Compliance operator

Source Derived in part from U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Washington, D.C., Compliance Operations Manual, OSHA-2006,1972. 

The members and their deputies are assigned by the CSV Executive Committee. For ad hoc activities, the team can be complemented with representatives from departments performing activities that support computer validation. Examples of such departments are Purchasing, IT, QA Validation, QA Compliance, Operations, R D, Engineering, and representatives from each manufacturing facility concerned. 

A two-way flow of information about risk and compliance operational throughout the corporate hierarchy... 

Hours-of-Service Compliance Operation of CMVs by drivers who are ill, fatigued, or in non-compliance with the hours-of-service (HOS) regulations. Violations of regulations pertaining to log books and the management of CMV driver fatigue. (FMCSR Parts 392 and 395)... 

RCRA incinerator regulations include adrninistrative as weU as performance standards. Administrative standards include procedures for waste analysis, inspection of equipment, monitoring, and facihty security. Steps needed to meet adrninistrative standards are outlined ia the permit apphcation performance standards are demonstrated during a trial bum. Trial bum operating conditions are included in the permit to assure ongoing compliance with the performance standards. Performance standards include destmction and removal efficiency (DRE), particulate emissions limits, products of incomplete combustion emission limits, metal emission limits, and HCl and Cl emission limits (see Exhaust CONTROL, INDUSTRIAL). 

Air Pollution. Particulates and sulfur dioxide emissions from commercial oil shale operations would require proper control technology. Compliance monitoring carried out at the Unocal Parachute Creek Project for respirable particulates, oxides of nitrogen, and sulfur dioxide from 1986 to 1990 indicate a +99% reduction in sulfur emissions at the retort and shale oil upgrading faciUties. No violations for unauthorized air emissions were issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during this time (62). 

Water Quality. AH commercial oil shale operations require substantial quantities of water. AH product water is treated for use and operations are permitted as zero-discharge facHities. In the Unocal operation, no accidental releases of surface water have occurred during the last four years of sustained operations from 1986 to 1990. The Unocal Parachute Creek Project compliance monitoring program of ground water, surface water, and process water streams have indicated no adverse water quaHty impacts and no violations of the Colorado Department of Health standards (62). 

Table 2 Hsts some of the physical, toxicity, flammabiUty, and reactivity properties of common chemicals (10,13,42,45—51). Also given are some of the quantities specified for reporting spills and for compliance with legislated requirements. The OSHA regulations require that material safety data sheets (MSDS) be developed for all process materials, so that the ha2ard data can be communicated to employees (52). Characteristics of toxicity, flammabiUty, chemical iastabiUty, reactivity and reaction energy, operatiag coaditioas, and corrosive properties of constmction materials must all be considered ia analy2iag ha2ard poteatials of chemicals and chemical operations.

In the United States, amendments to the Clean Air Act in November 1990 limited the amount of sulfur dioxide emissions that coal-based power uthities could produce. The cost of compliance incurred by the uthities was expected to be passed along to the power consumers. The U.S. Bureau of Mines estimated that the requirements to limit sulfur dioxide emissions would increase the operational cost of certain shicon producers by up to 0.02/kg (31). 

Operations capable of generating airborne beryUium particulate, such as melting, machining, welding, grinding, etc, are effectively controUed by local exhaust ventilation or other control measures. To assure a safe environment and measure compliance with the OSHA standards, employee exposures should be periodicaUy measured by prescribed air sampling and analytical methods. 

Introduction Review and audit processes are used in the chemical process industry to evaluate, examine, and verify the design of process equipment, operating procedures, and management systems. These processes assure compliance with company standards and guidelines as well as government regulations. Reviews and audits can encompass the areas of process and personnel safety, environmental and industrial hygiene protection, quality assurance, maintenance procedures, and so on. 

The responsibility for obtaining permits, required filings, and rights to review permits should be noted in the contract. Both parties are expected to be in compliance with all laws and permits applicable to the tolling operation. 

Provide an explanation of the method(s) used by the site to verify that the control device(s) are operating as designed and m compliance with all regulatory requirements. 

Is the toller aware of any activities or operations that are not in compliance with any health or safety regulations ... 

Is there a formal written contract between your company and the client, covering all commercial, compliance, safety, operational and quality requirements ... 

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