# Presentation: 498306

## Emergency Response

**Emergency Response**

**José A. Carpena, PE**
**Area Director**
**Puerto Rico Area Office**
**Occupational Safety and Health Administration**
**2005 SWRI Annual Meeting****	**

## Slide 2

## Workplace Emergency 

**An unforeseen situation that threatens your employees, customers, or the public, disrupts or shuts down your operations, or causes physical or environmental damage.**

## Types of Emergency

**Types of Emergency**

- • **Earthquakes**
**• ****Hurricanes**
**•**** ****Tornadoes**
**•**** ****Energy/utility outages**
**•**** ****Fire hazards**
**•**** ****Hazardous materials releases**
**•**** ****Terrorism**

## Workplace Emergency

**Employees must know how to report emergencies**
**"911" is a common method for reporting emergencies if external emergency personnel are used at your workplace**

**Workplace Emergency**
**Reporting and alerting emergencies**

## Workplace Emergency

**Workplace Emergency**
**OSHA’s Recordkeeping and Reporting**

** ****Fatality: ****Death of one or more employees from a work-related incident**
** ****Catastrophe: ****In-patient hospitalization of three or more employees as a result of a work-related incident**

## Emergency Preparedness

**Emergency Preparedness**
**Essential elements of emergency preparedness planning:**

- • **Identify hazards and assess risk.**
**• ****Assess capabilities and resources.**
**• ****Develop an emergency plan and procedures.**
**• ****Integrate the plan with the community plan.**
**• ****Conduct training.**
**• ****Public relations.**
**• ****Conduct Drills and Exercises.**
**• ****Develop Plan Audit Procedures.**

## OSHA’s Response Plans

**OSHA’s Response Plans**

** ****National Emergency Management Plan (NEMP)**
** ****Regional Emergency Management Plan (REMP)**

## OSHA’s Response to Emergency 

**OSHA’s Response to**** ****Emergency **

** ****To assist local response agencies in any way possible within agency capabilities (Non-enforcement)**
** ****To initiate workplace investigation (Enforcement)**

## Non-enforcement role vs. Enforcement

**World Trade Center after 9-11**

**Construction site**

## Incident Command System

**Incident Command System**

## OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry29 CFR 1926

**OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry****29 CFR 1926**

## OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry29 CFR 1926

**29 CFR 1926.23: First Aid and Medical attention, and**
**1926.50: Medical services and first aid**
**Procedures:**
**Ensure medical personnel is available for consultation and advice on occupational health matters**
**Provide suitable facilities for quick drenching and flushing of the eye**

**Training:**
**In the absence of readily accessible medical services, a person  with a valid certificate in first aid training**

**General Requirements for all Workplaces**

## OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry29 CFR 1926

**OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry****29 CFR 1926**

**Additional Requirements for Workplaces referenced in other standards**

**29 CFR 1926.35: Employee emergency action plan**
**Procedures:**
**Prepare and implement a written action plan that includes:**
**Emergency escape procedures**
**Procedures for those who remain to conduct critical operations**
**Means of reporting fires and emergencies**
**Procedures to account for employees after the emergency**

**Training:**
**Review emergency action plan with each employee when the plan is developed, responsibilities shift, or the emergency procedures change.**
**Provide specific training to employees who are expected to assist in evacuation**

## OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry29 CFR 1926

**29 CFR 1926.34: Means of egress**
**Procedures:**
**Maintain unobstructed egress from every building and structure where employees are working**
**Mark all exits with signs and mark access to exits where it is not immediately apparent how to exit**

**OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry****29 CFR 1926**

**General Requirements for all Workplaces**

## OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry29 CFR 1926

**OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry****29 CFR 1926**

**General Requirements for all Workplaces**

**29 CFR 1926.24: Fire protection and prevention,**
**1926.150: Fire protection**
**1926.151: Fire prevention**

**Procedures:**
**Develop fire protection program **
**Provide fire extinguishers and other firefighting equipment **
**Training:**
**If a fire brigade is necessary, adequately train them.**

## OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry29 CFR 1926

**OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry****29 CFR 1926**

**Additional Requirements for Specific Workplaces/Operations**

**29 CFR 1926.64: PSM of highly hazardous chemicals**
**29 CFR 1926.65: HazWoper, Emergency response to hazardous substance releases**

## OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry29 CFR 1926

**OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry****29 CFR 1926**

**Additional Requirements for Specific Workplaces/Operations**

**29 CFR 1926.651: Specific excavation requirements**
**Procedures:**
**Provide emergency rescue equipment when an excavation contains or potentially contains a hazardous atmosphere**
**Ensure that person(s) attend the equipment in case of emergency.**

**Provide and ensure the use of a safety harness and lifeline when employee(s) perform work in bell-bottom pier holes or similar deep and confined footing excavations**

## OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry29 CFR 1926

**OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry****29 CFR 1926**

**Additional Requirements for Specific Workplaces/Operations**

**29 CFR 1926.800: Underground construction**
**Procedures:**
**Develop and maintain a check-in/check-out procedure**
**Provide means to summon emergency assistance**
**Ensure monitoring is performed **
**Select, provide, and make available approved self-rescuers**

**Training:**
**Instruct employees on fire prevention and emergency procedures**
**Ensure rescue teams are familiar with jobsite conditions**
**Qualify rescue team members at least annually**

## OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry29 CFR 1926

**OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry****29 CFR 1926**

**Additional Requirements for Specific Workplaces/Operations**

**29 CFR 1926.950: Power Transmission and Distribution**
**Procedures:**
**Provide spotlights or portable lights for emergency lighting when needed to work safely at night**
**Training:**
**Provide training and ensure that employees understand emergency procedures and first aid fundamentals, including CPR**

## Exposure to silica dust in construction work 

**Exposure to silica dust in construction work **

## OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry29 CFR 1926

**OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry****29 CFR 1926**

**Requirements that Support Emergency Response and Preparedness       **

**29 CFR 1926.55: Gases, vapors, fumes, dust, and mists**
**Procedures:**
**Ensure that employee exposures do not exceed the limits provided by the standard.**
**Exposures should be limited through engineering controls, administrative controls, and, as a last resort, PPE**
**29 CFR 1926.59: Hazard Communication**
**29 CFR 1926.103: Respiratory Protection**
**29 CFR 1926.1103:  13 Carcinogens**
**29 CFR1926.1117: Vinyl chloride**

## OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry29 CFR 1926

**OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry****29 CFR 1926**

**Additional Requirements for Specific Workplaces/Operations**

**29 CFR 1926.60: Methylenedianiline (MDA)**
**Procedures:**
**Develop and implement a written plan for emergency situations where there is a possibility of an emergency:**
**Identify emergency escape routes before construction begins**
**Equipped employees with PPE and clothing until emergency is abated**
**Include elements prescribed in 1910.38 and 1910.39**

**Training:**
**Provide employees with info and training on MDA, IAW 1910.1200(h)**
**Ensure employees who must wear respiratory protection, receive training as per 1910.134**

## OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry29 CFR 1926

**OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry****29 CFR 1926**

**29 CFR 1926.1127: Cadmium**
** ****Wrecking, demolishing, and salvaging structures **
**Cutting, brazing, grinding, or welding**
**Procedures:**
**Develop and implement a written**
**plan **
**Select and provide appropriate respirators for emergencies**

**Training:**
**Provide training to include emergency procedures, prior to/at the time of initial assignment to a job involving potential exposure to Cd**
**Ensure employees who must wear respiratory protection receive training (29 CFR 1910.134)**

**Health Hazard Related Standards: Cadmium (Cd)**

**DANGER****...CADMIUM...CANCER HAZARD...CAN****CAUSE LUNG AND KIDNEY DISEASE...****AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY...RESPIRATORS****REQUIRED IN THIS AREA**

## OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry29 CFR 1926

**OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry****29 CFR 1926**

**Requirements that Support Emergency Response and Preparedness       **

**29 CFR 1926.28: Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)**
**29 CFR 1926.95: Criteria for PPE**
**Procedures:**
**Provide and ensure the use and maintenance of appropriate PPE for site operations and hazards**
**Ensure any employee-owned equipment is adequately and properly maintained**

## Emergency preparedness

**OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry****29 CFR 1926**

**For additional information on Emergency Preparedness, visit **
**OSHA’s web site at www.osha.gov                                                       **
**and select “Safety and Health Topics”**
** **
**Emergency preparedness**

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## OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry29 CFR 1926

**OSHA Requirements for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Construction Industry****29 CFR 1926**

**Methods for reducing asphalt fume exposure:**
**Substituting low fume asphalt**
**Isolate process and minimize generation of fumes**
**Control devices for reducing asphalt fume emissions**
**Training and education**
**Proper use of PPE**

**Health Hazard Related Standards: Asphalt Fumes**