Hazard Control Responsibilities

Many organizations with high accident or injury rates fail to outline specific hazard control responsibilities in their plans, procedures, directives, and job descriptions. The concept of responsibility relates to a person s obligation to carry out assigned duties in an efficient, effective, and safe 

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Organizations and hazard control managers must ensure the development of realistic objectives and goals. The attainment of hazard control objectives and goals will require development of written plans, procedures, policies, and directives. Develop and implement written documents that direct or require specific hazard control-related actions and behaviors. Written documents can assign hazard control responsibilities, communicate hazard control issues, and address issues such as inspections, training, and job-related processes. 

List five key hazard control responsibilities of senior organizational management. 

Hazard Control Responsibihties (4) All personnel can explain organizational hazard control expectations and performmice requirements. (3) Majority of personnel can explain hazard control expectations and performance requirements. (2) Some personnel can explain hazard control expectations and performance requirements. (1) Performance expectations including hazard control elements spelled out for evCTyone. (0) Specific hazard control responsibilities and performance expectations generally unknown. 

Specific hazard control responsibilities and performance expectations are generally unknown. 

The HASP focuses on the specific tasks down to the worksite level and identifies job- and task-based hazards, exposure-monitoring requirements, hazard controls and approaches, requirements necessary to protect workers, and, sometimes, the name of the person responsible for a certain activity. 

Operating under contract to EPA, the TCSA Hotline provides technical assistance and information about programs under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), including the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act (ASHAA), the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA), and the Lead Exposure Reduction Act. Hours 8 30 a.m. - 5 00 p.m. EST weekdays. 

Hazardous Materials Response Team(s) Establish the HazMat Group, and Provide Technical information/Assistance to Command, EMS Providers, Hospitals, and Law Enforcement. Detect/Monitor to Identify the Agent, Determine Concentrations and Ensure Proper Control Zones. Continually Reassess Control Zones, Enter the Hot Zone (with chemical personal protective clothing) to Perform Rescue, Product Information, and Reconnaissance. Product Control/Mitigation may be implemented in Conjunction with Expert Technical Guidance. Improve Hazardous Environments Ventilation, Control HVAC, Control Utilities. Implement a Technical Decontamination Corridor for Hazardous Materials Response Team (HMRT) Personnel. Coordinate and Assist with Mass Decontamination. Provide Specialized Equipment as Necessary. Assist Law Enforcement Personnel with Evidence Preservation/Collection, Decontamination. 

Hazardous Materials Response Team An organized group of trained response personnel operating under an emergency response plan and appropriate standard operating procedures, who are expected to perform work to handle and control actual or potential leaks or spills of hazardous materials requiring close approach to the material to control or stabilize an incident. 

John R. Cashman, AA, BA, MPA, has been writing about hazardous materials response and control for thirty years. He began his career covering events such as road racing and motocross in the summer, and snowmobile racing in the winter, in his off hours while an employee of the state of Vermont. He became a full-time writer of non-fiction in 1978. To date, he has over 250 magazine articles and six books to his credit. In addition, he has published Hazardous Materials Newsletter since April of 1980 (Haznews msn.com). 

Each biological agent chapter has a Response on Scene by First Responders section that includes Caution, Field First Aid, Drugs, Antibiotics, Medical Management, Fire, Personal Protection, Spill/Feak Control, Symptoms, and Vaccines. Also, spread over other chapters, will include basic duties of various first responders including Fire Departments, Emergency Medical Services, Law Enforcement, and Hazardous Materials Response Teams. 

Primary responsibility for hazards evaluation must reside with the line supervisor directly responsibile for the process. Although a variety of other groups may support and contribute to hazards evaluation, responsibility for the selection of tests, evaluation of hazards, and implementation of appropriate controls rests with the process supervisor. 

The Convention specifies the responsibilities of employers with respect to identification of any major installation within their control, notification of the competent authority of any major hazard installatioi which they have identified, establishment and maintenance of a documented system of major hazard control, preparation of safety reports including their revision, update and amendment, and reporting of maj(V industrial accidents to the competent authority. 

Nine basic construction health and safety topics are identified in the survey, namely legislations/regulations (Tl) safety management (T2) risk identification (T3) safe practices and risk reduction (T4) hazard assessment (T5) hazard control and prevention (T6) mandatory procedures, training, records, and maintenance (T7) compliance, inspection, and penalties (T8) and incorporation of construction-safety-in-design courses (T9). The extent of coverage of these topics is presented in Fig. 11.14. It can be seen that all respondents indicated that topics Tl and T7 represent no more than 20% of the covered constraction health and safety topics, while about 74% of the responses indicated that T2 and T4 represent no more than 20% of the covered topics. However, 13 % of the responses indicated that T2 and... 

The primary responsibility of the process controller is to produce conutiands to fulfill its control responsibilities. Again, the STPA hazard analysis and safety-guided design process will produce the application-specific behavioral safety requirements and constraints on controller behavior to ensure safety. But some general guidelines are also useful. 

Of particular importance to safety professionals is the determination whether your company or organization created the alleged hazard, exposed your employees to the alleged hazard, is responsible for correcting the alleged hazard, or controls the workplace. This is especially applicable for safety professionals with worksites where contract employees, subcontractors, temporary workers, loaned workers, or other workers who may not qualify as an employee are working at the company or organization s worksite. 

Providing results of evaluation assessments, including recommended adjustments and changes to hazard controls or hazard control programs, to individuals or organizations responsible for their management and implementation. 

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