Evaluation of Safety and Environmental Metrics for Potential Application at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities (2009) / Chapter Skim
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• Review and evaluate existing safety and environ When Congress mandated the destruction of the mental metrics employed at CMA facilities, chemical weapons stockpile, it specified that destruc- • Examine commercial and industrial operations for tion operations must be executed with maximum pro- potentially applicable safety and environmental tection for the workers, the public, and the environment. metrics, and In the initial years of disposal operations, the National • Assess new initiatives at national organizations Research Council's longtime Committee on Review (i.e., National Safety Council, Occupational and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Dis- Safety and Health Administration, etc.)
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Further, they operating Chemical Materials Agency chemical agent fail to include some essential information such as the disposal facilities has continuously improved and is task being performed when the injury occurred and the currently significantly better than the national average location within the facility where it took place. industry as measured by lost workday cases and the recordable injury rate.
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are a sign of a positive ical agent disposal facilities are based on the formal safety culture -- for instance, 100 percent compliance in written notification that an applicable statutory or regu- wearing personnel protective equipment; 100 percent latory requirement promulgated by the Environmental compliance with correct use of lockout and tag out Protection Agency or other authorized federal, state, procedures; and the documented participation of maninterstate, regional, or local environmental regulatory agement in the safety and environmental programs. agency has been violated.
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The chemical agent disposal should be identified from the best practices for decom- facilities should consider developing and implementmissioning and decontaminating industrial facilities ing leading and lagging metrics for process safety. and for the Environmental Protection Agency's Super- They should consider using the American Institute fund program.
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