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Waste & RecyclingThe pre-entry briefing on the site safety and health plan

Before any activity starts on the site, the pre-entry briefing takes you through the site safety and health plan kept on the site: the hazards of each task, your protective equipment, monitoring, site control, decontamination and the emergency plan. You also learn the risks found on the site and the properties of the substances you will handle. It follows paragraph (b)(4) of the federal HAZWOPER rule.

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Scenarios

  • The first day on the site, before any activity begins.
  • New data from the site characterization change the plan, and another briefing is held.
  • A subcontractor crew arrives and is told the site emergency response procedures and the hazards already identified.

The steps

  1. Know who the site safety and health supervisor is: the person who develops and carries out the plan and verifies compliance.
  2. Attend the pre-entry briefing before any site activity starts.
  3. Go through the safety and health hazard analysis for each task and operation in the workplan.
  4. Check your training assignment and the medical surveillance requirements for your work.
  5. Know the protective equipment set for each of your tasks.
  6. Know how often and how the air, the workers and the environment are monitored and sampled.
  7. Review the site control measures, the decontamination procedures, the emergency response plan, the confined space entry procedures and the spill containment program.
  8. Before work starts, learn the risks identified on the site and the chemical, physical and toxicologic properties of the substances you will work with.

Safety rules that stop the station

  • The site safety and health plan is kept on the site.
  • No site activity starts before the pre-entry briefing.

To pass

  • Briefings before any site activity and whenever needed, so everyone knows the plan and the plan is followed.
  • The data from the site characterization are used to prepare and update the plan.
  • The site safety and health supervisor inspects how well the plan works, and the employer corrects any deficiency.

Official source

Federal · OSHA, 29 CFR 1910.120 (HAZWOPER)

29 CFR 1910.120, Hazardous waste operations and emergency response (HAZWOPER)

GovInfo publishes 29 CFR 1910.120 free: paragraph (b)(4) lists what the site safety and health plan covers and requires the pre-entry briefing.

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