Chapter 1 - Hazard Analysis - doe-hdbk-1139-3-20050025

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Chapter 1 - Hazard Analysis

1.0 Introduction

This chapter identifies and consolidates existing user safety and health requirements found in DOE

and Federal chemical-related safety and health regulations and National Standards that address hazard

analysis of activities involving chemicals (see definition) and chemical products (see definition).

State and local codes and requirements are NOT included. This chapter specifically consolidates

requirements found in the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the American National

Standards Institute (ANSI), the Compressed Gas Association (CGA), the Occupational Safety and

Health Administration (OSHA), and certain Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and

Department of Energy (DOE) Rules and Orders, including technical standards that are made

mandatory by their specific reference within a regulation, rule or DOE Order.

This chapter is intended to list chemical-related safety and health requirements and to consolidate

those that are overlapping and/or duplicative. The list of requirements includes "pointers" to the

sources of those requirements.

This document does NOT create any new or additional requirements.

2.0 Applicability

The information presented here applies to all locations that use chemicals or chemical products.

[NOTE: Throughout this document, the term "chemicals" is used to indicate chemicals and/or

chemical products as described in Section 3, below.] This chapter is intended only to address safety

and health-related hazard and risk analysis requirements applicable to chemical user activities. It

consolidates existing, core safety and health requirements that all sites must follow when engaged in

chemical-related activities.

The requirements included in this chapter come from sources that have different safety purposes. As

a result, some of these requirements may not always be applicable to the work being performed at an

individual site or facility. It is the responsibility of each user to determine the applicability of specific

requirements to their work and how they are implemented. The reference sources for the

requirements included in this chapter can be used to determine the applicability of those requirements

to the work being performed.

3.0 Definitions and Acronyms

See Glossary.

4.0 Requirements for Chemical Hazard Analysis

Sources11

Consolidated Requirements 12

Hyperlinks to ANSI, CGA, and NFPA requirements provided here are for general information only, as they

require user subscription to a prescribed service in order to access these organizations' source requirements.

PL 91-596, section 6(a), the General Duty Clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, requires

employers to protect their employees from all recognized hazards in the workplace and is a general requirement

applicable to all operations/activities involving chemicals.