Michigan Water Environment Association (MWEA)

Industrial Pretreatment Program

Seminar

May 28, 2008

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)

Perry M. Thomas

YCUA Chief Compliance Officer

Field Work- Work activities occurring outside of the typical office, indoor meeting room or conference room setting.

Purpose- To protect employees from physical, biological, and chemical hazards on the job by establishing work place practices that reduce the risk from exposure to such hazards.

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)

Michigan Occupational and Health Administration (MIOSHA)

Department of Transportation (DOT)

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)Michigan Occupational and Health

Administration (MIOSHA)

www.mi.gov/mioshastandards

Safety Education, and Training Division (SETD) (517) 322-1809

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)IPP Activities: Surveillance (Industrial) Sampling Inspections

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)Written Documents: Job Safety Analysis (JSA) Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Emergency Response Plan

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)

Sampling: Hazards Assessment Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) Vehicle Chemical Facility

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) –

Department of Labor General Industry Safety Standards Commission Safety Standards Part 33. Personal Protective Equipment (R408.13301 – R408.13398)

Department of Public Health Occupational Health Standards for Construction and for General Industry

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)PPE – all protection devices that workers use

on the job to protect themselves from: Physical injuries Chemical contact injuries Noise Temperature Radiation

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)

PPE – Gloves Apron Suits Foot wear – boots, waders Safety Glasses, Goggles, Face Shields, Head wear – hard hat, helmet Ear plugs Respirator – dust mask, half face , full face, Self Contained Breathing

Apparatus (SCBA) Personal Floatation Device

Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)

PPE

PPE

PPE being used correctly

Tyvex Suit Vinyl gloves Foot wear Safety Glasses

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)Vehicle – Safely operate a vehicle Operator License Maintenance- Check sheet, clean vehicle Vision – corrective lenses, nothing hanging from mirrors Hearing- no headphones Smoking – discouraged, company policy Food and beverages- discouraged Driving while impaired – physical impairment, prescription, alcohol,

illegal drugs Passengers – Company policy Traffic Laws

Vehicle Unsafe

Vehicle Unsafe

Vehicle Unsafe

Vehicle Unsafe

Vehicle Safe way to conduct

vehicle activity

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)Vehicle – Roadway safety – Michigan Manual of Uniform Traffic Control

Devices – Part 6 Short Term Duration Accident – Do not leave scene (except to receive medical attention),

notify the police, file accident report, follow company policy.

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)Chemical – Limit your exposure Reagent Bottles Sample Bottles Sampling Manhole/Provisions

Sampling at an Industrial User Industrial

Surveillance use portable samplers to collect representative composite samples

Sampling at a manhole

Portable Gas Monitor Oxygen concentration Explosive Level Toxic concentration Carbon monoxide

concentration

Portable Gas Monitor Calibration Auto calibration

demonstration Manufacturer’s

recommendation

Portable Gas Monitor Check the

concentrations of gases in your breathing space

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)Facility Inspections- Become as

knowledgeable as possible about the facility’s past and current site conditions.

Hazards Awareness- review files, facility’s written safety and workers right to know program, types of equipment on site, chemicals stored on site, physical condition of site. Arrange to tour the facility with someone who is familiar with the site.

Expect the unexpected – Hilo, horns, noise, etc.

Facility Inspection

Be sure you are knowledgeable about the chemicals stored or in use and their major hazards.

Facility Inspection

Be sure you are knowledgeable about the chemicals stored or in use and their major hazards.

Facility Inspection

Be sure you are knowledgeable about the chemicals stored or in use and their major hazards.

Facility Inspection

Unsafe

During the walk through use care on both stairs and ladders

Facility Inspection

Unsafe

During the walk through use care on both stairs and ladders

Facility Inspection Confined Space – do not enter unless trained

as; supervisor, attendant, or entrant, and following procedures.

Is large enough and so configured that an employee can bodily enter and performed assigned work

Has limited or restricted means for entry or exit

Is not designed for continuous employee occupancy

Facility Inspection Confined Space – Permit Required Confined

Space Contains, or has the potential to contain a hazardous substance Contains a material that has the potential for engulfing an entrant (corn in

silo). Has an internal configuration such that , an entrant could be trapped or

asphyxiated by inwardly converging walls or by a floor which slopes downward and tapers to a smaller cross section (water tower)

Contains any other recognized serious safety or health hazard

Facility Inspection Confined Space – Non-Permit Required

Confined Space A confined space that does not contain, or

with respect to atmospheric hazard, have the potential to contain any hazard capable of causing death or serious physical harm.

Facility Inspection Confined Space –An industrial user should

not have an IPP monitor manhole/provision in a confined space. Put language in your Sewer Use Ordinance to prohibit this.

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)

Other types of representative sampling that IPP Personnel may have to sample. Such as Sanitary Sewer Overflows.

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)

Other types of representative sampling that IPP Personnel may have to sample. Such as Sanitary Sewer Overflows.

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)

All safety equipment and policies are only as good as the person using them.

Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP)

Be safe all day, everyday.