Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-304 - Safety standards for ship repairing, shipbuilding and shipbreaking › Section 296-304-06013 - Hazardous materials

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
Definition.
Hazardous material.
A material with one or more of
				the following characteristics:
(a) Has
			 a flash point below 140°F, closed cup, or is subject to spontaneous
			 heating;
(b) Has a threshold limit
			 value below 500 p.p.m. in the case of a gas or vapor, below 500 mg./m.3 for
			 fumes, and below 25 m.p.p.c.f. in case of a dust;
(c) Has a single dose oral LD50 below 500
			 mg./kg.;
(d) Is subject to
			 polymerization with the release of large amounts of energy;
(e) Is a strong oxidizing or reducing
			 agent;
(f) Causes first degree
			 burns to skin in short time exposure, or is systematically toxic by skin
			 contact; or
(g) In the course of
			 normal operations, may produce dusts, gases, fumes, vapors, mists, or smokes
			 that have one or more of the above characteristics.
(1) No chemical product, such as a solvent or
			 preservative; no structural material, such as cadmium or zinc coated steel, or
			 plastic material; and no process material, such as welding filler metal; which
			 is a hazardous material may be used until you have ascertained the potential
			 fire, toxic, or reactivity hazards which are likely to be encountered in the
			 handling, application, or utilization of such a material.
(2) In order to ascertain the hazards, as
			 required by subsection (1) of this section, you must obtain the following items
			 of information which are applicable to a specific product or material to be
			 used:
(a) The name, address, and telephone
			 number of the source of the information specified in this section preferably
			 those of the manufacturer of the product or material.
(b) The trade name and synonyms for a mixture
			 of chemicals, a basic structural material, or for a process material; and the
			 chemical name and synonyms, chemical family, and formula for a single
			 chemical.
(c) Chemical names of
			 hazardous ingredients including, but not limited to, those in mixtures, such as
			 those in:
(i) Paints, preservatives, and
			 solvents;
(ii) alloys, metallic
			 coatings, filler metals and their coatings or core fluxes; and
(iii) other liquids, solids, or gases (e.g.,
			 abrasive materials).
(d)
			 An indication of the percentage, by weight or volume, which each ingredient of
			 a mixture bears to the whole mixture, and of the threshold limit value of each
			 ingredient, in appropriate units.
(e) Physical data about a single chemical or
			 a mixture of chemicals, including boiling point, in degrees Fahrenheit; vapor
			 pressure, in millimeters of mercury; vapor density of gas or vapor (air=1);
			 solubility in water, in percent by weight; specific gravity of material
			 (water=1); percentage volatile, by volume, at 70°F.; evaporation rate for
			 liquids (either butyl acetate or ether may be taken as 1); and appearance and
			 odor.
(f) Fire and explosion hazard
			 data about a single chemical or a mixture of chemicals, including flashpoint,
			 in degrees Fahrenheit; flammable limits, in percent by volume in air; suitable
			 extinguishing media or agents; special firefighting procedures; and unusual
			 fire and explosion hazard information.
(g) Health hazard data, including threshold
			 limit value, in appropriate units, for a single hazardous chemical or for the
			 individual hazardous ingredients of a mixture as appropriate, effects of
			 overexposure; and emergency and first-aid procedures.
(h) Reactivity data, including stability,
			 incompatibility, hazardous decomposition products, and hazardous
			 polymerization.
(i) Procedures to
			 be followed and precautions to be taken in cleaning up and disposing of
			 materials leaked or spilled.
(j)
			 Special protection information, including use of personal protective equipment,
			 such as respirators, eye protection, and protective clothing, and of
			 ventilation, such as local exhaust, general, special, or other types.
(k) Special precautionary information about
			 handling and storing.
(l) Any other
			 general precautionary information.
(3) The pertinent information required by
			 subsection (2) of this section must be recorded either on United States
			 Department of Labor Form LSB 00S-4, Material Safety Data Sheet, or on an
			 essentially similar form which has been approved by the department of labor and
			 industries. Copies of Form LSB 00S-4 may be obtained at any of the following
			 regional offices of the occupational safety and health administration:
(a) Pacific region. (Arizona, California,
			 Hawaii, and Nevada.) 10353 Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36017,
			 San Francisco, Calif. 94102.
(b)
			 Region X, OSHA, (Alaska, Washington, Idaho, and Oregon), 300 Fifth Avenue,
			 Suite 1280, Seattle, Washington 98104-2397.
A completed SDS form must be preserved and available for
				inspection for each hazardous chemical on the worksite.
(4) You must instruct employees
			 who will be exposed to the hazardous materials as to the nature of the hazards
			 and the means of avoiding them.
(5)
			 You must provide all necessary controls, and the employees must be protected by
			 suitable personal protective equipment against the hazards identified under
			 this section and those hazards for which specific precautions are required in
			 WAC
			 296-304-020
			 through
			 296-304-04013.
(6) You must provide adequate washing
			 facilities for employees engaged in the application of paints or coatings or in
			 other operations where contaminants can, by ingestion or absorption, be
			 detrimental to the health of the employees. You must encourage good personal
			 hygiene practices by informing the employees of the need for removing surface
			 contaminants by thorough washing of hands and face prior to eating or
			 smoking.
(7) You must not permit
			 eating or smoking in areas undergoing surface preparation or preservation or
			 where shiprepairing, shipbuilding, or shipbreaking operations produce
			 atmospheric contamination.
(8) You
			 must not permit employees to work in the immediate vicinity of uncovered
			 garbage and must ensure that employees working beneath or on the outboard side
			 of a vessel are not subject to contamination by drainage or waste from
			 overboard discharges.
(9)
			 Requirements of WAC
			 296-901-140,
			 Hazard communication, will apply to shiprepairing, shipbuilding, and
			 shipbreaking when potential hazards of chemicals and communicating information
			 concerning hazards and appropriate protective equipment is applicable to an
			 operation.