Michigan Water Environment Association (MWEA)

1. Michigan Water Environment Association (MWEA) Industrial Pretreatment Program Seminar May 28, 2008

2. Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP) Perry M. Thomas YCUA Chief Compliance Officer

3. Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP) 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.

4. Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP) Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) Michigan Occupational and Health Administration (MIOSHA) Department of Transportation (DOT)

5. 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

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

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

8. Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP) Sampling: Hazards Assessment • Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) • Vehicle • Chemical • Facility

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)

13. PPE

14. PPE

15. PPE being used correctly • Tyvex Suit • Vinyl gloves • Foot wear • Safety Glasses

16. 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

17. Vehicle • Unsafe

18. Vehicle • Unsafe

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21. Vehicle • Safe way to conduct vehicle activity

22. 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.

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

24. Sampling at an Industrial User • Industrial Surveillance use portable samplers to collect representative composite samples

25. Sampling at a manhole

26. Portable Gas Monitor • Oxygen concentration • Explosive Level • Toxic concentration • Carbon monoxide concentration

27. Portable Gas Monitor • Calibration • Auto calibration demonstration • Manufacturer’s recommendation

28. Portable Gas Monitor • Check the concentrations of gases in your breathing space

29. 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.

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

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

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

33. Facility Inspection • Unsafe During the walk through use care on both stairs and ladders

34. Facility Inspection • Unsafe During the walk through use care on both stairs and ladders

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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.

38. 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.

39. Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP) Other types of representative sampling that IPP Personnel may have to sample. Such as Sanitary Sewer Overflows.

40. Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP) Other types of representative sampling that IPP Personnel may have to sample. Such as Sanitary Sewer Overflows.

41. Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP) All safety equipment and policies are only as good as the person using them.

42. Field Safety for Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP) Be safe all day, everyday.