# Presentation: 814145

## CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT OHSAS TRAINING

**June 2005**
**COURSE **
**TQ-SAFEWARE **
**(Reducing Injuries and Accidents in the Workplace)**
**COURSE**
**Awareness training for OSH**

## Part I:  Reducing Injuries and Accidents in the Workplace

## Provide a safe and healthy workplace by:

- 1. Manage programs to protect employee and public health
- 2. Meet all applicable laws and regulations
- 3. Integrate hazard prevention, reduction and compliance in our planning and decision making
- 4. Minimize, mitigate, control or eliminate risks/vulnerabilities of research/operations
- 5. Continually improve our health and safety problems

**BNL has implemented an Environmental, Safety, Security and Health ****Policy**

## O - Occupational           

- BNL has decided to improve safety by implementing a program similar to EMS and become registered under the OHSAS 18001 standard by an outside organization
- This is NOT EMS or ISM
- This is a BNL initiative, no external drivers

**O**** - Occupational           **
**H**** – Health and**
**S**** - Safety**
**A**** - Assessment**
**S**** - Series**

## OHS Management System: structured program under which BNL plans, implements, controls, monitors and continually improves the way we assess and reduce risk of injury and accident in the workplace.

- The system embodies **ISM**
- OHSAS developed by international group/establishes elements needed for an effective management system to achieve safety and health goals (OHSAS 18001)
- The system is parallel to **EMS** (ISO 14001)
- OHSAS registration is an ongoing process, an independent auditor periodically audits BNL and our OHSAS system to verify it meets OHSAS 18001 requirements
- Same registrar for OHSAS and EMS

## Benefits that have been shown to occur for OHSAS-registered organizations are:

- Reduced equipment and tool damage
- Reduced work delays and interruptions from accident investigations
- Lower worker compensation, medical and legal costs
- Reduced risks of regulatory fines
- Restored confidence by DOE, staff and community in our ability to manage our safety and health activities
- Much of the benefit is attributed to greater employee awareness and involvement in the safety and health process.
**You and your co-workers will be safer and have a healthier work environment**

## Implementation Involves:

- Risk analyses for high risk activities/areas (**JRAs/FRAs**)
- Engineering/administrative controls to reduce/eliminate risks
- Training on roles/responsibilities regarding hazardous work
- Involvement of employees in hazard identification/risk assessment (Employees who do the work identify the hazards)
**Implementation in C-A led to changes in**:
- cable-pulling work; removing and adding cables to trays
- vacuum system work; bake-out of accelerator vacuum system
**Implementation in Plant Engineering/Central Fab. led to**:
- Changes to welding operations
- Guidance for paint removal operations

## Your role:

- Consider how your actions affect others
- Comply with all safety regulations
- Communicate your concerns with co-workers supervisors, managers
- Participate in risk assessment processes, safety assessments
- Ensure those working with and for you have work specific training
- Ensure those working for you and with you are qualified and not just trained for their tasks
- Qualification involves verification of skills, experience and confidence to perform the hazardous tasks

## Consequences of unsafe or non-compliant work:

- Resource impact
-       a. consumption of YOUR time correcting the problem
-       b. personnel injury or illness, **$$$** for worker
-          compensation and/or medical treatment
- Regulatory fines
- Operations shut down temporarily or permanently
- Loss of trust with DOE, the community, regulators, and partners
- Disciplinary action, up to and including termination

## Part IIA:  OHSAS Implementation Details

**Part IIA:  OHSAS Implementation Details**

## JRAs (Job Risk Assessments) define risks and assign probability

- JRAs involve reviewing the actual job as carried out by the worker
- JRAs involve viewing each task, describing hazards and controls and describing:
- the **frequency** with which it is done
- the **severity** of the worst possible accident
- The **probability** of that accident happening.
- Then the number is multiplied by the number of people required to carry out that task.  This gives an estimate of the risk involved.

## Example of a JRA from C-A

## Examples of Chemistry JRAs-the link is on the Operations Page

##     hazards and controls in: 

-     **Integrated Safety Management** is implemented
-     through Work Planning and Control by defining
-     hazards and controls in:
- ESRs
- Work Permits
**Hazards and Controls** are then verified by Tier I inspections
**Working Safely** is verified by JRAs

** **

** **

** **

**Part IIB: OHSAS Audit**

** **

** **

-      **OHSAS Audit**: The registrar evaluates OSH system at:
- the Laboratory level
- the Department level
- the work area level
- Audits typically involve:
- review of documents
- facility walkthroughs
- interviews at all levels of the organization
- review of jobs and hazards in the field
- verifying ESRs/Work Permits are reviewed and approved
- verifying that ESRs/Work Permits are followed
- verifying everyone knows the ESSH policy

## Management interviews focus on: 

**Management**** **interviews focus on:
-   OSH objectives and targets
-   roles and responsibilities
-   resources associated with the OSH system
**Staff**** **interviews focus on:
-   awareness of the ESSH policy (written policy in lobbies of bldgs, on web)
-   awareness of job risks (ESRs/JRAs)
-   how staff learn about requirements (meetings, emails)
-   training and communication
-   corrective and preventive action (Tier 1)
-   integration of ISM and work planning with
-      JRAs

## YOUR responsibilities to the OSH Program:

**YOUR responsibilities to the OSH Program:**
**Comply** with Laboratory policies, standards, procedures
**Maintain**** **your training up-to-date
**Identify** hazards and impact of work
**Provide** input on controls/work practices to minimize risk
**Apply** risk minimization techniques to your work
**Respond** to emergency situations, alarms, or occurrences as appropriate
**Verify** work specific training of co-workers
**Participate** in risk assessment processes, safety assessments
**Ensure** those working for you and with you are qualified and not just trained for their tasks

## Emergency Response:

- Be prepared:
- complete training
- know the indoor assembly, outdoor assembly, and shelter-in-place areas
- In an actual emergency:
- activate alarms
- report the emergency - call 911 (2222)
- report to the outdoor assembly area if the building alarm bell sounds
- report to indoor assembly if the steady site siren signal sounds

## Know the answers to:

- What is the ESSH policy?
- What are your responsibilities with regard to the OSH program?
- How do we prevent injuries?
- How do you find out about new OSH requirements?
- How do we identify and control OSH risks?
- What is a Job Risk Assessment?
- How can you express your concerns about OSH to management?
- How is OSH integrated with ISM?