planning & executing a successful industrial hygiene program

Planning and Executing a Successful Industrial

Hygiene Program

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Meet Your Presenter

Mark LiffersPractice Director of EH&S Consulting

“Industrial Hygiene is a science and

art devoted to the anticipation,

recognition, evaluation, prevention, and

control of those environmental factors

or stresses arising in or from the

workplace which may cause sickness,

impaired health and well being, or

significant discomfort among workers

or among citizens of the community.”

-American Industrial Hygiene

Association

AgendaWhy is an Industrial Hygiene (IH) Program Needed?

Essential Elements of an IH Program

Considerations for Getting Started

Defining Roles and Responsibilities

Chemical Exposure Monitoring

Summary/Q&A

Why is an IH Program

Needed?

General Industry Standards• Recordkeeping– Occupational

Injury and Illness

• Subpart D--Walking and Working Surfaces

• Subpart E--Means of Egress

• Subpart F--Powered Platforms

• Subpart G- -Occupational Health and Env Control

• Subpart H--Hazardous materials

• Subpart I--Personal Protective Equipment

• Subpart J--General Environmental Controls

• Subpart K--Medical and First Aid

• Subpart L--Fire Protection

• Subpart M -- Compressed Gas

and Compressed Air Equipment

• Subpart N -- Materials Handling

and Storage

• Subpart O -- Machinery and

Machine Guarding

• Subpart P -- Hand and Portable

Powered Tools and Other Hand-

Held Equipment

• Subpart Q -- Welding, Cutting, and

Brazing

• Subpart R -- Special Industries

• Subpart S -- Electrical

• Subpart Z -- Toxic and Hazardous

Substances

• Recordkeeping– Occupational Injury and Illness

• Subpart D--Walking and Working Surfaces

• Subpart E--Means of Egress

• Subpart F--Powered Platforms

• Subpart G- -Occupational Health and Env Control

• Subpart H--Hazardous materials

• Subpart I--Personal Protective Equipment

• Subpart J--General Environmental Controls

• Subpart K--Medical and First Aid

• Subpart L--Fire Protection

• Subpart M -- Compressed Gas

and Compressed Air Equipment

• Subpart N -- Materials Handling

and Storage

• Subpart O -- Machinery and

Machine Guarding

• Subpart P -- Hand and Portable

Powered Tools and Other Hand-

Held Equipment

• Subpart Q -- Welding, Cutting,

and Brazing

• Subpart R -- Special Industries

• Subpart S -- Electrical

• Subpart Z -- Toxic and

Hazardous Substances

General Industry Standards

Non-Regulatory Standards, Guidelines and Requirements

• American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH)

• ANSI/AIHA

• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

• Industry Best Practices – ISPE’s ADEs

• Workers Compensation Insurance

• Liability Insurance

Public Relations and Reputation






Summary/Q&A

Poll Question

1

3

How would you describe your Industrial Hygiene

program?

Define the Purpose

“This program is intended to help ensure the health and safety of our employees, contractors others who

visit our site”

“To meet regulatory requirements”

“To meet our Global Corporate Health and Safety goals”

Define the Scope

“This program applies to all of our activities at our manufacturing and

service”

“This program applies to all North American contractors and

subcontractors”

Program Elements

• Bloodborne Pathogens

• Confined Spaces (exposure evaluation portion)

• Noise/Hearing Conservation

• Hazard Communication/Laboratory Standard

• Chemical-Specific Standards Hex Chromium, Lead, Benzene, etc.

• Personnel Protective Equipment (PPE)

• Respiratory Protection

A WIDE RANGE THAT CAN INCLUDE:

• Ionizing Radiation

• Non-Ionizing Radiation

• Optical radiation

• Biological Safety

• Ergonomics

• Hot and Cold environments

• Emergency Response

Program Elements

• Unusual work schedules

• Electromagnetic fields

• Work in high or low pressure environments

• And more!

Program Elements






Summary/Q&A

Where to Start?

• What are your potential and actual issues of concern?

• What does management want?

• What are the EHS/IH norms for your industry?

Define the Priority Issues

• Baseline Exposure Assessment

• Risk-Based (Typically Qualitative)

Category Exposure Rating

0 No contact with agent

1 <10% Exposure limit

2 10% Exposure limit to action level

3 Action level to exposure limit

4 >Exposure limit

Exposure Rating (Chemical)

NOTE: The Exposure Rating should be determined excluding the use of PPE.

Health Effect Rating

Category Health Effect Rating

1 No known or suspected adverse health

effects

2 < Moderate, reversible injury/illness

3 Moderate, reversible injury/illness

4 Life threatening or irreversible

injury/illness

Frequency Rating

Category Frequency Rating

1 >Yearly to quarterly contact

2 Quarterly to monthly contact

3 Monthly to weekly contact

4 Weekly to daily contact

Risk RankingAssign a Qualitative Exposure

Assessment Rating by multiplying the

numbers obtained from Tables 1, 2 and 3.

Assign a Priority Rating:

• 11+ = High Priority

• 5-10 = Medium Priority

• 1-4 = Low Priority

Risk Ranking Matrix# HAZARD Hazard Classification before

Mitigation

Exposure Health Frequency

Rating ACTIONS and COMMENTS

1

Methylene

Chloride 3 3 4 36

2 Nuisance

Dust 1 1 4 4

Use the Risk Ranking Matrix to:

• Identify and evaluate recognized potential worker health risks

• Prioritize future quantitative evaluation, monitoring, or sampling

• Communicate information to line management and affected employees regarding recognized chemical, physical, and biological exposure hazards and controls

• Identify and characterize similar exposure groups (SEGs) in a work area

The Industrial Hygiene Plan• Risk and compliance based

• Clearly established goals and objectives• EHS staff

• Line organization

• Identified individual responsibilities and time-frame for completion

• Communicated throughout the organization

• Objective and meaningful program metrics

• Senior management review and feedback






Summary/Q&A

Poll Question

3

0

Are you responsible for more than Industrial

Hygiene at your facility?

Roles and Responsibilities

Senior Management

• Ultimate responsibility and accountability for the safety performance of the company

• Policy, guidance and oversight for the program

• Provide human and financial resources

Roles and ResponsibilitiesIndustrial Hygienist (IH, CIH)

• Assist in the development of the IH program• Approve the program as meeting generally

accepted IH standards of practice• Conduct annual program reviews, ongoing oversight

of the program

• Verify personnel conducting monitoring are properly

qualified to perform the activities assigned

• Verify the quality of exposure evaluations and monitoring

is acceptable

• Provide recommendations based on assessments

• Develop annual exposure evaluation plans

Site Supervisors and Managers

• Understand the potential health hazards of the work being done and in the areas worked

• Evaluate potential health hazards as part of a pre-job safety review

• Ensure workers are aware of the potential hazards and the controls

• Request assistance from safety or IH personnel as needed in evaluating conditions


Roles and ResponsibilitiesSite Safety Personnel

• Maintain a basic level of IH hazard awareness

• Evaluate jobs for potential health hazards utilizing prior training, PPE assessments, and exposure evaluations

• Request assistance from an IH as needed for evaluations or monitoring

• Ensure controls needed to minimize exposures remain effective


All Employees

• Understand the potential health hazards of the materials being worked with or around

• Utilize proper PPE consistent with Hazard Communication and PPE training

• Report any problems or concerns to the supervisor






Summary/Q&A

• Technology to evaluate exposure has evolved to a high degree Passive dosimetry

Direct reading instrumentation

• Exposure levels in the workplace vary considerably with location and time

• Measurements integrated over a full work shift and taken repeatedly for a similar work situation can often show 10-fold variations from one day to another


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TWA (Time Weighted Average): The calculated amount of a substance an employee may be

exposed to over an 8 hour work day

Working with an IH LabAIHA Accreditation

• Make sure the lab is accredited for the work you need to do!

• Always follow established procedures and SOPs.

• When in doubt, call the lab!

Calibration and Quality Control

• ALWAYS keep careful records!

• ALWAYS conduct pre and post calibrations!

Chain of Custody

• Keep careful records!

• Make copies/scan for your records

VARIABILITY

• May be temporal, spatial, temperature dependent, etc.

• Designing a sampling strategy that accounts for variability and

gives an accurate description of the exposure distribution for

any situation is very challenging

• Sampling plans and strategies should account for the variability

of the exposure, and ensure that statistically valid results are

obtained

• Decisions made as a result of “ONE SAMPLE” can often be

misleading!!

Variability






Summary/Q&A

Summary/Conclusion

Industrial Hygiene is a multi-faceted discipline that

involves science, engineering, medicine, toxicology, and

solid management to achieve the goal of protecting

worker health.

A Risk Based approach is often the most efficient and

effective means to identify and prioritize actions.

Industry processes and IH technology are constantly

changing and evolving – so we need to keep up!

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References• American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH)

“Guide to Occupational Exposure Values” and “Threshold Limit Values for

Chemical Substances and Physical Agents & Biological Exposure Indices”

• American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) Qualitative Exposure

Assessment Process

• International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) Risk-

MaPP assessment process

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Technical

Manual and Analytical Methods

• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

Sampling Guide

• OSHA 29CFR 1910

• OSHA 29CFR 1926