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23Emergency Action Plan
- 29 CFR §1910.38 -
Does your company either:
(1) Seek an exemption from HAZWOPER's "emergency response by employees" provision (see page
15) by, among other obligations, providing an emergency action plan? OR, is your company;
(2) Required to comply with the Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals
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standard?
- If the answer to either of these questions is “yes," please continue.
Does your company:
_____
Maintain at the workplace and make available a copy of the emergency action plan, in
writing, unless the company employs less than 10 individuals (if less than 10, the plan may
be verbally communicated to employees)?
_____
Include the following elements in the emergency action plan:
• Emergency escape procedures and emergency escape route assignments?
• Procedures to be followed by employees who remain to operate critical plant
operations before they evacuate?
• Procedures to account for all employees after emergency evacuation has been
completed?
• Rescue and medical duties for those employees who are to perform them?
• The preferred means of reporting fires and other emergencies?
• Names or regular job titles of persons or departments who can be contacted for
further information or explanation of responsibilities under the plan?
• The type of evacuation to be used in emergency circumstances?
_____
Have an employee alarm system which complies with 29 CFR §1910.165?
_____
Designate and train a sufficient number of people to assist in the safe and orderly emergency
evacuation of employees?
_____
Review the emergency action plan with each employee when: the plan is first created,
whenever the employee's responsibilities under the plan change, and/or whenever the plan is
changed?
_____
Review with each employee, upon initial assignment, the portions of the plan which the
employee must know in order to protect him or herself in case of emergency?
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The Process Safety Management standard, found at 29 CFR
§1910.119, contains provisions which are designed to prevent or
minimize the consequences of a release of toxic, reactive,
flammable, or explosive chemicals.
The standard applies to
facilities
that
utilize
specified
chemicals
at
threshold
amounts.
Please contact ISSA for more information.
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