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United States Indoor range Full-time employee Part-time employee NR NR 30-77 17-49 Showroom 2.7 Firing line 13.6 Midway to target 57.4 Target 90.5 Novotny etal. 1987... 

Add the number of any overtime hours as well as the hours worked by other employees (part-time, temporary, seasonal)... 

Stagger your rewards. It doesn t have to be all or nothing. If an employee partly completes the objective (e.g., participates in 25 safety observations versus 30), give some reward. 

Medical Programs. Large chemical plants have at least one hill-time physician who is at the plant five days a week and on call at all other times. Smaller plants either have part-time physicians or take injured employees to a nearby hospital or clinic by arrangement with the company compensation-insurance carrier. When part-time physicians or outside medical services are used, there is Httle opportunity for medical personnel to become familiar with plant operations or to assist in improving the health aspects of plant work. Therefore, it is essential that chemical-ha2ards manuals and procedures, which highlight symptoms and methods of treatment, be developed. A hill-time industrial physician should devote a substantial amount of time to becoming familiar with the plant, its processes, and the materials employed. Such education enables the physician to be better prepared to treat injuries and illnesses and to advise on preventive measures. 

Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) (Dowell, 1994, pp. 30-34.) The OSHA rule for Process Safety Management (PSM) of Highly Toxic Hazardous Chemicals, 29 CFR 1910.119, part (e), reqmres an initial PHA and an update every five years for processes that handle listed chemicals or contain over 10,000 lb (4356 kg) of flammable material. The PHA must be done by a team, must include employees such as operators and mechanics, and must have at least one person skilled in the methodology employed. Suggested methodologies from Process Safety Management are listed in Table 26-1. 

An essential part of the on-site visit is the physical inspection of the toller facility—the walk-through. It offers the opportunity to confirm interview responses, observe work practices, interview employees, and note general housekeeping, soil contamination and safety issues. 

Equivalent full-time employees a part-time employee is counted as half a person. 

Most of these part-time employees are full-time employees of the parent organization of the air pollution control agency, but dev ote as much of their time to the work of the air pollution control agency as required. 

Process Safety Management (PSM), under OSHA, attempts to protect employees exposed to toxicity, tire, or explosion. Many plants employing chemical engineers must do a PSM consisting of fourteen parts. Some of the parts are greatly facilitated if the team includes chemical engineers. 

An auxiliary facility is one that supports another facility s activities (e.g., research and deveiopment iaboratories, warehouses, storage facilities, and waste-treatment facilities). An auxiliary facility can take on the SIC code of another covered facility if its primary function is to service that other covered facility s operations. Thus, a separate warehouse facility (i.e., one not located within the physical boundries of a covered facility) may become a covered facility because it services a facility in SIC codes 20-39. Auxiliary facilities that are in SIC codes 20-39 are required to report it they meet the employee criterion and chemical thresholds for manufacture, process, or use. Auxiliary establishments that are part of a multi-establishment facility must be factored into threshold determinations for the facility as a whole. 

All requirements of Part 1910 and Part 1926 of Title 29 of the Code of Eederal Regulations apply pursuant to their terms to hazardous waste and emergeney response operations whether eovered by this seetion or not. If there is a eonfliet or overlap, the provision more proteetive of employee safety and health shall apply without regard to 29 CER 1910.5... 

The safety alert concept may also have a downside. Let s say that after an incident, the company management agrees that parts of the investigation and incident circumstances should be communicated to all workers in the company. After all, if we communicate the existence of a potential danger, we should be able to eliminate the injury in the future. To some, this is just common sense and can be considered a no brainer. However, at a later date, should another employee of that same company suffer a similar injury, what do you think the outcome might be The injured worker (or his lawyer) might be able to prove that the company was negligent because it knew of the problem (as shown in the safety alert) but failed to adequately address it. 

Can reaching over moving machinery parts or materials injure the employee ... 

The use of proper PPE is an integral part of many jobs when dealing with hazardous waste. OSHA standard 1910.132 of 1998 requires an assessment be eondueted to determine the appropriate PPE for eyes, faee, head, and extremities whenever hazards eneountered are eapable of eausing injury or impairment in the funetion of any part of the body through absorption, inhalation, or physieal eontaet. Aeeording to the PPE standard, it is the employer s responsibility to determine if hazards are present (or likely to be present). If the employer determines that hazards are present, the employer should ehoose the types of PPE that will proteet affeeted employees from the hazards identified in the hazard assessment [1]. 

Now eomes the hard part of the training. The employer should verify training through a written proeess eertifying that eaeh employee has reeeived and understood the required instruetion. The eertifieation should doeument the name of the employee trained, the date of the training, and the subjeet of the training. 

Compliance with the written program can be verified during the walkaround by personal observation and employee interviews. If respirators are required to be worn in the workplace or respirators other than dust masks are worn by voluntary users, a written program is required. An overexposure is not required to cite. Discrepancies between the written program and implemented work practices at the worksite should be cited. Use of a elastomeric or supplied-air respirator, even when voluntary on the part of the employee, will require the employer to include all elements in a written program that will make sure that there is proper use of these respirators so that they do not create a hazard. 

Unless employers ean demonstrate that their operation does not involve employee exposure or the reasonable possibility for employee exposure to safety or health hazards, they should eomply with the standard. To determine if your partieular situation is eovered by the emergeney response provisions of the standard, examine the tasks of your workers to determine if they will be assigned a role or funetion as part of a response to a release of hazardous waste [2]. 

Does the organizational part of the SAHP establish a speeifie ehain of eommand and speeify responsibilities of supervisors and employees [OSHA Referenee. 120(b)(2)(i)]... 

Has the employer implemented the use of engineering controls, work practices, and personal protective equipment to reduce and maintain employee exposure to or below published exposure levels for hazardous substances and health hazards not regulated by 29 CFR Part 1910, Subparts G and Z (e.g., heat stress, lifting hazards) [OSHA Reference. 120(g)(2)]... 

An explosion and fire at an Albright Wilson Americas phosphorus chemicals plant in Charleston, SC (June 17, 1991) killed six and injured 33. The damaged unit lost part of its walls and roof Eight other units on the 200 employee site, sustained minor or no damage, but were shutdown for a few days. At the time of the accident, plant workers were mixing chemicals in the No. 2 reactor in the special products unit when an explosion and fire occurred. Five of the people killed were contract employees not directly involved with the reactor, but were installing insulation nearby. 

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