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Safety Management
Current Issues
Spring 2007
SUSTAINABILITY
• Components
– Economic growth
– Environmental integrity and performance
– Social equity
ISO: International Standards Organization
DJSI: Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Global Reporting Initiative http://www.globalreporting.org/Home
SUSTAINABILITY
• Environmental Performance (Eco-efficiency) and
Environmental Reporting
– Total GHG emissions (CO2)
• Other GHG (CH4, N2O, HFC, PFC, SF6)
– Total water use
– Total energy consumption
– Total waste generation
(www.theclimateregistry.org)
SUSTAINABILITY
• Economic Indicators (DJSI)
– Codes of Conduct / Compliance / Corruption & Bribery
– Corporate Governance
– Risk and Crisis Management
SUSTAINABILITY
• Social Indicators (concept is evolving – no current
standard definition under ISO)
“How does an organization establish internal
procedures that create wealth and improve society?”
– Corporate Citizenship / Philanthropy
– Labor Practices (Health and Safety)
– Human Capital Development
– Talent Attraction & Retention
Rutgers Sustainability Activities
• University Sustainability Committee
• Recyclemania
• Sustainable Design criteria
• Alternative Fuel Vehicles
– Natural Gas
– Biodiesel (B-20)
• Sustainable Purchasing Program
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Recycled paper
Green cleaning chemicals
Computers (EPEAT standard)
Furniture RFP
Pandemic Flu Planning
• Pandemic Sheltering Group
– Formed under EOC (includes Housing, Dining, Res. Life, etc)
– Estimate need for food, shelter, quarantine, or medical isolation
– Define current maximum surge capacity
– Selection of suitable locations
– Plan for provision with expectation of 40% absenteeism
– Ensure needed supplies
– Sheltering plan as prototype for other situations
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
Louis Pasteur
EPA Self Audit Program
• Systematic audit of environmental requirements
• Disclose violations
• Correct all violations
• Prevent recurrence of future violations
– Universal waste (storage & labeling)
– Stormwater (grounds maintenance)
– SPCC inspections
Oil Spill – Busch Campus
Oil Spill – Busch Campus
Oil Spill – Busch Campus
Unit Safety Committees
• Promote employee involvement
• Performance measures
– “Leading” indicators (predictors of performance)
– Different from traditional institutional performance indicators
– List in handouts
• Assessing incidents for “Preventability”
Assessing Incidents-Preventability Scale
• Should this have been prevented or avoided?
• Rate incidents - Scale of 1 – 5
– 1
Unit / employee are not at fault
– 2
Cause was hard to detect
– 3
Foreseeable with diligence
– 4
Recognizable by a reasonable individual
– 5
Obvious hazard or safety procedure ignored
Accident Preventability Chart
No Fault
Preventable
- Not Clearly
Recognized
Hazard
Preventable
by trained
employee
(3)
Preventable
by any
reasonable
person
Clearly
Preventable
(5)
Pursuit of
suspect
slipped on ice
(RUPD)
Instructor
struck by
student
(DDDC)
Cut finger
while cutting
meat (Dining)
Struck tree
stump while
driving cart
(Golf Course)
Struck in
head by
bucket while
moving
scissor lift
(FOS)
Stopped in
traffic,
another
vehicle struck
rear of van
(FOS)
Automatic
door struck
employee
while entering
building (Life
Sci.)
Employee
strained back
while moving
stove
(Housing)
Employee cut
finger with a
glass smoke
tube (REHS)
Debris in eye
while working
overhead (all
depts)
(1)
IAQ STANDARD - REQUIREMENTS
• Designate a person
responsible for compliance
– Must be familiar w/ req.
• Establish PM program
– Meeting manufacturer's
recommendations or by
following accepted practice
• Compliance Program
– Check HVAC when temp/CO2
exceed specified parameters
– Install controls if maintenance
activities (or other sources)
create condition above PEL
– Relocate inlets/exhaust if
contamination of OA identified
• Employee Complaints
– Investigate promptly
• Written Plan
– Must describe how
compliance will be achieved
– Annual review of program
• Control of Microbial Growth
– Visual inspections of HVAC
and other systems
– Prompt repair or continue
assessment until repair is
completed
– Clean up/drying/removal of
wet materials within 48 hours
IAQ STANDARD - REQUIREMENTS
• Recordkeeping
– Required for any work to
HVAC or bldg systems
– Must include date of service
and name person or company
performing work
– Maintain records for 3 years
– Must be provided to employee
upon written request within
10 working days
• PEOSH Complaints
– Respond to complaint within
15 working days
– Provide other documents, per
request (such as as-built,
testing/balancing reports,
manuals, etc.
• Renovation Work
– Prevent infiltration of
contaminants
– Review MSDSs prior to
determination of products
used & nature of controls
– Work area shall be cleaned
and ventilated, as necessary,
prior to reoccupancy
– 24 hour notice to employees
if work may introduce
contaminants into occupied
area
• Smoking
– Section removed
Electrical Standard – 1910 Subpart S
• OSHA promulgated revised
electrical standards
(subpart S)
– Effective date 8/13/07
– PEOSH must adopt within 6
months (2/13/07)
– Used NFPA 70E 2002 as guide
– Utilities operation exempt
(comply with power
distribution std)
• Work Practices vs.
Installation
– Predominantly, will affect how
we do electrical work
• Installations
– Generally, we are compliant
• State DCA Codes
• Standard states NJ meets
1999 NEC codes
– Must update installation if
overhaul to equipment
(similar to code upgrades for
renovation projects)
– Prohibition on using ground
terminals/devices for any
other purpose
– Must label equipment
• Magnitude, approach
distance and hazard
information
Requirements for Work Practices (Subpart S)
• For any work on equipment
w/ exposed live parts
– Lo/To will eliminate need
• Must assess task for
hazard and need for PPE
– How is up to employer
– Shock and flash hazard
analysis
• PPE – Equipment
– Based on assessment
– Gloves, eye/face protection,
hearing protection, head
protection, etc
• PPE – Clothing
– May need to change uniform
• Current clothing not
adequate for all work
performed
• Provide rated shirts,
pants, coveralls, jackets,
etc.
• GFCI required for all
maintenance work
• No 3/2 prong adapters
“To achieve excellence,
you must first prepare to excel
and then,
commit to excel.”