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Fittings leaks on chlorine tank cars and tank trucks rarely occur. Should a leak occur, however, prompt corrective action is required by trained, competent personnel with special equipment to stop the leak until the contents can be unloaded safely. The proven equipment to meet this critical need for more than 40 years has been the Chlorine Institute Emergency Kit “C,” which is specifically...
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Community emergency response agencies should be integral components of the community ERP. The community-wide ERP should spell out specific roles and responsibilities for various organizations or agencies, and will state which function each agency is expected to play in the event of an emergency. The employer’s ERP may reference or otherwise include all or applicable sections of a LERP or SER...
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This section of the ERP lists the inventory of PPE and emergency response equipment and materials. The ERP must include instructions on how the PPE and equipment and materials are to be used, their limitations, and in what situations emergency responders will use them.
HAZWOPER requires the IC to be aware of the equipment and PPE available during an emergency. In addition, responders trained to the...
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ERPs are based on site-specific needs and experience. It is important to consider previous emergency incidents in preparing an ERP. It is just as important to consider new information, experience, and incidents with the goal of enhancing the effectiveness of the ERP and keeping it current.
Written procedures for the critique of an emergency response must be part of the ERP. Appropriate changes should...
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The plan must also address how employees will be informed that an emergency exists and how they should respond. The alarm system must inform “all affected employees” that an emergency exists and what their immediate response should be based on the alarm sequence.
There are three important questions that need to be addressed:(a) Who needs to be made aware of the emergency?(b) What do they...
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The plan must provide for advanced first aid support trained personnel. These personnel must be qualified Basic Life Support (BLS) personnel or better-trained personnel. BLS refers to a unique group of trained individuals (e.g., EMTs) who have received an established level of specialized training that exceeds basic first aid skills such as control of bleeding and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)....
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The ERP must contain provisions for decontamination of emergency responders leaving the exclusion zone. Individuals who will assist the responders as they leave the exclusion area must be trained in decontamination procedures. These individuals must wear PPE at the same level or one level below that worn by the emergency responders they are supporting, as appropriate to the hazards.
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All employees that are not trained in emergency response and who will not be needed during the response operation should be evacuated from the exclusion and decontamination zones. This aspect of the ERP should be in compliance with 1910.38 as described in Section XII.A.2. CSHOs must use 1910.38 as a model to evaluate the employer’s “evacuation routes and procedures.”
The CSHO shall...
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Areas surrounding the danger area must be controlled during emergencies by prohibiting unauthorized personnel from entering the emergency release area. Methods of excluding areas and defining various zones need to be addressed in the ERP.
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Safe places of refuge (out-of-doors or shelter-in-place) should be the areas where an accounting of all employees will be performed. This can be critically important for identifying individuals who did not get out, estimating where they may be, and initiating any rescue operation. Information on safe places of refuge must be given to the emergency response organization or emergency response team promptly....
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This is by FAR the most misunderstood element of all!
The ERP must define the types of releases that could potentially require an emergency response and should define what types of releases would not be an emergency, or, in other words, what may be handled as an “incidental release.”
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Personnel roles must be clearly defined in the ERP. One method of doing this is to list job titles and describe their projected roles in emergency response operations. Although specific HAZWOPER titles are not required, employees should be designated to assume duties that parallel 1910.120(q)(6) and must be trained accordingly.
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