Hazards site issues

The CCPS publication Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, Second Edition (Ref. 3) provides considerable information on various hazard evaluation techniques that may be employed. Evaluating hazards affecting buildings in process plants may be performed as part of a review focused specifically on the siting issue or as part of a more comprehensive review intended to identify and evaluate all facility hazards. 

Healthcare Construction Site Hazardous Waste Issues... 

Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response. In response to an EPA mandate in SARA, Ha2ardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) regulations were issued. These address emergency responders, training of those working at Superfund sites, and cleanup operations. 

The primary issue is to prevent groundwater from becoming radioactively contaminated. Thus, the property of concern of the long-lived radioactive species is their solubility in water. The long-lived actinides such as plutonium are metallic and insoluble even if water were to penetrate into the repository. Certain fission-product isotopes such as iodine-129 and technicium-99 are soluble, however, and therefore represent the principal although very low level hazard. Studies of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, tentatively chosen as the site for the spent fuel and high level waste repository, are underway (44). 

Eor example, the federal Oeeupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulates asbestos, lead, and other hazardous substanees. It would be very diffieult to provide the reader with every regulatory ageney that may have jurisdietion over hazardous materials. It is not our intent to provide the reader with every detail. However, the information offered in this book ean aid the reader in general eompli-anee issues and assist in planning for safety. This, in the long run, will help to improve on-site safety performanee. 

If the PPE is personal in nature and can be used by the employee off the job, the payment issue may be left up to labor and management. Examples cited in the memorandum include safety shoes, nonspecialty safety glasses, and cold-weather gear. OSHA makes it clear that, If shoes and cold-weather gear is subject to contamination of hazardous substances and cannot be safely worn off-site it should be paid for by the employer. ... 

This paper focuses on issues which are relevant to all hazardous waste site investigations, remedial actions, and ongoing surveillance of cleaned sites. Some questions and concerns of field engineers and scientists are ... 

The HAZWOPER was developed to protect the health and safety of workers engaged in operations at hazardous waste sites, hazardous waste treatment facilities, and emergency response locations. HAZWOPER covers issues such as training, medical surveillance, and maximum exposure limits. 

Pivetz, B. E., Ground Water Issue. Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soil and Ground Water at Hazardous Waste Sites, EPA/540/S-01/500, Superfund Technology Support Center for Ground Water, OK, 2001. 

Among the issue with mobile risk sources are, for example, transport of high volumes of hazardous substances through densely populated areas, parking the tanker vehicles at improper sites, passage of the tanker vehicles through the spots with the highest occurrence of car accidents etc. 

The clean-out operation, which had not been done in the previous 30 years, was not subjected to a hazard assessment to devise a safe system of work, and there were defects in the planning of and permit-to-work system of the operation. The task was largely handled locally with minimal reference to senior management and with lack of formal procedures, although such procedures existed for cleaning other still bases on the site. The permits were issued by a team leader who had not worked on the Meissner plant for 10 years prior to his appointment on September 7. At 10 15 a.m., he made out a permit for a fitter to remove the manlid. The fitter signed on about 11 10 a.m. and shortly after went to lunch. Operatives who were standing by offered to remove the manlid and the same team leader made out a permit for them to do so. When the fitter returned from lunch, it was realized that the still base inlet had not been isolated and a further permit was issued for this to be done. 

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