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Training comes in two primary forms orientation and job training. The purpose of orientation training is to welcome new employees, present a positive first impression, provide information that will permit them to setde into their new responsibilities, and establish early expectations of performance and behav-... 

The Flixborough nylon plant accident in the UK (1974) was caused by an open-air explosion of a flammable gas released into the air. It killed the 28 plant employees present and caused extensive property damage in the surrounding area. The failure to perform a full technical assessment of a modification was given as the main cause of the event. The Seveso pesticide plant accident in Italy (1976) is well known for the dangerous release of dioxin due to poor plant safety features and to the underestimation of the possibility of a runaway reaction. The Bhopal incident in India (1984), at another pesticide plant, killed an estimated 4000 (although the total number is still unknown). This disaster was attributed to too large an inventory of toxic substances and to very poor staff attention to the operability of safety features. 

Employees presently with the company or former drivers of the company will not be considered as referred drivers. 

Special medical surveillance by a physician shall be instituted within 24 hours for employees present in the potentially affected area at the time of the emergency. A report of the medical surveillance, and any treatment, shall be included in the incident report. 

In self-medication, the application of Echinacea preparations is very often started when patients experience the very first symptoms of a common cold. The objective of this early treatment is either to prevent that the common cold symptoms fully develop (some form of prevention) or to decrease the duration and the severity of the illness (in the sense of a typical treatment). In this early stage patients rarely consult a physician consequently, it is not easy to study this type of use. Only recently a first study investigating this early treatment has been published [20]. The employees of a Swedish industrial plant were informed of the study and asked to consult the company physician in the case of the very first symptoms of a common cold. A total of 120 employees presenting during the recruitment period were then randomized to receive, in a double-blind manner, the pressed juice of Echinacea... 

Phenol fumes are irritating to the eyes, nose, and skin. According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), exposure to phenol should be controUed so that no employees are exposed to phenol concentrations >20 mg/m, which is a time-weighted average concentration for up to a 10-h work day, 40-h work week. Phenol is very toxic to fish and has a nearly unique property of tainting the taste of fish if present in marine... 

Catastrophic release Under OS HA PSM and EPA RMP, it means a major uncontrolled emission, fire, or explosion, involving one or more highly hazardous chemical substances (per OSHA) or regulated substances (per EPA) that presents serious danger to employees in the workplace (per OSHA) or imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and the environment (per EPA). 

It is sincerely hoped that the information presented in this document will lead to an even more impressive record for the entire industry however, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, its consultants, CCPS Subcommittee members, their employers, their employers officers and directors, and AntiEntropics, Incorporated and its employees disclaim making or giving any warranties or representations, express or implied, including with respect to fitness, intended purpose, use or merchantability and/or correctness or accuracy of the content of the information presented in this document. As between (1) Anerican Institute of Chemical Engineers, its consultants, CCPS Subcommittee members, their employers, their employers officers and directors, and AntiEntropics, Incorporated and its employees and (2) the user of this document, the user accepts any legal liability or responsibility whatsoever for the consequence of its use or misuse. 

Beeause the diisoeyanate is used in exeess, there is usually free monomer present. Isoeyanates are hazardous materials particularly upon inhalation and skin contact. Chronic exposure ean lead to sensitization. The adhesives must therefore be used with proper ventilation and should not come in eontact with the skin in the unreaeted state. Vapor monitoring badges for employees and periodie real time vapor monitoring around process equipment is reeommended. 

Any chemical which presents a physical hazard or a health hazard to employees. 

If hazards are still present, try to reduce the necessity for performing the job or the frequency of performing it. Go over the recommendations with all employees performing the job. Their ideas about the hazards and proposed recommendations are valuable. Be sure that they understand what they are required to do and the reasons for the changes in the job procedures. 

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]. 

To maintain adeqnate site control, the site safety and health snpervi-sor mnst have the anthority to enforce the SSAHP s rnles on any individ-nal present at the site, whether that individnal is an employee or an ontside contractor. If there is more than one SSAHP (i.e., if each contractor develops its own), OSHA considers it essential that the plans he integrated and enforced consistently to ensnre that on-site personnel have a clear nnder-standing of safety and health expectations, lines of anthority, and emergency response actions. 

Similarly, the Site B contractor s SSAHP provided corporate policy and procedures for permit-required confined space entry but lacked the site-specific detail necessary to describe the application of the corporate policy to procedures at the site. For example, the SSAHP did not identify specific components of the thermal treatment unit that presented confined space hazards, nor did it describe the specific circumstances or procedures that would require employee entry into these areas. In addition, the plan stated that the contractor would maintain an onsite employee confined space rescue team, but did not identify the members of this team. The SSAHP for Site F also contained a generic confined space entry program but did not identify the specific location of confined space hazards present at the site. 

Do employees appear to be aware of safety, health, and other hazards present on site [OSHA Reference, 120(e)(2)(ii)]... 

Another variation you may encounter is one of style some companies circulate management systems information in a veiy terse, concise manner, keeping strictly to the procedures required. Others present this information in a broader context, providing employees with an understanding of the "why" as well as the "what."... 

For these reasons, in addition to executive communications, you should consider the advantages of other internal communications methods to gain participants buy-in. The installation process presents a natural opportunity in fact, employee communications should be a priority as you begin the roll-out. 

Provide support materials to key people. Prepare a briefing document, drawn from the integration proposal and executive summary, that executives, colleagues, and staff can use in responding to internal or external enquiries or in crafting speeches and other presentations. This document is often framed in terms of providing answers to questions that employees or other interested parties may ask. Some sample questions and answers are provided at the end of this chapter. 

Chemical and common names of all ingredients determined to be healtli liazards mid comprising less than 1 percent (0.1 percent for carcinogens) of tlie mi.xlure must also be listed if they can still exceed an established OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) or tlic ACGIH Threshold Limit Value (TLV) or present a health risk to exposed employees in tlicsc concentrations. The next chapter will address PELs and TLVs in further detail. 

For a molder to control secrecy concerning proprietary information, the first approach is to keep it as a personal secret. If people have to be exposed to it, such as present or new employees, visitors, and customers since there exists a need to know, those people should sign a nondisclosure agreement. This agreement could set up problems since a person could already be familiar with the so-called secret. 

One of the most studied of the polyaromatic hydro-carbone (PAH) is benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), which is present in coal tar at coke oven plants. The BaP content of coal tar is between 0.1% and 1 % and it contributes to the serious potential health effects on employees exposed to coke oven emissions. The largest sources of BaP are open burning and home heating with wood and coal. The latter alone contributes 40 percent of all the BaP released each year in the USA. 

The fact that our daily lives are so dependent on the chemical industry does not appear to be widely recognized, even by those working in the chemical industry. And so, as companies are forced in a world economy to become more productive and more quality conscious, as well as having a greater concern for the environment, it becomes essential that their present and future employees understand the basic concepts upon which the chemical industry (indeed, our modern existence) is based. This book is designed to aid in that understanding by reviewing the important aspects of industrial chemistry in a way that can be understood even by those who have not taken any formal chemistry courses. 

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