Employee Participation - hdbk11010152

DOE-HDBK-1101-96

"Highly hazardous chemical" means a substance possessing toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive

properties and specified by paragraph (a)(1) of this section.

"Hot work" means work involving electric or gas welding, cutting, brazing, or similar flame or

spark-producing operations.

"Normally unoccupied remote facility" means a facility which is operated, maintained or serviced by

employees who visit the facility only periodically to check its operation and to perform necessary

operating or maintenance tasks. No employees are permanently stationed at the facility. Facilities

meeting this definition are not contiguous with, and must be geographically remote from all other

buildings, processes or persons.

"Process" means any activity involving a highly hazardous chemical including any use, storage,

manufacturing, handling, or the on-site movement of such chemicals, or combination of these

activities. For purposes of this definition, any group of vessels which are interconnected and

separate vessels which are located such that a highly hazardous chemical could be involved in a

potential release shall be considered a single process.

"Replacement in kind" means a replacement which satisfies the design specification.

"Trade secret" means any confidential formula, pattern, process, device, information or compilation

of information that is used in an employer's business, and that gives the employer an opportunity to

obtain an advantage over competitors who do not know or use it. Appendix D contained in

1910.1200 sets out the criteria to be used in evaluating trade secrets.

(c) Employee Participation.

(1)

Employers shall develop a written plan of action regarding the implementation of the

employee participation required by this paragraph.

(2)

Employers shall consult with employees and their representatives on the conduct and

development of process hazards analyses and on the development of the other elements of

process safety management in this standard.

(3)

Employers shall provide to employees and their representatives access to process hazard

analyses and to all other information required to be developed under this standard.

(d) Process Safety Information.

In accordance with the schedule set forth in paragraph (e)(1) of this section, the employer shall

complete a compilation of written process safety information before conducting any process hazard

analysis required by the standard. The compilation of written process safety information is to enable

the employer and the employees involved in operating the process to identify and understand the

hazards posed by those processes involving highly hazardous chemicals. This process safety

information shall include information pertaining to the hazards of the highly hazardous chemicals

used or produced by the process, information pertaining to the technology of the process, and

information pertaining to the equipment in the process.

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