and promote safety and health management programs. • Management, labor, and IDOL establish a cooperative relationship at a workplace that has implemented a strong program.

16. INSHARP • INSHARP is another recognition program: • incentives and support to smaller, high-hazard employers • work with their employees to develop, implement and continuously improve the effectiveness of their workplace safety and health programs • also includes larger employers who are willing to develop exemplary safety and health programs and mentor others to achieve similar results.

17. Workers’ and Employers’ Rights and Responsibilities

18. What are workers’ responsibilities? • Read the OSHA poster • Follow the employer’s safety and health rules and wear or use all required gear and equipment • Follow safe work practices for your job, as directed by your employer • Report hazardous conditions to a supervisor or safety committee • Report hazardous conditions to OSHA, if employers do not fix them • Cooperate with OSHA inspectors (see OSHA’s Workers’ web page for more information)

19. What are workers’ rights? • Workers have a vital role to play in identifying and correcting problems in their workplaces, working with their employers whenever possible • Workers can complain to OSHA about workplace conditions threatening their health or safety in person, by telephone, by fax, by mail or electronically through OSHA’s web site • Section 11(c) of the OSH Act gives workers the right to seek safe and healthful conditions on the job without being disciplined or fired (see OSHA’s Workers’ web page for more information)

20. What are employers’ rightsand responsibilities? • Employers must provide a safe and healthful workplace free of recognized hazards and follow the OSHA standards • The OSH Act grants employers important rights, particularly during and after an OSHA inspection • Employers also provide training, medical examinations and recordkeeping

21. Auto Salvage Yard Safety/Health Hazards

22. Emergency Action Plan Hazard Communication Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Machine Guarding Medical/First Aid Electrical Safety Welding, Cutting, and Brazing Compressed Gases Confined Spaces Noise Auto Salvage Yard Safety/Health Hazards

23. Emergency Action Plan 29 CFR 1910.36- 1910.38 29 CFR 1910 Subpart L (Fire)

24. Emergency Action Plan • Purpose: To protect the employees from serious injury, property loss or life in the event of major disaster like • Fire • Tornado • Earthquake • Workplace violation • Bomb threat • Hazardous chemical spill

25. Emergency Action Plan Requirements • Emergency escape • Evacuation diagram • Fire prevention plan • Means of egress • Alarm system • Emergency telephone lists

26. Hazard Communication 29 CFR 1910.1200

27. Hazard Communication Standard29 CFR 1910.1200 Ensures that employers and employees know about work hazards and how to protect themselves so that the incidence of illnesses and injuries due to hazardous chemicals is reduced. Hazard Communication Program Container Labeling Material Safety Data Sheet MSDS Program Label

28. HazCom Requirements • Identify and list hazardous chemicals in workplaces • Obtain Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) and labels for each hazardous chemical • Implement a written HazCom program, including labels, MSDSs, employee training, and methods employer will use to inform employees of hazards of non-routine tasks (i.e. spills) • Train employees on chemical hazards in workplaces

29. Material Safety Data Sheets • Physical hazards, such as fire and explosion • Health hazards, such as signs of exposure • Routes of exposure • Precautions for safe handling and use • Emergency and first-aid procedures • Control measures

30. Oil Grease Gasoline/diesel fuel Antifreeze fluid Brake fluid Hydraulic fluid Battery acid Transmission fluid Mercury Solvents Lead Sodium azide in air bag detonators Chemicals in Salvage Yards

31. Bloodborne Pathogens 29 CFR 1910.1030

32. Introduction to BBP • Approximately 5.6 million workers are at risk: • human immunodeficiency virus (HIV – the virus that causes AIDS) • hepatitis B virus (HBV) • hepatitis C virus (HCV) • OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens standard prescribes safeguards to protect workers against the health hazards from exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials, and to reduce their risk from this exposure

33. Who is covered by the standard • All employees who could be “reasonably anticipated” as the result of performing their job duties to face contact with blood and other potentially infectious materials

34. How does exposure occur • Most common: needlesticks • Cuts from other contaminated sharps (scalpels, broken glass, sharp metal, etc.) • Contact of mucous membranes (for example, the eye, nose, mouth) or broken (cut or abraded) skin with contaminated blood

35. BBP Requirements • Hazard assessment • Written BBP exposure control plan • Employee involvement in selection of safer medical devices • Training

36. Personal Protective Equipment 29 CFR 1910.132-.138 • Eye, face, body, hands, feet, airways • Hazard Assessment • Equipment Selection • Training

37. Eye/Face Protection • When employees are exposed to: • Flying particles • Molten metal • Liquid chemical, gas, acid, vapors • Injurious light radiation

38. Welding Face/Eye Protection UV protection RadiationProtection

39. Protection of Feet/Toes • Steel-toe boots, metatarsals • Falling objects • Rolling objects • Objects that can pierce sole of foot • Electrical Lawnmower accident; part of steel toe is beside shoe; foot owner’s toes were only bruised.

40. Protection of Hands/Arms • Gloves appropriate for the work being done • Chemicals • Lacerations • Abrasions • Punctures • Electrical • Thermal • Arm protection

41. Head and Body Protection • Hard hat • Apron

42. Respiratory Protection • To control occupational diseases cased by contaminated air, harmful dusts, fogs, fumes, mists, gases, smocks, sprays, or vapors. • Respirator shall be provided by employers. • Written respiratory protection program by employer. • Respirator selection and evaluation. • Medical evaluation • Training • Fit test • Recordkeeping

43. Respirator Cartridges

44. PPE Training • Employer shall provide training. • Training must cover: • When PPE is necessary • What PPE is necessary • Proper wear, adjustment, care, disposal, maintenance etc.

45. Machine Guarding 29 CFR 1910.211 Subpart O

46. NO TONGUE GUARD # 2 on IOSHA’s Top-10 Hazards Cited list (2)

47. Work rest 1/8” ? (8)

48. Pulley guarding…. 1910.219(d)(1) (11)

50. Lockout/Tagout 29 CFR 1910.147 • Control of hazardous energy • Electrical • Chemical • Hydraulic • Pneumatic