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HAZWOPER Management and Supervisor

HAZWOPER Management and Supervisor. Personnel responsible for safety/health. Personnel and alternates responsible for safety and health May vary according to job responsibilities. 1a. Safety and health hazards. Potential exposures to chemical hazards Biological and radiological hazards

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HAZWOPER Management and Supervisor

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  1. HAZWOPERManagement and Supervisor

  2. Personnel responsible for safety/health • Personnel and alternates responsible for safety and health • May vary according to job responsibilities 1a

  3. Safety and health hazards • Potential exposures to chemical hazards • Biological and radiological hazards • Principles of toxicology • General safety hazards 2a

  4. Personal protective equipment • Equipment selection and use • Maintenance and storage • Decontamination and disposal 3a

  5. Personal protective equipment • Training and proper fit • Donning and doffing procedures • Inspection 3b

  6. Personal protective equipment • In-use monitoring • Program evaluation • Equipment limitations 3c

  7. Personal protective equipment • Employers must provide and require the use of PPE where engineering controls are not feasible 3d

  8. Personal protective equipment • PPE must be appropriate to the: • requirements/limitations of the site • task-specific conditions and duration • identified hazards and potential hazards 3e

  9. Work practices to minimize risk from hazards • Examples of safe work practices include removing all non-essential personnel from potential exposure while: • opening drums • wetting down dusty operations • placing employees upwind of potential hazards 4a

  10. Work practices to minimize risk from hazards • The standard covers two specific work practices: • Handling and Labeling Drums and Containers 1910.120(j) • Sanitation of Temporary Workplaces 1910.120(n) 4b

  11. Work practices to minimize risk from hazards • Handling and labeling drums and containers • Ensure that drums meet required regulations • Inform employees of appropriate hazard warnings of labeled drums • Ensure that safe practices are instituted 4c

  12. Minimize risk from hazards • Handling and labeling drums and containers • Standing on or working from drums or containers is prohibited • Evacuate non-essential employees from the transfer area 4d

  13. Minimize risk from hazards • Handling and labeling drums and containers • Use barriers to protect equipment operators from the transfer area • Make available a continuous means of communication • Safe removal of bulging drums or containers 4e

  14. Minimize risk from hazards • Sanitation of temporary workplaces • Privies • Chemical toilets • Recirculation toilets • Combustion toilets 4f

  15. Engineering controls and equipment • Engineering controls and work practices must be implemented to help reduce and maintain employee exposure at or below permissible exposure limits • If engineering and work practice controls are not feasible, use appropriate PPE 5a

  16. Medical surveillance • Medical surveillance helps assess and monitor the health and fitness of employees working with hazardous substances 6a

  17. Medical surveillance • Establish a medical surveillance program in the following situations: • Employees are exposed to hazardous substances above the PEL for more than 30 days/year • Employees are exposed above the published exposure levels for 30 days or more/year 6b

  18. Medical surveillance • Establish a medical surveillance program in the following situations: • Workers wear approved respirators for 30 or more days/year on site • Workers are exposed to unexpected or emergency releases of hazardous wastes above exposure limits 6c

  19. Medical surveillance • Establish a medical surveillance program in the following situations: • Employees are members of HAZMAT team 6d

  20. Medical surveillance • Examinations are performed under the supervision of a licensed physician without cost to the employee, and in a reasonable time and place 6e

  21. Medical surveillance • Examinations are given as follows: • Prior to job assignment and annually thereafter • At the termination of employment • Before reassignment to an area where medical examinations are not required 6f

  22. Medical surveillance • Examinations are given as follows: • If the examining physician believes that a periodic follow-up is medically necessary • As soon as possible for employees injured or becoming ill from exposure during an emergency 6g

  23. Elements of site-specific safety and health plans • Decontamination procedures • Handling contaminated clothing • Showers and change rooms 7a

  24. Emergency response plans • Review 29 CFR 1910.38 • Review 29 CFR 1910.120(l) 8a

  25. Emergency response plans - required elements • Personnel roles, lines of authority, communications procedures • Pre-emergency planning • Emergency recognition and prevention 9a

  26. Emergency response plans - required elements • Emergency medical and first aid treatment • Methods or procedures for alerting onsite employees • Safe distances and places of refuge 9b

  27. Emergency response plans - required elements • Site security and control • Decontamination procedures • Critique of response and follow-up 9c

  28. Emergency response plans - required elements • PPE and emergency equipment • Evacuation routes/procedures 9d

  29. Elements of a safety and health plan • A safety and health risk or hazard analysis for each site task and operation • Specific employee training assignments • PPE 10a

  30. Elements of a safety and health plan • Medical surveillance requirements • Frequency and types of air monitoring • Site control measures • Decontamination procedures 10b

  31. Elements of a safety and health plan • Emergency response plans • Confined space entry procedures • Spill containment program 10c

  32. Personal protective equipment program • Select and use PPE that is appropriate for the task at hand 11a

  33. Spill containment programs • Review 29 CFR 1910.38 12a

  34. Hazard monitoring procedures - checklist • Is the plan in writing? • Is the written plan accessible to employees? • Are emergency escape procedures and emergency escape routes assigned? 13a

  35. Hazard monitoring procedures - checklist • Are procedures established to account for all employees after the emergency evacuation has been completed? • Has an employee alarm system been developed? 13b

  36. Hazard monitoring procedures - checklist • Have enough employees been trained in evacuation? • Has the emergency action plan been reviewed? 13c

  37. Hazard monitoring procedures - checklist • Is the written plan kept at the workplace and made available to employees? • Will employees be handling incidental releases? 13d

  38. Hazard monitoring procedures • Hazardous waste site hazards include: • toxic chemicals • fire and explosion hazards • radioactivity • biological hazards • oxygen-deficient atmospheres • oxygen-enriched atmospheres 13e

  39. Hazard monitoring procedures • Sampling methods include: • personal sampling • water sampling • soil testing • drum sampling • compatibility testing 13f

  40. Hazard monitoring procedures • Sampling instruments include: • oxygen meters • combustible gas indicators • colorimetric detector tubes • personal alarm systems 13g

  41. Confined space entry • Review 29 CFR 1910.146 14a

  42. Spill containment - equipment • Drop cloths or plastics • Collection containers • Absorbents, foams, chemical containment materials 15a

  43. Spill containment - equipment • Long-handled wash brushes, paper cloth towels • Appropriate PPE and reference materials 15b

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