906 Oil Spill Cleanup

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Health and Safety Plans

The main goal of a safety and health program (SHP) is to prevent workplace injuries, illnesses, and deaths, as well as the suffering and financial hardship these events can cause for workers, their families, and employers.

Workers reviewing the Health and Safety Plan

Review your SHP before the start of the project.

Take a Proactive Approach

Traditional approaches are often reactive - that is, problems are addressed only after a worker is injured or becomes sick, a new standard or regulation is published, or an outside inspection finds a problem that must be fixed.

OSHA's recommended practices for SHPs that use a proactive approach to managing workplace safety and health that develops and deploys policies, programs, processes, procedures and practices that find and fix hazards before they cause injury or illness is a far more effective approach.

All Health and Safety Plans for oil spill cleanup should develop and deploy action plans for the following elements:

Introduction
Key Personnel
Hazard Assessment
Training
PPE
Temperature Extremes
Medical Surveillance

Exposure Monitoring and Air Sampling
Site Control
Decontamination
Emergency Response/Contingency Plan
Emergency Action Plan
Confined Space Entry
Spill Containment

Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.

1-2. What is the approach to safety when new programs are developed only after someone gets injured?

Reactive

Proactive

Compliant

Enforced

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