Worker Protection Management

DOE-HDBK-1139/3-2005

Sources11

Consolidated Requirements12

4.2.5

Worker Protection Management for DOE Federal and

DOE O 440.1A

Contractor Employees. Mandates an Industrial Hygiene

Program with surveys of all work areas and operations to

identify and evaluate potential health hazards through

appropriate workplace monitoring. A chemical inventory can

help to identify locations where chemical health hazards may

be present. Managers must ensure that applicable explosives

operations comply with DOE M 440.1-1. Requires

compliance with OSHA regulations (29CFR1910 and

29CFR1926).

4.2.6

Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals

29CFR1910.119

(PSM). Establishes requirements to protect workers by

preventing or minimizing the consequences of 1)

catastrophic releases of toxic, reactive, or flammable

chemicals used in quantities at or above specified thresholds

or 2) ignition of explosives in manufacturing processes.

Chemical tracking is needed to determine where threshold

quantities are exceeded. PSM also requires an employer to

keep process safety information on the chemicals used and

specify the maximum intended inventory of any listed

chemical.

4.2.7

Facility Safety. All new construction shall, as a minimum,

DOE O 420.1, Chg 3

conform to the Model Building Codes applicable for the

state or region, supplemented with additional safety

requirements associated with the facility hazards.

Inventories of chemicals must be tracked in order to ensure

that chemical limits specified in applicable regulations are

not exceeded.

4.2.8

Local Codes. Establish requirements for the prevention,

Local building and fire

control and mitigation of dangerous conditions created by

codes.

hazardous materials and for providing information needed

by emergency response personnel. Permits are required to

store, dispense, use or handle quantities of hazardous

materials exceeding listed permit amounts. The authority

having jurisdiction may require that a Hazardous Materials

Management Plan and/or Hazardous Materials Inventory

Statement accompany the permit. In addition, inventories of

chemicals must be tracked in order to determine whether or

not listed permit quantities of chemicals have been

exceeded. Each facility is responsible for determining the

applicability of their local building and fire codes.