Outside Personnel

When outside servicing personnel are involved in activities covered by this procedure, the outside employer shall be informed about this procedure and shall inform the safety manager of its lockout or tagout procedure. If such personnel fail to foUow the procedure, they must be instructed to follow it. Subsequent failure to follow this procedure should be enforced by stem measures, up to and including removal of the personnel from the facility. 

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As with most of a company s information where proprietary, trade secrets, or a facilities security may be involved, process hazard analysis reports may be considered confidential information. Release outside the company should be discussed with the legal staff or by the contractor agreements made with outside personnel participating in the study. A suitable distinction should be applied to the cover of any review produced documents whenever the confidentiality requirement is required. 

Site evacuation routes and other alternative routes should be made available for reaching any site of emergency from inside and outside. Personnel accounting, procedure, assembly areas, safety zones, and exits should be known to everyone. 

There are a total of five panel operators who manage the central refinery control room. Outside personnel carry out solely supervisory tasks. 

Describes the resources and time required to implement the program if using outside personnel and establishes the fees for pharmacists or others. 

Badging—Process of providing outside personnel with identification that gives them access to the designated facilities of the organization requesting assistance. 

The owner must coordinate activities when both inside and outside personnel are involved. The contractor has the obligation to... 

Whenever outside personnel are to be engaged in activities covered by the scope and application of the lockout/tagout procedure, the utility and the outside contractor shall inform each other of their respective lockout or tagout procedures. The utility shall ensure that their employees understand and comply with the restrictions and prohibitions of the outside contractor s energy control program. 

If a permanent technician is assigned to the facility, he or she may be made responsible for its operation and for the use of the facility by outside personnel. Such workers should learn how to use the equipment, particularly the biological safety cabinet. Copies of a pamphlet, such as Effective Use of the Biological Safety Cabinet, obtainable from the Division of Safety, U.S. National Institutes of Health, should be kept for reference and be given to cabinet users see also Chapter 9. Facility policy also should dictate how radioactive materials may be used in the facility. 

Are outside personnel exempt from wearing safety glasses Are they exempt from wearing hard hats and steel-toed shoes in construction areas From following speed limits posted on plant property If so, you have probably heard one of your employees complain, "If they don t follow safe work practices, why should we "... 

Here are some strategies for getting outside personnel to understand and comply with your safety procedures. 

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. 

Develop detailed contracts with outside waste-management firms. Define clearly the duties and responsibilities of plant personnel and waste-collection personnel. 

The book does not focus on occupational safety and health issues, although improved process safety can benefit these areas. Detailed engineering designs are outside the scope of this work. This book intends to identify issues and concerns in batch reaction systems and provide potential solutions to address these concerns. This should be of value to process design engineers, operators, maintenance personnel, as well as members of process hazards analysis teams. While this book offers potential solutions to specific issues/concerns, ultimately the user needs to make the case for the solutions that provide a balance between risk... 

You should consider obtaining internal and external quality assurance reviews of the study (to ferret out errors in modeling, data, etc.). Independent peer reviews of the QRA results can be helpful by presenting alternate viewpoints, and you should include outside experts (either consultants or personnel from another plant) on the QRA review panel. You should also set up a mechanism wherein disputes between QRA team members (e.g., technical arguments about safety issues) can be voiced and reconciled. All of these factors play an essential role in producing a defendable, high-quality QRA. Once the QRA is complete, you must formally document your response to the project team s final report and any recommendations it contains. 

Tables 27-1 to 27-3 have concentrated on the personnel makeup of control agencies. For a broader look at places of employment. Table 27-4 shows where 8037 members of the Air Pollution Control Association (APCA) of the United States and Canada worked in 1982. (This list includes foreign as well as domestic members of APCA but does not include the membership of the air pollution control associations of other countries.) This table shows that only 10.7% of the members work in control agencies. This table gives a somewhat distorted picture because in many air pollution organizations only the senior executive, professional, and scientific personnel belong to APCA, whereas the total North American workforce in air pollution includes several times the 8037 membership total who are in junior, technical, service, or manual sectors and are not association members. These numbers could be still greater if those engaged in this work outside North America were included. The Air Pollution Control Association changed its name to the Air and Waste Management Association in 1988. The Air and Waste Management Association had a membership of over 14,000 in 1993, but only a portion of the members were active in the air pollution profession.

Large towers often have the motor mounted horizontally connected to a right angle gear drive. The motor can be closely coupled- in the air stream- or connected with a drive shaft with the motor outside the air stream. Maintenance personnel typically prefer the external TEFC motor- when available- for its easier access. Cooling tower fans- like all fans- operate in accordance with the fan laws one of which states that the horsepower required to drive a fan increases to the cube of fan speed. 

Containment buildings are an example of inherent safety conflicts and tradeoffs. A containment building provides protection outside the building, but it can also trap and concentrate material from small leaks inside the building, increasing the risk to personnel entering the building. 

If your eompany is working under a HASP developed by someone outside your eompany, there are other eonsiderations that should be examined. If you review the HASP and you do not feel that a eertain seetion applies to your operation, you should make sure that you doe-ument this exeeption in writing. Keep the doeumentation on file at the site and keep a baekup at another loeation. It is important to keep this doeumentation on file and to eommunieate the ehanges so that all site personnel understand their safety obligations. 

Evaluate air, soil, and water sampling results. Consider the distanees needed to prevent an explosion or fire from aflfeeting personnel outside the exelusion zone. 

On-Site Emergency Responder 29 CFR 1910.120 (q) or state mandate Personnel from outside DOE site who respond to an emergency on the DOE site. Includes local fire fighters. HAZMAT teams, etc. Practice and drills as necessary. 

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