Guidelines and Standards

A summary of the relevant standards and guidelines is presented below. 

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The prime global authority is the International Maritime Organisation. The IMO sets the standards and guidelines for the removal of offshore installations. The guidelines specify that installations in less than 75 meters of water with substructures weighing less than 4,000 tons be completely removed from the site. Those in deeper water must be removed to a depth of 55 meters below the surface so that there is no hazard to navigation. In some countries the depth to which structures have to be removed has already been extended to 100m. 

Introduction Review and audit processes are used in the chemical process industry to evaluate, examine, and verify the design of process equipment, operating procedures, and management systems. These processes assure compliance with company standards and guidelines as well as government regulations. Reviews and audits can encompass the areas of process and personnel safety, environmental and industrial hygiene protection, quality assurance, maintenance procedures, and so on. 

Pheasant, S. 1987 Ergonomics - standards and guidelines for designers (PP7317). London BSL... 

FSTRAC. 1988. Federal-State Toxicology and Regulatory Alliance Committee (FSTRAC) (database). Chemical Communication Subcommittee. Summary of state and federal drinking water standards and guidelines. March, 1988. 

The federal government has set standards and guidelines to protect people from the possible adverse health effects of endosulfan in drinking water and food. EPA recommends that the amount of endosulfan in lakes, rivers, and streams should not be more than 74 micrograms per liter (pg/L) or 74 parts per billion (74 ppb). This should prevent any harmful health effects from occurring in people who drink the water or eat fish or seafood that live in the water. FDA allows no more than 24 parts per million (24 ppm) of endosulfan on dried tea, and EPA allows no more than 0.1 to 2 ppm endosulfan on other raw agricultural products. 

Standards and guidelines should be established in written form for all dmg regulatory functions. These tools should then be used to guide regulation practice, as well as being made publicly available in order to ensure the transparency of the dmg regulatory process. 

Appropriate standards and guidelines should be developed and used as tools for the application of all regulatoiy processes. They should be freely available to all stakeholders, including the public, in order to increase the transparency of the DRA s operations. The same standard of regulation should be applied to all dmgs, whether they are imported and/or manufactured by the public or the private sector, and destined for domestic consumption or for export. 

NCCLS Infobase 99 (1999) NCCLS approved standards and guidelines. National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, Wayne, PA. 

In Table 3-13 the AEGLs are compared with existing standards and criteria. All currently available exposure standards and guidelines for monomethylhydrazine are shown. 

Exposure standards and guidelines for dimethylhydrazine have been established by several organizations. All currently available standards and guidelines are shown in Table 4-11. 

The federal government is concerned about the amount of hexachloroethane that you are exposed to in the environment. The government has established standards and guidelines to prevent you from being overexposed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has set a limit of 1 part per million (ppm) for the hexachloroethane in workplace air over an 8-hour workday. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) considers hexachloroethane as a potential occupational carcinogen (can cause cancer) and recommends 1 ppm in air as a tolerance value. 

Designers of emergency pressure relief systems should be familiar with the following list of regulations, codes of practice, and industry standards and guidelines in the United States. 

Comply with a corporation s policies, standards and guidelines. 

Organizations that do not provide such information, do not have any accountability standards to meet or achieve, and therefore he safety of the facility will suffer accordingly. Additionally the objectives of design standards and guidelines can be more fully understood if a philosophy of design is documented. 

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