This instruction establishes policies and strategies to be followed when scheduling and conducting programmed regional emphasis inspections of seafood processing operations and related merchant wholesaler operations in two targeted North American Industry Classification System codes (NAICS):
- 311710,
- 311711 and
- 311712 Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging, and
- 424460 Fish and Seafood Merchant Wholesalers
These industries use temporary labor and staffing agencies. These industries also use outside contractors to conduct highly dangerous cleaning and sanitizing operations. This instruction establishes and implements a local emphasis program (LEP) for the purpose of scheduling and conducting inspections to address the hazards associated with seafood processing. Hazards associated with the seafood processing industry (NAICS codes 311710, 311711 and 311712) and merchant wholesale distribution of fish and seafood (NAICS 424460) continue to be a major source of severe injury and death to employees and include the following:
- lockout tagout,
- point of operation guarding
- confined spaces,
- operation of powered industrial trucks,
- falls in general industry,
- electrical hazards posed by working in wet environments,
- emergency response issues related to the storage and handling of anhydrous ammonia,
- respirator hazards related to emergency response,
- noise exposure,
- emergency egress,
- fire prevention,
- use of compressed air,
- welding hazards,
- personal protective equipment,
- lack of hazard communication program where hazardous chemicals are used,
- exposure to pressurized steam, and
- exposure to caustic chemicals.
Hazardous chemicals associated with seafood processing include, but are not limited to, ammonia, bleach, caustic cleaner, foaming caustic cleaner, iodine, chlorinated foaming detergent and hydraulic oil.
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are used, exposure to pressurized steam, and exposure to caustic chemicals. Hazardous
chemicals associated with seafood processing include, but are not limited to, ammonia,
bleach, caustic cleaner, foaming caustic cleaner, iodine, chlorinated foaming detergent
and hydraulic oil.