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Waste & RecyclingSite control: the map and the work zones

Before clean-up work begins, site control is in place: a site map with its work zones, the buddy system, site communications with the emergency alert, safe work practices and the nearest medical help. You learn where the hot zone, the decontamination zone and the clean zone are before you go in. It follows paragraph (d) and Appendix C of the federal HAZWOPER rule.

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Scenarios

  • The start of a clean-up, during its planning stages.
  • New information about the site comes in, and the site control program is modified.
  • An emergency response site with a command post and a medical assistance and triage area.

The steps

  1. Check that the site control procedures are in place before clean-up work begins.
  2. Read the site map.
  3. Find the work zone, or hot zone.
  4. Find the transition zone, or decontamination zone, with its decontamination area.
  5. Find the clean zone.
  6. Know the site communications, including how the emergency alert is given.
  7. Know the standard operating procedures or safe work practices of the site and how the buddy system is organized.
  8. Know where the nearest medical assistance is; at an emergency response site, also the command post and the medical assistance and triage area.

Safety rules that stop the station

  • Site control procedures are put in place before clean-up work begins.

To pass

  • A site control program with the site map, the work zones, the buddy system, communications with the emergency alert, safe work practices and the nearest medical assistance.
  • The program is developed during the planning stages and modified as new information about the site becomes available.
  • It is part of the employer's site safety and health program.

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 (d) sets the site control program and Appendix C names the clean, decontamination and hot zones.

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