Contract personnel

Requirement for provision of on-the-job training in any new or modified job affecting quality that includes supplier and contract personnel... 

Regardless of the approach your company selects, what s important is the assurance that contract personnel, by whatever means, are as conversant as your own employees with those aspects of your PSM system with which they interact. For this reason, you may wish to consider meeting with your key contractors to discuss the system and how it may affect their persoimel. As part of this discussion, you will want to review whatever training the contractor provides to determine if it meets your needs and is appropriate for the PSM system. If the system requires additional contractor training, you can then work out (either as a global policy or on a case-by-case basis) how best to provide it. 

The need for the use of safety procedures by contract personnel will require additonal training and higher priorities in procedural reviews. 

This applies to contract personnel as well as employees. How to communicate chemical reactivity hazards is not a trivial matter, especially when contractors are involved. Confidentiality agreements may need to be put into place, and issues may need to be addressed on a case by case basis. Communication with contract personnel and broader outsourced manufacturing issues are addressed by Early (1996) and CCPS (2000). 

Once the contract personnel were safely off pad, the operator moved to a safe observation and contacted the PCC operator to order a process shutdown. The PCC operator acknowledged and replied that the shutdown signal had been sent. At approximately 1 28 p.m. an explosion occurred in the E l module and soon after, fire was noted coming from the adjacent process modules. 

Schedule interviews at a convenient time for each witness. Make appointments with witnesses through the appropriate charmels, such as with union and contract personnel. Select a schedule that minimizes contact between witnesses to minimize the sharing of stories between witnesses. For example, schedule each initial interview for 30 minutes. Allow 30 minutes between interviews to complete the documentation of the last interview and prepare for the next one. This gap minimizes contact between witnesses. Adjust the schedule and interview list based on data as they appear. 

During a normal night shift at a process plant, a temporary water treatment unit, operated by contract personnel, overheated and released hot, low pH water to one of the plant s outfalls, which ultimately resulted in fish being killed in the local river. The overheating occurred when a firewater hose, providing cooling water to the temporary water treatment unit, ruptured. The plant was provided with an automatic trip that apparently failed to work, and an alarm to which the operator did not respond. 

Where in the plant are the contract personnel allowed to go for breaks or lunch ... 

Before undertaking any work, assessors and inspectors (including contracted personnel) should sign a declaration of interest. If, based on their declaration of interest, it is deemed appropriate for them to undertake the work specified, they agree to carry out their functions exclusively for the agency. They should confirm that the information disclosed by them in the declaration of interest is correct, that no situation of real, potential or apparent conflict of interest is known to them and that they have no financial or other interest in, and/or relationship with a party which ... 

Employers must develop a screening process to ensure that they hire only contractors who can accomplish desired jobs without compromising process and employee safety. In the past, contractors w ere a weak link in the safety process. As outsourcing increased with the workforce reduction, contracting became a very crucial issue. Contract personnel must be thoroughly familiar with the site safety policy and should be trained in the key safety aspects of the process unit equipment and chemicals used by the unit. Site personnel are... 

Hiring new personnel or temporarily contracting personnel to replace skills being lost... 

Like any other contract service, process safety requires clear reporting relationships. Process safety also requires the involvement of contract personnel. This is particularly true for design engineering... 

Contract personnel for issue of sulfur, water treatment, general housekeeping, and for annual shutdown jobs. 

Maintenance activities at the HCF are conducted in accordance with either a work control instruction, for maintenance performed by HCF personnel, or the SNL/NM Site Maintenance Plan, for maintenance performed by FOE personnel. These documents govern the preparation of maintenance work packages, in addition, the MIP addresses supenrision of maintenance activities, review of completed work requests, temporary repaii, and control of contract personnel. 

Lake), and to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers safety professionals at their conference in Bethesda. In 1990, PET was included in courses presented to DOE-contracted personnel at the Nevada Test Site. 

Contractors should train their personnel in the work practices necessary to perform their jobs in a safe and environmentally sound manner. The training provided to contract personnel should include applicable site-specific safety and environmental procedures and rules pertaining to the facility and the applicable provisions of emergency action plans. This paragraph applies to contractors performing operating duties, maintenance or repair, turnaround, major renovation, or specialty work at the facility. 

To accomplish this, you must ensure that your employees and contract personnel engaged in well control or production safety operations understand and can properly perform their duties. 

Have all contract personnel been adequately trained in appropriate chemical awareness, maintenance and operating activities and evacuation procedures ... 

Chemical control treatment should be apphed after building hours with the exception of emergency situations. All contract personnel will be required to possess a valid pest-control applicators license, and such license must be on file in the building management office. 

How will you handle contract personnel Many of today s companies make ongoing use of contract personnel. If your organization uses them, your design team should consider whether to involve them. The options for doing so include the following ... 

As a rule, if you have contract personnel onsite on an ongoing basis, you should find a way to involve them at an appropriate level. Probably your best option is to observe them, then provide feedback as you would any other employee. In some cases you may want to be more aggressive with contract personnel than with your own employees. For example, you might be less likely to announce observations in advance, and you may not give these employees the right to opt out of observations. In some cases you may also want to provide the feedback to the contractor employees supervisor. 

It has been observed that many fishing vessels call into a floating dock once a year to carry out a complete inspection/repair/overhaul of equipment on board. These repairs and overhauls are normally carried out by yard workers or specially contracted personnel. These vessels also come in for dry-docking every 3 to 5 years (depending on the condition of the vessel) to carry out repairs on seawater valves, replacement of hull anodes, inspection of propeller, tail shaft and rudder and any other fitting which lies beneath the water line. 

XYZ is required in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.1200 to inform XYZ and contractor personnel that work centers within XYZ have hazardous chemicals on-site. XYZ and contract personnel may be exposed to these hazardous chemicals while working at XYZ work centers. A written Hazard Communication Program has been developed to inform person-... 

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