OSHA: Occupational Safety & Health Administration Standards

Introduction

Course Objectives of OSHA Occupational Safety & Health Administration Standards

• Understand the role of OSHA in assisting Health and Safety improvement.
• Developing an appreciation of occupational health and health surveillance.
• Understanding how incidents happen, and the role of human factors.
• Developing skills for analyzing new and existing risk control measures and improving incident analysis techniques of pre and post-risk and incident management arrangements
• Apply the idea of inherently safe technology.

Course Outline of OSHA Occupational Safety & Health Administration Standards

Day 1

All about OSHA and Health & Safety

• Introduction.
• Health and Safety Drivers.
• An introduction to the OSHA Standards.
• OSHA Inspections.
• Health and Safety Policies and the Safety Management System.
• Risk Assessment.
• Group Work.
• Safe Systems of Work.

Day 2

Aspects of Occupational Health

• An introduction to Occupational Health.
• Chemicals
  • Health Hazards.
  • Physical Hazards.
  • Global Harmonisation System for Classification.
• Group Work.
• Hazard Communication (OSHA 1910.1200).
• Bloodborne Pathogens (OSHA 1910.1030).
• Sanitation (OSHA 1910.141).
• Noise (OSHA 1910.95).
• The role of Health Surveillance.

Day 3 

Work at Height & Confined Space Hazards

• Scaffolding (OSHA 1926.450).
• Portable Ladders (OSHA 1910.23).
• Work Permits & Hot Work Permits (OSHA 1910.119(k)).
• Lockout / Tagout (OSHA 1910.147).
• Permit-required confined spaces (OSHA 1910.146).
• Group Work.
• PPE (OSHA 1910.132).

Day 4

Process Safety

• The Fire Triangle.
• Fire Safety: Control measures and OSHA.
• The Fire Safety Risk Assessment.
• Flammable Liquids (OSHA 1910.106) – Tanks and API 620 etc. Tank Farms.
• Case Study: Tank Filling.
• Process Safety Management (OSHA 1910.119)
  • Background.
  • Details of the standard.
• HAZOP Studies.
• Group Work.
• The role of Inherently Safer Technology.
• Case Study; Refinery Disaster.

Day 5 

Incident Investigation and Startup and Dealing with Disaster

• Organisational Memory.
• Incident Investigation (OSHA 1910.119(m)).
• Human Factors in Accident Causation.
• Health and Safety Monitoring.
• Case Study: Human Factors.
• Process Safety Indicators ANSI / API RP 754.
• Process Startup – a riskier time
  • Operating Envelope.
  • Operating Procedures (OSHA 1910.119 (f)).
  • Pre-Startup Safety Review (OSHA 1910.119 (i)).
• Case Study: Emergency Response to disasters.
• Emergency Response (OSHA 1910.119(n)).
• Review.