Worker health/safety

Worker Health/Safety. Lead HHS Agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... 

The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) covers a broad range of issues relating to worker health and safety, many of which impact the power generation industry (16,17). The Act sets standards designed to protect worker health and safety, particularly in industrial settings. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration, organized under the U.S. Department of Labor, implements and enforces OSHA standards and periodically updates poHcies governing worker health and safety. 

Process Safety A discipline that focuses on the prevention and mitigation of fires, explosions, and accidental chemical releases at process facilities. Excludes classic worker health and safety issues involving working surfaces, ladders, protective equipment, etc. 

This guideline describes methods to help the chemical processing industry apply the CCPS chemical process safety concepts to outsourced manufacturing operations, specifically the tolling vendor-client relationship. In addition to the focus on process safety, information and examples provided in this text foster good practices relative to community and worker health, and environmental responsibility. 

Although not as informative as past performance measures or hard evidence of good programs, the existence of a company policy stating a candidate toller s commitment to health, safety and environmental responsibility should be determined. These policies, typically signed and displayed prominently in the facility, help ensure management and company executives are fully aware of their commitment to workers and the public. 

It is incumbent upon the toller to develop and follow internal management systems as appropriate to support business needs, production needs, process safety, environmental responsibility, and worker health. The selection process should have considered whether or not satisfactory systems are in place. Nevertheless, the contract or auxiliary documents may be the vehicle used to help ensure that the system reviewed is the system actually used for completing the toll in question. Within the process safety management system, the management of change and training elements are essential subsystems. 

The team should also undertake a comparative economic analysis of the P2 options and the existing situation. Where it cannot quantify benefits or changes (e.g., reduction in future liability, worker health and safety costs, etc.), it should make some form of qualitative assessment. 

Wlien it is determined that a speeifie operation falls under the seope of HAZWOPER, a hazard-based approaeh to the implementation of the various elements of the standard should be developed. Wlien HAZWOPER is implemented, OSHA stipulates, If there is overlap or eonfliet with any other standard, the provision more proteetive of worker health and safety should apply. ... 

Hazards Ahead Managing Cleanup Worker Health and Safety at the Nuclear Weapons Complex. U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment. Washington, DC U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993, pp. 3, 13. 

For asbestos removal, the provisions of the OSHA Asbestos Standard 29 CFR 1926.1101 are more protective of worker health and safety than are the more general provisions. The HASP therefore provides that the asbestos removal tasks conducted inside the building will be performed in accordance with the OSHA Asbestos Standard. After the asbestos has been removed, the lead-based paint will be removed. Again, the provisions of the OSHA Standard for lead removal are more protective of worker health and safety than are the more general provisions of 29 CFR 1910.120. Therefore, the removal of the lead-based paint inside the building will be performed in full compliance with the OSHA Lead Standard [1]. 

A properly written HASP should contain worker health and safety program information, guidance, and alternatives. The HASP should quickly answer the following questions What hazards are present and How can we make sure that the tasks will be performed safely The following general guidelines will help to answer these questions ... 

Work zones are often temporary. Many times, onee the work has been eondueted, the zone boundaries ehange and sometimes beeome support zones. Temporary work zones ean be used to eflfeetively manage regulatory seope. Area and personnel exposure monitoring is erueial in order to verify that zoning, eontainments, work praetiees, and proeedures have been designed appropriately and maintain worker health and safety. 

Flazardous waste sites are divided into as many or as few zones as necessary to protect worker health and safety. Work zones are established to prevent the spread of hazardous substances from contaminated to clean areas. Radiological work zones should be considered compatible with hazardous waste work zones, differing only in terminology. Diagrams, sketches, and maps should be used as often as necessary and constantly updated and communicated so that workers can be sure that they are appropriately protected [3]. 

For aetivities beyond those explieitly addressed by FIAZWOPER and for aetivities for whieh more than one regulation is relevant, use the regulation that is more proteetive of worker health and safety. These provisions should be ineorporated into the medieal surveillanee program [1]. 

Functions such as industrial hygiene (the protection of worker health against occupational hazards) and hazardous waste mcmagement involve the control of hazards arising from processes. As with process safety, you can attempt to use engineering-based solutions alone, but will find that ongoing control of hazards is difficult to achieve. Designing-in hazard control and... 

Work, etc. Act 1974 an employer has to take all steps, as far as is reasonably practicable, to ensure the health, safety and welfare of his workers. Permissible noise levels are defined by codes of practice, and the figure permitted for employee exposure is 90dB(A) 8-hour Leq. 

Special precautions may be needed to protect worker health and safety during operation... 

Special precautions may need to be taken to protect worker health and safety during operation (because of the use of strongly oxidizing chemicals) also concentrated oxidant injection can result in violent subsurface reactions. 

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) The U.S. Department of Labor through OSHA has safety and health regulatory and enforcement control over worker health in most industries, businesses, and states in the nation. 

WORKER HEALTH AND SAFETY IN SOLAR THERMAL POWER SYSTEMS. 

Agent Hydrolysis and Treatment of Metal Parts (Steps 8, 10, 13, and 16), 115 Treatment of Hydrolysates and Dunnage by Supercritical Water Oxidation (Steps 11, 12, and 14), 116 Assessment of Integration Issues, 118 Component Integration, 118 Process Operability, 119 Monitoring and Control Strategy, 119 Maintenance Issues, 119 Process Safety, 120 Worker Health and Safety, 121 Public Safety, 121... 

OSHA is entrusted with the major responsibility for workplace safety and workers health (Wang, 1994). It is responsible for the means by which chemicals are contained (TPG, 1995) through the inspection of workplaces to ensure compliance and enforcement of applicable standards under OSHA. It is also the means by which guidelines have evolved for the destruction of chemicals used in chemical laboratories (Lunn and Sansone, 1994 Studt, 1995). 

In applying paragraph 1, substitution shall by preference be undertaken, whereby the employer shall avoid the use of a hazardous chemical agent by replacing it with a chemical agent or process which, under its condition of use, is not hazardous or less hazardous to workers health and safety, as the case may be. 

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