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Safety In the Building Services

Industry

Joann Natarajan

OSHAAustin Area Office


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OSHA Laws that Affect This

Industry Aerial Lifts

Hazard Communication

Permit Required Confined Space Personal Protective Equipment

Bloodborne Pathogens

Respirators


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Aerial Lifts

Must be tied off with a

body harness/lanyard

when in basket

Required to have both

upper controls and

lower controls

Worker training


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Aerial Lifts

Workers feet to

remain on floor of

basket

Lift controls checked

each day before use


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Hazard Communication:

Whats the point? Purpose." (a)(1) To ensure that the hazards of all

chemicals produced or imported are evaluated, andthat information concerning their hazards istransmitted to employers and employees.

HazardCommunication

Program

ContainerLabeling

Material SafetyData Sheet

M.S.D.S.Program

Label


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The Basic Requirements Are:

(a)(2) This occupational safety and health standard

is intended to address comprehensively the issue of

evaluating the potential hazards of chemicals, and

communicating information concerning hazards and

appropriate protective measures to employees

Developing and maintaining a written hazard

communication program for the workplace

Lists of hazardous chemicals present;


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The Basic Requirements Are: Labeling of containers of chemicals in the

workplace,

Containers of chemicals being shipped to

other workplaces;

Preparation and distribution of material

safety data sheets to employees and

downstream employers;

Development and implementation of

employee training programs


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Hazard Communication. (e) "Written hazard

communication program."

Employers shall develop,

implement, and maintain at

each workplace, a writtenhazard communication

program which at least

describes how the

requirements for labels andother forms of warning,

material safety data sheets,

and employee information

and training will be met.

(f) "Labels and other forms

of warning."

(g) "Material safety data

sheets."

(h) "Employee information

and training."

Haz Com Program


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Hazard Communication.

A list of the hazardous chemicals known to be presentusing an identity that is referenced on the appropriatematerial safety data sheet (the list may be compiled forthe workplace as a whole or for individual work areas);and,

The methods the employer will use to informemployees of the hazards ofnon-routine tasks (forexample, the cleaning of reactor vessels), and thehazards associated with chemicals contained inunlabeled pipes in their work areas.

NOTE: The written program is your policy statementfor how the program will be implemented.

(e) "Written hazard communication program."(continued)


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"Multi-employer

workplaces."

The methods the

employer will use to

provide the otheremployer(s) information

on Haz Com, of any

precautionary measures

that need to be taken, to

inform the other

employer(s) of the

labeling system.

The employer may rely

on an existing hazard

communication program

(e) "Written hazard communication program."(continued)


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Hazard Communication. (e)(4) The employer shall

make the written hazardcommunication programavailable, upon request

(e)(5) Where employeesmust travel betweenworkplaces during aworkshift, i.e., their work iscarried out at more than

one geographical location,the written hazardcommunication programmay be kept at the primaryworkplace facility.


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Providing MSDSs

If you have workers that travel between sites

and use chemicals at those site, the employee

should have an MSDS in his vehicle to provide

to those other employers where he is bringingthe chemical to perform work.


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(f) "Labels and other forms of warning." Thechemical manufacturer, importer, or distributor

shall ensure that each container of hazardouschemicals leaving the workplace is labeled,tagged or marked with the following information:

Identity of the hazardous chemical(s);

Appropriate hazard warnings; and Name and address of the chemical

manufacturer, importer, or other

responsible party.


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Hazard Communication. (f)(5) Ensure that eachcontainer of hazardous

chemicals in the workplaceis labeled, tagged or markedwith the following

information: Identity of the

hazardous chemical(s)

contained therein; and,

Appropriate hazard

warnings, oralternatively, words,pictures symbols, orcombination thereof,


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Unlabeled Containers


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Labeling Systems

You can use a labeling system, but you

must train workers on the system. It is not

required to use a labeling system.


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Other Items that Must Have

Labels Equipment or machinery that contains achemical (like tanks) must be labeled to indicate

the name and hazard of the chemical contained.

Fuel tanks for internal combustion engines donot have to have labels.


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(g) "Material safety datasheets." Chemicalmanufacturers and

importers shall obtain ordevelop a material safetydata sheet for eachhazardous chemical theyproduce or import.

Employers shall have amaterial safety datasheet in the workplacefor each hazardouschemical which they use.


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(h) "Employee information and training."

Employers shall provide employees with

effective information and training on

hazardous chemicals in their work area at thetime of their initial assignment, and whenever

a new physical or health hazard the

employees have not previously been trained

about is introduced into their work area.


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What Are We Looking For in

Training? Employees need to know how to get and use theinformation they need to avoid chemical exposure.

They should know: Where is the MSDS book?

What are the hazards of the chemical they are using? How do they know what PPE to wear with a particular

chemical?

If the employee can not answer these questions, then

OSHA would argue training was not EFFECTIVE If workers do not speak and read English, training must

be the language they understand, and someone who is

bilingual must be available to translate MSDSs if they

have questions.


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Permit Required Confined Space

A Confined Space is:

Big enough to enter

Has limited means of

access/egress

Not designed for

continuous

occupancy


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Confined Space

A permit space is one that is a confined

space plus has a safety hazard (physical,

atmospheric, or mechanical)


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Confined Space

Typical confined

spaces are AHUs,

crawl spaces, tanks.

Spaces must beevaluated for the

potential to be permit

required confined

spaces


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Confined Space

Written program

Designated entrants

Air monitoring prior to entry Entry permit

Rescue and retrieval


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Personal Protective Equipment

(PPE)

Evaluate the

workplace, specify

PPE for each job

task. Train the workers on

when PPE is

required, and how to

don and use PPE

Workers must sign off

they were trained.


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Bloodborne Pathogens


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SCOPE

Applies to all occupational exposure to

blood or other potentially infectious

materials.


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Exposure Control

Written exposure control plan to include

the exposure determination, schedule and

methods of implementation of paragraphs

(d) to (h), procedure for the evaluation of

circumstances of exposure incidents.


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Exposure Control

Copy of written plan accessible to

employees.

U

pdated at least annually. Employer to determine who has exposure

and list job classifications and tasks and

procedures that involve occupational

exposure.


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Exposure Determination

Exposure determination to be made

without regard to the use of personal

protective equipment.


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Housekeeping What the Host

Employer is Supposed to Do

An appropriate written schedule for

cleaning and decontamination is required.

All equipment and environmental/workingsurfaces shall be cleaned after contact

with blood/OPIM and at the end of the

shift.


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Regulated & Non-Regulated Waste

Regulated waste shall be disposed of in

accordance with applicable state and

county regulations.

Non-regulated waste can be disposed of in

regular trash, however, it will contain

biohazardous materials. Wear gloves

when disposing of the trash in medicaloffices.


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Hepatitis B Vaccination

All employees with occupational exposure

shall be offered the Hep B series at no

cost within 10 days of employment.

Post exposure evaluation and follow up

shall be offered to employees

occupationally exposed to blood/OPIM.


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Hep B Vaccination

Employees can accept or decline the Hep

B vaccination series, if they decline, they

must sign the declination in Appendix A.

The employer shall not make participation

in a prescreening program a prerequisite

for receiving the Hep B series.


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Post Exposure Evaluation

A post exposure evaluation and follow up

must be immediately available to the

exposed employee.

If the source individual can be identified,

the source individuals blood shall be

tested if consent can be obtained and the

results released to the exposed employee.


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The employees blood shall be collected

and tested after consent is obtained.

Post exposure prophylaxis, counselingand an evaluation of reported illness shall

be made available to the exposed

employee.

Documentation of the routes of exposure,

and circumstances surrounding the

exposure incident, as well as the source

individuals


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and medical records relevant to the

employees treatment shall be provided to

the health care professional.

The health care professional shall provide

the employer with a written opinion, stating

if the employee has received the Hep B

vaccination.


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Communication of Hazards

Warning labels shall be

affixed to regulated

waste,

refrigerators/freezers

containing blood/OPIM,

and other containers.

Labels shall be orange,

with the biohazard

symbol. Red bags may be used

instead of labels.


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Training

Employees shall be trained upon

employment, and annuallythereafter.

Training to cover the regulation,epidemiology and symptoms, exposure

control plan, hazard recognition, PPE, Hep

B vaccine, post exposure and follow up

procedures, labeling, with an opportunityto ask questions.


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Training

The person conducting the training shall

be knowledgeable in the subject matter.

Training must be certified.


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Respirators

If respirators are given to workers-

They must be provided with NIOSH

approved equipment Worker must fill out the medical

questionnaire which is reviewed by a

physician

Workers must be trained


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