# Presentation: 337070

**Alliance to Identify and Manage Chemical Reactivity Hazards**
- Dorothy Kellogg
- American Chemistry Council
- June 7, 2004 --- 1:30 p.m.

## Who Are These People?

## Reactive Chemical Incident

- A sudden event involving an uncontrolled chemical reaction with significant increases in temperature and/or pressure that has the potential to or has caused serious harm to people, property or the environment.

## CSB Study & Report

- Findings
- 167 incidents in 21 years
- 108 fatalities
- Significant property damage
- In over 90% of all incidents studies, the information necessary to have prevented the incident was documented and publicly available.

## CSB Recommendations

## Why an Alliance?

- Build on great CCPS work
- Response to CSB finding – problem not availability of information but tools for getting it and using it
- Immediate positive impact – get resources out to those who need them
- “Test drive” CCPS logic

## Parties to the Alliance

- Occupational Safety & Health Administration
- Environmental Protection Agency
- American Chemistry Council
- Center for Chemical Process Safety
- Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center
- National Association of Chemical distributors
- Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association
- The Chlorine Institute

## Purpose of the Alliance

- Provide information, guidance, and access to training resources to members, customers, contacts and others involved in the manufacture, distribution, use and storage of chemicals
_*Protect communities and employees *_
_*health and safety*_
_*Improve identification and *_
_*management of CRH*_

## Aims of the Alliance

_*Increase awareness*_ of the need to identify and manage CRH among those who manufacture, distribute, use and store chemicals;
- Provide CRH management _*information, methods and tools*_ to a variety of audiences in meaningful and useful forms to those audiences; and
_*Gain experience*_ in the use of methods and tools to continuously improve identification and management of CRH.

## Goals of the Alliance

- Training & Education
- Outreach & Communications
- Promoting National Dialogue

## Training & Education

- Jointly develop and deliver training addressing chemical reactivity hazards, to be delivered in conferences, meetings, OSHA Training Institute (OTI) Education Centers, or through distance learning. Examples:
- Electronic assistance resources (e.g., interactive software e-Tools, technology-based training)
- Training and materials for OSHA & EPA staff
- Customized tools for specific sectors, such as SMEs.

## Outreach & Communication

- Develop and disseminate information through print and electronic media
- make *Essential Practices *available in the open literature
- disseminate and encourage the use of *Essential Practices *to members and their value chains.
- Collaborate with other Alliances & parties on specific issues and projects as appropriate
- Deliver presentation at signatories conferences, meetings, events as appropriate

## Presentation Venue Examples

- ACC Responsible Care® Regional Meetings
- 2004 TCC EHS Seminar 
- AIChE Loss Prevention symposium
- CCPS International Conference
- SACHE Workshops
- NACD Operations Seminar & Trade Show
- SOCMA annual & regional meetings
- Chlorine Institute annual meetings
- MKOPSC annual symposium & short courses
- MKOPSC engineering seminars/course work

## National Dialogue

- Convene or participate in forums, round table discussions, or stakeholder meetings
- CCPS Reactives Roundtable
- Ongoing CSB dialogues
- Other

## Questions?

## So, Who Are These People?

## So, Who Are These People?

**Back row L-R: **
**James Kolstad, DACD**
**Kathleen Shaver, Chlorine Institute**
**Dr. Sam Mannan, Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center**
**Joseph Acker, SOCMA **** **
**Front row L-R**
**Greg Lebedev, ACC**
**John Henshaw, OSHA**
**Marianne Horinko, EPA**
**John Sofranko, AIChE**