Auto Salvage Yard Occupational Safety and Health Hazards

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Auto Salvage Yard Occupational Safety and
Health Hazards

Sumit K Ghosh Safety Consultant, Bureau of
Safety Education and Training, Department of Labor
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Topics

• Introduction to IOSHA
• Introduction to BuSET
• Occupational Safety and Health Hazards at Auto
  Salvage Yard

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IOSHA and BuSET

• Indiana Occupational Safety and Health
  Administration (IOSHA)
• Enforcement of safety and health standards
• Bureau of Safety Education and Training (BuSET)
• Consultations/On site visit and training

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Indiana OSHA

• Indiana - A state plan state
• IOSHA enforce Federal standard 29CFR 1910.
• All penalties collected go to the state general
  fund
• Mission To save lives, prevent injuries and
  ensure the safety and health of Indianas
  workers.

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• IOSHA Comprised four divisions
• Industrial Hygiene
• Industrial Safety
• Construction Safety
• Bureau of Mines

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IOSHA Inspections

• Complaint
• Referral
• Fatality/Catastrophe
• One fatality
• 3 hospitalized injuries
• General Schedule
• Randomly computer generated
• Emphasis Programs

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The IOSHA Inspection

• Compliance officer presents credentials
• Purpose of visit
• A fat/cat, complaint, referral, or emphasis
  program results in a focused inspection
• A general schedule inspection covers the entire
  worksite
• Opening Conference

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IOSHA Inspection (continued)

• Walkaround
• Point out hazards
• Interview employees
• Closing Conference
• Safety Orders (Citations)
• Provide abatement, and pay fine, if any
• Informal conference
• Contest

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The Informal Conference

• 15 working day period
• An informal conference is conducted by phone or
  in person
• May result in a settlement agreement

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BuSET

• Bureau of Safety Education and Training
• Greater level of safety and health in the
  workplace
• Employee involvement
• FREE
• NO FINES
• EDUCATION -- prior to injuries or accidents

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BuSETs Activities

• Safety and health consultations, on site visit of
  facilities in general industry and construction
• Training Programs
• OSHA 10-Hour courses, 30-Hour courses, short
  seminars
• Technical Assistance
• Voluntary Protection Program
• INSHARP
• Governors Workplace Safety Awards

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Consultations

• Similar to how IOSHA inspections are conducted
• Opening conference
• Walkaround
• Closing conference
• Report of Hazards
• Confidential and comprehensive written report
• Abatement assistance

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Training

• Types of courses
• OSHA 10-Hour courses
• OSHA 20-Hour courses
• Short seminars/Half a day program
• Partner with companies/organizations/ entities
• Written request

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BuSET Training Programs

• Accident Investigation
• Cranes, Hoists, Slings
• Electrical Safety
• Emergency Action Plan
• Hazard Recognition
• How to Survive an IOSHA Inspection
• Internet Based Safety
• IOSHA Top-50 Cited Industrial Violations

• Lockout/Tagout Safety
• Machine Guarding
• Powered Industrial Trucks
• OSHA 300
• Safety-Related Work Practices
• Workplace Violence
• Power Press Training

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Voluntary Protection Program

• Indiana VPP is designed to recognize and promote
  safety and health management programs.
• Management, labor, and IDOL establish a
  cooperative relationship at a workplace that has
  implemented a strong program.

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INSHARP

• INSHARP is another recognition program
• incentives and support to smaller, high-hazard
  employers
• work with their employees to develop, implement
  and continuously improve the effectiveness of
  their workplace safety and health programs
• also includes larger employers who are willing to
  develop exemplary safety and health programs and
  mentor others to achieve similar results.

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Workers and Employers Rights and
Responsibilities
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What are workers responsibilities?

• Read the OSHA poster
• Follow the employers safety and health rules and
  wear or use all required gear and equipment
• Follow safe work practices for your job, as
  directed by your employer
• Report hazardous conditions to a supervisor or
  safety committee
• Report hazardous conditions to OSHA, if employers
  do not fix them
• Cooperate with OSHA inspectors

(see OSHAs Workers web page for more
information)
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What are workers rights?

• Workers have a vital role to play in identifying
  and correcting problems in their workplaces,
  working with their employers whenever possible
• Workers can complain to OSHA about workplace
  conditions threatening their health or safety in
  person, by telephone, by fax, by mail or
  electronically through OSHAs web site
• Section 11(c) of the OSH Act gives workers the
  right to seek safe and healthful conditions on
  the job without being disciplined or fired
• (see OSHAs Workers web page for more
  information)

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What are employers rightsand responsibilities?

• Employers must provide a safe and healthful
  workplace free of recognized hazards and follow
  the OSHA standards
• The OSH Act grants employers important rights,
  particularly during and after an OSHA inspection
• Employers also provide training, medical
  examinations and recordkeeping

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Auto Salvage Yard Safety/Health Hazards
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Auto Salvage Yard Safety/Health
Hazards

• Emergency Action Plan
• Hazard Communication
• Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP)
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Machine Guarding
• Medical/First Aid

• Electrical Safety
• Welding, Cutting, and Brazing
• Compressed Gases
• Confined Spaces
• Noise

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Emergency Action Plan

• 29 CFR 1910.36- 1910.38
• 29 CFR 1910 Subpart L (Fire)

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Emergency Action Plan

• Purpose To protect the employees from serious
  injury, property loss or life in the event of
  major disaster like
• Fire
• Tornado
• Earthquake
• Workplace violation
• Bomb threat
• Hazardous chemical spill

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Emergency Action Plan Requirements

• Emergency escape
• Evacuation diagram
• Fire prevention plan
• Means of egress
• Alarm system
• Emergency telephone lists

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Hazard Communication

• 29 CFR 1910.1200

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Hazard Communication Standard 29 CFR
1910.1200
Ensures that employers and employees know about
work hazards and how to protect themselves so
that the incidence of illnesses and injuries due
to hazardous chemicals is reduced.
Hazard Communication Program
Container Labeling
Material Safety Data Sheet
MSDS
Program
Label
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HazCom Requirements

• Identify and list hazardous chemicals in
  workplaces
• Obtain Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) and
  labels for each hazardous chemical
• Implement a written HazCom program, including
  labels, MSDSs, employee training, and methods
  employer will use to inform employees of hazards
  of non-routine tasks (i.e. spills)
• Train employees on chemical hazards in workplaces

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Material Safety Data Sheets

• Physical hazards, such as fire and explosion
• Health hazards, such as signs of exposure
• Routes of exposure
• Precautions for safe handling and use
• Emergency and first-aid procedures
• Control measures

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Chemicals in Salvage Yards

• Oil
• Grease
• Gasoline/diesel fuel
• Antifreeze fluid
• Brake fluid
• Hydraulic fluid

• Battery acid
• Transmission fluid
• Mercury
• Solvents
• Lead
• Sodium azide in air bag detonators

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Bloodborne Pathogens
29 CFR 1910.1030
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Introduction to BBP

• Approximately 5.6 million workers are at risk
• human immunodeficiency virus (HIV the virus
  that causes AIDS)
• hepatitis B virus (HBV)
• hepatitis C virus (HCV)
• OSHAs Bloodborne Pathogens standard prescribes
  safeguards to protect workers against the health
  hazards from exposure to blood and other
  potentially infectious materials, and to reduce
  their risk from this exposure

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Who is covered by the standard

• All employees who could be reasonably
  anticipated as the result of performing their
  job duties to face contact with blood and other
  potentially infectious materials

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How does exposure occur

• Most common needlesticks
• Cuts from other contaminated sharps (scalpels,
  broken glass, sharp metal, etc.)
• Contact of mucous membranes (for example, the
  eye, nose, mouth) or broken (cut or abraded) skin
  with contaminated blood

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BBP Requirements

• Hazard assessment
• Written BBP exposure control plan
• Employee involvement in selection of safer
  medical devices
• Training

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Personal Protective Equipment 29 CFR
1910.132-.138

• Eye, face, body, hands, feet, airways
• Hazard Assessment
• Equipment Selection
• Training

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Eye/Face Protection

• When employees are exposed to
• Flying particles
• Molten metal
• Liquid chemical,
• gas, acid, vapors
• Injurious light radiation

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Welding Face/Eye Protection

• UV protection

Radiation Protection
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Protection of Feet/Toes

• Steel-toe boots, metatarsals
• Falling objects
• Rolling objects
• Objects that can pierce sole of foot
• Electrical

Lawnmower accident part of steel toe is beside
shoe foot owners toes were only bruised.
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Protection of Hands/Arms

• Gloves appropriate for the work being done
• Chemicals
• Lacerations
• Abrasions
• Punctures
• Electrical
• Thermal
• Arm protection

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Head and Body Protection

• Hard hat
• Apron

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Respiratory Protection

• To control occupational diseases cased by
  contaminated air, harmful dusts, fogs, fumes,
  mists, gases, smocks, sprays, or vapors.
• Respirator shall be provided by employers.
• Written respiratory protection program by
  employer.
  
• Respirator selection and evaluation.
• Medical evaluation
• Training
• Fit test
• Recordkeeping

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Respirator Cartridges
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PPE Training

• Employer shall provide training.
• Training must cover
• When PPE is necessary
• What PPE is necessary
• Proper wear, adjustment, care, disposal,
  maintenance etc.

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Machine Guarding

• 29 CFR 1910.211 Subpart O

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NO TONGUE GUARD
2 on IOSHAs Top-10 Hazards Cited list
(2)
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Work rest 1/8 ?
(8)
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Pulley guarding. 1910.219(d)(1)
(11)
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Lockout/Tagout 29 CFR 1910.147

• Control of hazardous energy
• Electrical
• Chemical
• Hydraulic
• Pneumatic

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LO/TO Requirements

• Energy Control Program
• Energy Control Procedures for each piece of
  equipment
• Devices used for locking out equipment
• Training of all employees

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Medical and First Aid
29 CFR 1910.151

• Availability of eyes and body wash facility
  within the work area for emergency use
• Caustic/corrosive chemicals

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Electrical Hazards 29 CFR 1910
Subpart S

• An average of one worker is electrocuted on the
  job every day
• There are four main types of electrical injuries
• Electrocution (death due to electrical shock)
• Electrical shock
• Burns
• Falls
• LOW VOLTAGE DOES NOT MEAN LOW HAZARD

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Electrical Burns

• Most common shock-related, nonfatal injury
• Occurs when you touch electrical wiring or
  equipment that is improperly used or maintained
• Typically occurs on the hands
• Very serious injury that needs immediate attention

Electrical burn immediately after accident
Same hand 72 hrs. later
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Grounding Path

• The path to ground from circuits, equipment, and
  enclosures must be permanent and continuous
• Violation shown here is an extension cord with a
  missing grounding prong

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Clues that Electrical Hazards Exist

• Tripped circuit breakers or blown fuses
• Tools, wires, cords, connections, or junction
  boxes
• GFCI that shuts off a circuit
• Worn or frayed insulation around wire or
  connection
• Too many cords plugged into a circuit
• Conductor is too small to carry the current
• Electrical cords wrapped around metal objects
  (ladder)
• Overhead power lines when working at heights
• Open junction boxes/cabinets

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Electrical Training
Train employees working with electric equipment
in safe work practices, including

• Deenergizing electric equipment before inspecting
  or making repairs
• Using electric tools that are in good repair
• Using good judgment when working near energized
  lines
• Using appropriate protective equipment

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Welding, Cutting, and Brazing 29 CFR 1910
Subpart Q

• Oxygen-fuel gas welding and cutting
• Arc welding and cutting
• Resistance welding

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Welding/Cutting/Brazing Hazards

• Fire hazards
• Combustibles
• Eye and face protection
• Respiratory protection
• Lead, other metals, emissions, byproducts
• Ventilation
• Protective clothing (including body and hands)
• Confined spaces
• Cylinders

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Compressed Gases

• Safety relief devices
• Protected from falling or machinery
• Legibly marked contents hazard identification
• Valve protection cap
• Oxygen stored away from fuel gases
• Limited amount than can be stored indoors
• Transportation of cylinders

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Confined Spaces(29 CFR 1910.146)

• Is large enough and so configured that an
  employee can bodily enter and perform assigned
  work and
• Has limited or restricted means for entry or
  exit and
• Is not designed for continuous employee occupancy.

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Permit Required Confined Spaces

• Hazardous atmosphere
• Engulfment hazard
• Internal configuration
• Contains any other recognized serious hazard.

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Noise(29 CFR 1910.95)

• More than 85 dBA needs hearing conservation
  program
• Audiometric testing
• Hearing protection
• Training
• Access to information on noise standard

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Additional Hazards

• Cranes overhead, gantry
• 29 CFR 1910.179
• Slings used for cranes
• 29 CFR 1910.184
• Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
• 29 CFR 1910.178
• Materials handling
• 29 CFR 1910.176
• Aisles clear, secure stacking, housekeeping

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Referrals to IOSHA and Fatality Notification to
IOSHA

• [phone]
• (317)-232-6300

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More Information on Safety and Health Hazards
Osha website www.osha.gov

• BuSET
• [phone]
• sghosh_at_dol.state.in.us
• (317)-233-9561
• www.buset.info

IDOL Web http//www.in.gov/labor/
Osha Phone [phone]
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Thank you