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Title: Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER)


1
Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response
(HAZWOPER)
  • 29 CFR 1910.120

2
An Outline of the Provisions of 1910.120
  • Scope, application, and definitions
  • Safety and health program
  • Site characterization and analysis
  • Site control
  • Training
  • Medical surveillance
  • Engineering controls, work practices and personal
    protective equipment (PPE)
  • Monitoring
  • Informational programs
  • Handling drums and containers
  • Decontamination

3
An Outline of the Provisions of 1910.120
  • Emergency response by employees
  • Illumination
  • Sanitation at temporary workplaces
  • New technology programs
  • Operations under RCRA
  • Hazardous substance release

4
Purpose
1910.120
  • The purpose of HAZWOPER is to improve the ability
    of employees and employers to respond to
    emergencies caused by releases of hazardous
    substances.

5
Scope
1910.120(a)(1)
  • Covers the following operations
  • Clean-up operations required by a governmental
    body, whether federal, state, local or other,
    involving hazardous substances that are conducted
    at uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.
  • Corrective actions involving clean-up operations
    at sites covered by Resource Conservation and
    Recovery Act (RCRA).
  • Voluntary clean-up operations at sites recognized
    by federal, state, local or other governmental
    bodies as uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.

6
Scope
1910.120(a)(1)
  • Operations involving hazardous wastes that are
    conducted at treatment, storage and disposal
    facilities licensed under the Resource
    Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
  • Emergency response operations for release of, or
    substantial threats of release of, hazardous
    substances.

7
Scope
1910.120(a)(1)
  • Unless
  • The employer can demonstrate that the operation
    does not involve employee exposure or the
    reasonable possibility for employee exposure to
    safety or health hazards.

8
Definitions
1910.120(a)(3)
  • Hazardous substance
  • Any substance to which exposure results or may
    result in adverse effects on the health or safety
    of employees.
  • Any substance defined under section 101(14) of
    CERCLA
  • Any biologic agent and other disease causing
    agent
  • Listed by the U.S. DOT (49 CFR 172.101)
  • Hazardous waste

9
Definitions
1910.120(a)(3)
  • Hazardous Waste
  • EPA defines hazardous waste as by-products of
    society that can pose a substantial or potential
    hazard to human health or the environment when
    improperly managed. It possesses at least one of
    four characteristics (ignitability, reactivity,
    toxicity, or corrosiveness), or appears on
    special EPA lists.
  • Hazardous waste operations
  • Any operation conducted within
  • the scope of the HAZWOPER standard.

10
Definitions
1910.120(a)(3)
  • Hazardous materials response (HAZMAT) team
  • An organized group of employees, designated by
    the employer, who are expected to perform work to
    handle and control actual or potential leaks or
    spills of hazardous substances.

11
Definitions
1910.120(a)(3)
  • Emergency response
  • A response effort by employees from outside the
    immediate release area or by other designated
    responders (i.e., mutual aid groups, local fire
    departments, etc.)

12
Definitions
1910.120(a)(3)
  • Incidental release
  • Release of a hazardous substance that does not
    pose a significant safety or health hazard to
    employees in the immediate vicinity or to the
    worker cleaning it up, nor does it have the
    potential to become an emergency.

13
Definitions
1910.120(a)(3)
  • Post emergency response
  • That portion of an emergency response performed
    after the immediate threat of a release has been
    stabilized or eliminated and clean-up of the site
    has begun.

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Safety and Health Program
1910.120(b)(1)(i)
  • Employers shall develop and implement a written
    safety and health program for their employees
    involved in hazardous waste operations.

Safety Health Program
Safety Health Program
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Safety and Health Program
1910.120(b)(1)(ii)
  • Program shall incorporate
  • Organizational structure
  • Comprehensive work plan
  • Site-specific safety and health plan
  • Safety and health training program
  • Medical surveillance program
  • Employers standard operating procedures for
    safety and health
  • Any necessary interface between general program
    and site-specific program

16
Safety and Health Program
1910.120(b)(1)(iv)-(v)
  • Contractors and subcontractors
  • Shall be informed of
  • Emergency response procedures
  • Any potential fire, explosion, health, safety or
    other hazards of the operation
  • Program availability
  • Shall be made available to any contractor or
    subcontractor

17
Safety and Health Program
1910.120(b)(2)
  • Organizational structure
  • Elements
  • General supervisor
  • Site safety and health supervisor
  • Other personnel needed for HAZWOPER
  • Lines of authority, responsibility and
    communication
  • Organizational structure shall be updated as
    necessary.

18
Safety and Health Program
1910.120(b)(3)
  • Comprehensive workplan shall
  • Define anticipated clean-up activities
  • Define work tasks and objectives
  • Shall establish personnel requirements
  • Shall provide for the implementation of training
  • Provide for implementation of informational
    programs
  • Implementation of medical surveillance program

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Safety and Health Program
1910.120(b)(4)
  • Site-specific safety and health plan
  • Elements
  • Hazard analysis for each site task
  • Employee training assignments
  • Personal protective equipment
  • Used by employees for each site task
  • Medical surveillance requirements
  • Frequency and types of air monitoring
  • Personnel

20
Safety and Health Program
1910.120(b)(4)
  • Site control measures
  • Site map
  • Work zones
  • Use of buddy system
  • Site communications
  • Safe work practices
  • Identification of nearest medical facilities
  • Decontamination procedures
  • Emergency response plan

21
Site Characterization/Analysis
1910.120(c)(1)
  • Hazardous waste sites shall be evaluated to
    identify specific site hazards and to determine
    the appropriate safety and health control
    procedures needed to protect employees.

22
Site Characterization/Analysis
1910.120(c)(2)-(3)
  • Preliminary evaluation
  • Performed prior to site entry
  • Hazard identification
  • Conditions that may pose inhalation or skin
    absorption hazard that are immediately dangerous
    to life or health (IDLH) shall be identified.

23
Site Characterization/Analysis
1910.120(c)(4)
  • Required information
  • Location and approximate size of the site
  • Description of response/job to be performed.
  • Duration of employee activity
  • Site topography and accessibility
  • Expected safety and health hazards
  • Status and capabilities of emergency response
    teams
  • Expected or involved hazardous substances

24
Site Characterization/Analysis
1910.120(c)(5)
  • Personal protective equipment
  • Shall be provided and used during initial site
    entry
  • If respiratory protection is warranted, an escape
    SCBA of at least five minutes shall be carried.
  • Level B PPE shall be provided if sufficient
    information is not available to identify the
    hazards.
  • Once hazards identified, the appropriate
  • PPE shall be selected.

25
Monitoring
  • 1910.120(c)(6)
  • Shall be conducted during initial site entry when
    the site evaluation produces information which
    shows the potential for ionizing radiation or
    IDLH conditions, or when the site information is
    not sufficient reasonably to eliminate these
    conditions

26
Risk Identification
  • 1910.120(c)(7)(c)(8)
  • Once the presence and concentrations of specific
    hazardous substances and health hazards have been
    established, the risks associated with these
    substances shall be identified.
  • Employees who will be working
  • on the site shall be informed of
  • any risks that have been identified.

27
Training
1910.120(e)(1)
  • Employees shall not be permitted to participate
    in or supervise field activities until they have
    been trained to a level required by their job
    function and responsibility.

28
Training Program Elements
1910.120(e)(2)
  • Names of personnel and alternates responsible for
    site safety and health
  • Safety, health and other hazards on site
  • Safe use of engineering controls and equipment on
    site
  • Work practices by which the employee can minimize
    risks from hazards
  • Use of PPE
  • Medical surveillance requirements
  • Contents of site safety and health plan

29
Initial Training
1910.120(e)(3)(i)
  • General site workers
  • Equipment operators
  • General laborers
  • Supervisory personnel
  • Training
  • Minimum 40 hours off-site
  • Three days field experienceminimum

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Initial Training
1910.120(e)(3)(ii)
  • Workers on-site to complete specific limited
    tasks
  • Ground water monitoring
  • Land surveying
  • Geophysical surveying
  • On-site workers unlikely to be exposed over
    permissible exposure limits (PEL)
  • Training
  • Receive 24 hours of instruction off-site
  • One day actual field experience

31
Initial Training
1910.120(e)(3)(iii)
  • Regular on-site workers
  • Exposures under PEL and respirators not required
  • Training
  • Receive 24 hours of instruction off-site
  • One day actual field experience

32
Initial Training
1910.120(e)(3)(iv)
  • Workers with 24 hours of training
  • Who become general site workers or are required
    to wear respirators
  • Training
  • Receive 16 additional hours of instruction
    off-site
  • Two days of actual field experience

33
Initial Training
1910.120(e)(4)
  • Management and supervisors
  • Supervise employees engaged in hazardous waste
    operations
  • Training
  • Receive 40 hours of instruction off-site
  • Three days of actual field experience

34
Initial Training
1910.120(e)(4)
  • Management and supervisors
  • Training may be reduced to 24 hours and one day
    if only responsible for
  • Workers on site occasionally
  • Workers exposures under permissible exposure
    limits

35
Qualifications for Trainers
1910.120(e)(5)
  • Trainers shall be qualified to instruct employees
    about the subject matter that is being presented.
  • Instructors shall be competent and knowledgeable
    in subject matter.
  • Means possessing the skills, knowledge,
    experience, and judgment to perform assigned
    tasks or activities satisfactorily as determined
    by the employer

36
Qualifications for Trainers
1910.120(e)(5)
  • Qualifications shown by academic degrees,
    completed training courses and/or work
    experience.
  • OSHA does not certify instructors.

37
Training Certification
1910.120(e)(6)
  • Certification
  • Employees shall be certified by an instructor as
    having completed the training.
  • Those not certified are prohibited from engaging
    in hazardous waste operations.
  • Written certificate

38
Equivalent Training
1910.120(e)(9)
  • Employers who can show documentation or
    certification that an employee has equivalent
    training and/or work experience.
  • Initial training not required
  • Employees new to a site must receive
    site-specific training before entry.

39
Equivalent Training
1910.120(e)(9)
  • Equivalent training includes any academic
    training or the training that existing employees
    might have already received from actual hazardous
    waste site experience.

40
Refresher Training
1910.120(e)(8)
  • Employees, managers and supervisors shall receive
    eight hours of refresher training annually.

41
Training FAQ
Interpretation
  • Is computer-based training acceptable for
    refresher training?
  • Standard Interpretation 11/22/1994 - The use of
    computer-based training to satisfy OSHA training
    requirements.
  • May meet some refresher training requirements
  • Not sufficient by itself

42
Training FAQ
Interpretation
  • What if refresher training isnt received in 12
    months?
  • Standard Interpretation 03/12/1993 - Hazardous
    waste operations and emergency response lapsed
    refresher training requirements.
  • If the date of refresher training has lapsed
  • Repeat of initial training must be based on the
    employees familiarity with safety and health
    procedures used on site.
  • Employee should take next available refresher
    training course.

43
Training FAQ
Interpretation
  • Can refresher training be given in segments?
  • Standard Interpretation 07/21/1992 - Refresher
    training and HAZWOPER
  • Refresher training may be given in segments so
    long as the required eight hours have been
    completed by the employees anniversary date.

44
Training Records
Appendix E
  • Recordkeeping
  • Should be maintained for a minimum of five years
    after the training date

HAZWOPER
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Medical Surveillance
1910.120(f)
  • Instituted by the employer for the following
    employees
  • Exposed to hazardous substances or health hazards
    at or above the PEL
  • Employees who wear a respirator 30 days or more a
    year
  • Employees who are injured, become ill or possible
    overexposure
  • Members of HAZMAT teams

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Medical Surveillance
1910.120(f)
  • Medical examinations shall be made available
  • Prior to assignment
  • At least once every twelve months
  • At termination of employment
  • As soon as possible after notification that
    employee has developed signs of overexposure
  • More frequently as determined by a doctor
  • At no cost to employee
  • Without loss of pay
  • Reasonable time and place

47
Medical Surveillance
1910.120(f)(7)
  • Physicians written opinion
  • Employer furnish the employee with a copy of
    written opinion
  • Whether employee has any medical conditions that
    place employee at increased risk
  • Recommended limitations on employees assignments
  • Results of medical examination
  • Statement that employee has been informed
  • of results

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Medical Surveillance Records
1910.120(f)
  • Recordkeeping
  • Employee exposure and medical records (1910.1020)
  • Medical record for each employee shall be
    preserved and maintained for at least the
    duration of employment plus 30 years.

49
Engineering Controls and Work Practices
1910.120(g)
  • Engineering controls and work practices are the
    preferred means to control employee exposure.
  • Instituted to reduce and maintain employee
    exposure to or below the permissible exposure
    limits.
  • Employee rotation prohibited except when there is
    no other way of complying with ionizing radiation
    dose limits.

50
Engineering Controls and Work Practices
1910.120(g)(1)
  • May include
  • Equipment operated remotely
  • Removing non-essential employees from potential
    exposure
  • Wetting down dusty operations
  • Locate employees upwind of hazard

51
PPE
1910.120(g)(3)
  • The purpose of PPE is to shield or isolate
    individuals from the chemical, physical and
    biologic hazards that may be encountered.
  • Four categories
  • Level A
  • Level B
  • Level C
  • Level D

52
PPE - Level A
  • Selected when the greatest level of skin,
    respiratory, and eye protection is required.
  • Totally-encapsulating chemical protective suit
  • Full face-piece SCBA
  • Gloves (inner/outer)
  • Boots, boot-covers
  • Disposable protective suit

53
PPELevel B
  • Selected when the highest level of respiratory
    protection is necessary but a lesser level of
    skin protection is needed.
  • Full face-piece SCBA
  • Hooded chemical
  • resistant clothing
  • Gloves (inner/outer)
  • Boots, boot-covers

54
PPELevel C
  • Selected when the concentration(s) and type(s) of
    airborne substances is known and the criteria for
    using air purifying respirators are met.
  • Full-face or half mask, air purifying respirator
  • (NIOSH Approved)
  • Hooded chemical resistant clothing
  • Gloves inner/outer
  • Boots, boot-covers

55
PPELevel D
  • A work uniform affording minimal protection.
  • Coveralls
  • Gloves
  • Glasses
  • Boots, chemical resistant
    steel toe

56
Monitoring-Initial Entry
1910.120(h)(2)
  • Initial entry
  • Monitor to identify IDLH condition

57
Periodic Monitoring
1910.120(h)(3)
  • When the possibility of IDLH condition or
    flammable atmosphere has developed

58
Monitoring of High-Risk Employees
1910.120(h)(4)
  • High-risk employees
  • After the actual clean-up phase commences, the
    employer shall monitor those employees likely to
    have the highest exposures.

59
Informational Programs
1910.120(i)
  • Employers shall develop and implement a program,
    which is part of the safety and health program,
    to inform employees, contractors and
    subcontractors (or their representative) of the
    level and degree of exposure likely to occur.

60
Drums and Containers
1910.120(j)
  • Handling drums and containers
  • General requirements for drum and container
    handling
  • Procedures for opening drums and containers
  • Materials handling equipment
  • Radioactive, shock sensitive and lab waste
  • Sampling of drums and containers
  • Shipping and transporting
  • Tanks and vaults

61
Decontamination
1910.120(k)(2)
  • Prior to site entry, decontamination procedures
    must be
  • Implemented
  • Developed
  • Communicated to employees

62
Decontamination
1910.120(k)(2)
  • Site safety and health supervisor must monitor
    effectiveness of the decontamination procedure.

63
Decontamination
1910.120(k)(5) 1910.120(k)(8)
  • Equipment and PPE must be decontaminated or
    disposed of in a proper manner.
  • Regular showers and change rooms must meet the
    requirements of the OSHA sanitation
    standard1910.141(d)(3)

64
Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites
1910.120(l)
  • An uncontrolled hazardous waste site is defined
    as an area where an accumulation of hazardous
    substances creates a threat to the health and
    safety of individuals, the environment, or both.
  • Emergency response by employees
  • A written emergency response plan is required.
  • Employers who will evacuate all personnel and not
    allow them to participate in response efforts are
    exempt from this requirement, but must prepare an
    emergency action plan as required by 29 CFR
    1910.38.

65
Uncontrolled HazardousWaste Sites
1910.120(l)(2)
  • Elements of emergency response plan
  • Pre-emergency planning
  • Personnel roles, lines of authority, training and
    communication
  • Emergency recognition and prevention
  • Safe distances and places of refuge
  • Site security and control
  • Evacuation routes and procedures

66
Uncontrolled HazardousWaste Sites
1910.120(l)(2)
  • Decontamination procedures
  • Emergency medical treatment and first aid
  • Emergency alerting and response procedures
  • Critique of response and follow-up
  • PPE and emergency equipment

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Illumination
1910.120(m)
  • Areas accessible to employees shall be lighted.

68
Illumination
Foot Candles Area or Operations
5 General site areas
3 Excavation and waste areas, accessways, active storage areas, loading platforms, refueling, and field maintenance areas.
5 Indoors warehouses, corridors, hallways, and exitways.
5 Tunnels, shafts, and general underground work areas (Exception minimum of 10 foot-candles is required at tunnel and shaft heading during drilling, mucking, and scaling. Mine Safety and Health Administration approved cap lights shall be acceptable for use in the tunnel heading.)
10 General shops (e.g., mechanical and electrical equipment rooms, active storerooms, barracks or living quarters, locker or dressing rooms, dining areas, and indoor toilets and workrooms.)
30 First aid stations, infirmaries, and offices.
Table H-120.1
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Sanitation
1910.120(n)
  • Sanitation at temporary workplaces
  • Requirements
  • Adequate supply of potable water and outlets for
    nonpotable water
  • Food handling shall meet applicable laws
  • Adequate washing facilities
  • Showers and change rooms provided

70
Sanitation
Table H-120.2
  • Sanitation at temporary workplaces
  • Requirements
  • Toilets shall be provided in accordance with
    Table H-120.2

Number of employees Minimum number of facilities
20 or fewer One
More than 20, fewer than 200 One toilet seat and 1 urinal per 40 employees
More than 200 One toilet seat and 1 urinal per 50 employees
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New Technology
1910.120(o)(2)
  • Employer shall develop and implement procedures
    for the introduction of effective new
    technologies and equipment.
  • Evaluation shall be done to determine the
    effectiveness of the new methods, materials, or
    equipment.

Chemical detection
72
TSD Facilities
1910.120(p)
  • Treatment, storage and disposal (TSD) facilities
  • Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
    of 1976 (RCRA), employers who conduct operations
    at TSD facilities shall implement
  • Safety and health program
  • Hazard communication program
  • Medical surveillance program
  • Decontamination program

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TSD Facilities
1910.120(p)(7)
  • Training program
  • New employees
  • Initial training 24 hours
  • Annual refresher 8 hours
  • Current employees
  • Previous work experience and/or training
  • Annual refresher 8 hours
  • Trainers
  • Completed training course
  • Competent instructional skills

74
TSD Facilities
1910.120(p)(8)
  • Emergency response program
  • An emergency response plan developed and
    implemented.
  • If employees are evacuated from the worksite when
    an emergency occurs and do not assist in handling
    the emergency are exempt if they provide an
    emergency action plan complying with 29 CFR
    1910.38.

75
Emergency Response
1910.120(a)(3)
  • Defined as a response effort by employees from
    outside the immediate release area or by other
    designated responders (i.e., mutual aid groups,
    local fire departments, etc.) to an occurrence
    which results, or is likely to result, in an
    uncontrolled release of a hazardous substance.

76
Emergency Response Plan
1910.120(q)(1)
  • An emergency response plan shall be
  • Developed and implemented to handle anticipated
    emergencies.
  • In writing and available for inspection.
  • Employers who evacuate their employees from the
    worksite are exempt from the requirements of this
    paragraph.
  • Plan must comply with 29 CFR 1910.38.

77
Emergency Response Plan
1910.120(q)(2)
  • Elements of an emergency response plan
  • Pre-emergency planning and coordination with
    outside parties
  • Personnel roles, including lines of authority,
    training, and communication
  • Emergency recognition and procedure
  • Safe distances and places of refuge
  • Site security and control
  • Evacuation routes and procedures
  • Decontamination
  • Emergency medical treatment and first aid
  • Emergency alerting and response procedures
  • Critique of response and follow-up
  • PPE and emergency equipment

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Handling Emergency Response
1910.120(q)(3)
  • Procedures for handling emergency response
  • The senior responding emergency response official
    shall become the individual in charge of a
    site-specific ICS
  • The ICS commander shall identify, to the fullest
    extent possible, all hazardous substance or
    conditions present
  • The ICS commander shall implement appropriate
    emergency operations and assure that appropriate
    PPE is worn
  • Employees engaged in emergency response and
    exposed to potentially hazardous substances shall
    wear positive pressure SCBS while engaged in
    emergency response
  • The ICS commander shall limit the number of
    emergency response personnel at the emergency site

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Handling Emergency Response
1910.120(q)(3)
  1. Back up personnel shall be standing by with
    equipment ready to provide assistance or rescue.
  2. The ICS commander shall identify a safety officer
    who is knowledgeable in the operation being
    implemented at the emergency response site
  3. When the safety officer judges activities to be
    IDLH and /or involve an imminent danger
    condition, he has the authority to terminate
    those activities.
  4. After emergency operations have been terminated,
    the ICS commander shall implement appropriate
    decontamination procedures.
  5. When deemed necessary, approved SCBA may be used
    with approved cylinders from other approved SCBA
    provided that such cylinders are of the same
    capacity and pressure rating.

80
Emergency Response
1910.120(q)(4)
  • Skilled support personnel
  • Skilled in the operation of certain equipment
  • Earth moving, digging, crane and
    hoisting equipment
  • Needed temporarily
  • Shall be given initial briefing on
    PPE, chemical hazards
    and
  • duties

81
Emergency Response
1910.120(q)(5)
  • Specialist employees
  • Technical advisor who is trained in the hazards
    of
    specific hazardous substances.
  • Shall receive training or demonstrate competence
    in
    area of expertise

82
Emergency Response
1910.120(q)(6)
  • Training
  • Based on the duties and function to be performed
    by each responder of an emergency response
    organization.

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Emergency Response
1910.120(q)(6)(i)
  • First responder awareness level
  • Individuals who are likely to witness or discover
    a hazardous substance release.
  • Trained to initiate an emergency response
    sequence by notifying the proper authorities.
  • Shall have sufficient training or demonstrate
    competence in areas listed in 1910.120(q)(6).
  • Shall take no further action than initiating an
    emergency response.

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Emergency Response
1910.120(q)(6)(ii)
  • First responder operations level
  • Individuals who respond to releases or potential
    releases of hazardous substances as part of the
    initial response.
  • Receive at least eight hours of training or have
    had sufficient experience to demonstrate
    competence in areas listed in 1910.120(q)(6)(ii).

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Emergency Response
1910.120(q)(6)(iii)
  • Hazardous materials technician
  • Individuals who respond to releases or potential
    releases of hazardous substances for the purpose
    of stopping the release.
  • Receive at least 24 hours of training equal to
    first responder operations level and in addition,
    have competency in the areas listed in
    1910.120(q)(6)(iii).

86
Emergency Response
  • 1910.120(q)(6)(iv)
  • Hazardous materials specialist
  • Individuals who respond and provide support to
    hazardous materials technicians.
  • Receive at least 24 hours of training equal to
    technician level and in addition, have competency
    in the areas listed in 1910.120(q)(6)(iv).

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Emergency Response
  • 1910.120(q)(6)(v)
  • On scene incident commander
  • Individuals who assume control of the incident
    scene beyond the first responder awareness level.
  • Receive at least 24 hours of training equal to
    the first responder operations level and in
    addition, have competency in the areas listed in
    1910.120(q)(6)(v).

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Emergency Response Training
Interpretation
  • What are the HAZWOPER training requirements for
    hospital staff?
  • 03/10/1999Emergency response training necessary
    for hospital physicians/nurses that may treat
    contaminated patients
  • If personnel are expected to provide limited
    decontamination services in order to attend to
    medical problems, they must be trained to the
    first responder operations level with emphasis on
    the use of PPE and decontamination procedures.

89
Emergency Response Training
13 NCAC 07F .0103
  • First responder operations plus
  • First responders who respond to hydrocarbon fuel
    tank leaks where the leaking tanks contain a
    hydrocarbon fuel which is used to propel the
    vehicle on which the tank is located.

90
Emergency Response Training
13 NCAC 07F .0103
  • First responder operations plus
  • Gasoline
  • Diesel fuel
  • Propane
  • Other hydrocarbon fuels
  • Shall receive training equal to first responder
    operations level

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Emergency Response Training
13 NCAC 07F .0103
  • First responder operations plus
  • Usage of proper specialized PPE provided to the
    first responder at operations plus level
  • Understanding of basic hazardous materials terms
    as they pertain to hydrocarbon fuels
  • Understanding hazard and risk
  • assessment techniques that
  • pertain to hydrocarbon fuels

92
Emergency Response Training
13 NCAC 07F .0103
  • First responder operations plus
  • Perform control, containment, or confinement
    operations
  • Understand and know how to
  • implement decontamination
  • procedures for hydrocarbon fuels

93
Post-Emergency Response
1910.120(q)(11)(ii)
  • Response personnel and training requirements
  • Clean-up by workplace employees
  • Clean-up is done on plant property using plant
    employees shall complete training requirements
    of
  • Hand Protection (1910.138)
  • Respiratory Protection (1910.134)
  • HazCom (1910.1200)

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Summary
  • Purpose
  • Scope
  • Definitions
  • Safety and health program
  • Site characterization and analysis
  • Training

95
Summary
  • Medical surveillance
  • Engineering controls, work practices
  • Personal protective equipment (PPE)
  • Monitoring
  • Informational programs
  • Handling drums and containers

96
Summary
  • Decontamination
  • Hazardous waste sites
  • Illumination
  • Temporary work places
  • New technology programs
  • TSD facilities
  • Response personnel and training requirements

97
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