Environmental Health & Safety Orientation

Spring 2014

Our Purpose – YOU!!!Communicate the potential hazards found on Campus and at Home to keep you; our visitors, students, faculty, and staff safe & healthy while protecting our natural resources and living in a sustainable manner.

Check out these links to find out more:• Environmental Health & Safety Website

• Wright Way Policy, 6000 Series

The Emergency Action PlanTo help you and others respond to emergency situations:

1. The WSU Telephone book, pages 2-6

2. Budget Planning & Resource Analysis www.wright.edu/bpra/em/

3. WSU: Environmental Health & Safety www.wright.edu/admin/ehs/

Those living in residence halls or university-owned housing, emergency procedures are located: http://www.wright.edu/housing/getting_started/emergency.html

The Emergency Action Plan

It is your supervisor’s responsibility to inform you of your area-specific procedures. It is your responsibility to know and understand these duties and how to respond to emergency situations.

1.) Know how Emergency Notifications are issued2.) Know where to go to seek shelter or to evacuate3.) Have a method of headcount for your area, office, or class room4.) Have a way to summon help or to communicate SOS

Six Ways to Summon Help:

1. Emergency Telephones

Found in each Building to communicate with WSUPD Dispatch

Provides automatic communication to University Police

Six Ways to Summon Help:

Communicate with WSUPD Dispatch

Located in remote locations, and parking lots.

Provide communication to WSUPD Dispatch.

2. Outdoor Emergency Call Boxes

Six Ways to Summon Help:

3. Telephones:

Located in offices, departments, and hallways

Dialing 911connects WSUPD Dispatch

Six Ways to Summon Help:

4. Personal Cell PhoneCall 775-2111 for WSUPD Dispatch

. . . 911 from your cell will slow emergency response! Always heed the “no service” or poor reception areas. Practice “ICE#1, ICE#2, etc. And have an alternate means during an emergency.

Six Ways to Summon Help:5. Automatic External Defibrillator

AEDs are user-friendly devices to save the life of someone having

Sudden Cardiac Arrest. AED’s use electrical therapy to defibrillate

or stop arrhythmia to get the heart back to a normal rhythm.

Opening an AED box notifies the WSUPD Dispatch and activates

a loud audible. For an inventory listing and locations:

http://www.wright.edu/admin/ehs/

For more information on AED’s see Health & Human Services:

http://

www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/healthtopics/topics/aed/howtouse.html

Automatic External DefibrillatorOhio’s “Good Samaritan” law provides certain protection from lawsuits to those providing first aid or other emergency care or treatment to someone suffering an injury or sudden illness - Ohio Revised Code, Section 2305.23.

Six Ways to Summon Help:

6. Pull Stations Know locations and use whenever there is

a fire or heavy smoke which will notify WSUPD Dispatch.

Wright State University–owned buildings

(Hamilton Hall & Forest Lane) are also monitored

by WSUPD Dispatch

IF THE PREVIOUS 5 METHODS of communication are

unavailable; pull stations may be used to notify WSUPD Dispatch

as a last resort

Fire Safety Equipment – Residence Halls

Residence halls are equipped with smoke detectors, sprinkler systems, and hallway fire extinguisher.

Each leased building (College Park, The Woods, Village, and the Honors Community) is externally monitored to dispatch the Fairborn Fire Department and or notify the WSUPD Dispatch.

Fire Extinguishers

Know the location of nearest extinguisher BUT use only for yoursafety to escape the building.

Personnel in High Hazardous Areas may be required to be trained due to increased risk or volatility of materials.

Hazard Communication

Your Right-to-Understand• Ensures that the hazards of all chemicals produced or imported

are classified, and that information concerning the classified hazard is communicated to employers and employees.

• Aligns with the United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), Revision 3.

Provides• Container labeling and other forms of warning, • Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) in a standardized 16-section format, and • Employee training.

Every employee has the right to understand the hazards in their work area.

Hazard Communication Labels

Requirements•Name, address and telephone number•Product identifier•Signal word•Hazard statement(s)•Precautionary Statement(s)•Pictogram(s)

Every employee must be able to understand hazardous material labels and pictograms in their work area.

Hazard Communication PictogramsHCS2012 Pictograms and Hazards

Health Hazard• Carcinogen• Mutagenicity

• Reproductive Toxicity• Respiratory Sensitizer• Target Organ Toxicity

• Aspiration Toxicity

Flame• Flammables• Pyrophorics• Self-Heating

• Emits Flammable Gas

• Self-Reactives• Organic Peroxides

Exclamation Mark• Irritant (skin and eye)

• Skin Sensitizer• Acute Toxicity

• Narcotic Effects• Respiratory Tract Irritant•Hazardous to Ozone Layer

(Non-Mandatory)

Gas Cylinder• Gases Under Pressure

Corrosion• Skin Corrosion/Burns

• Eye Damage• Corrosive to Metals

Exploding Bomb• Explosives

• Self-Reactives• Organic Peroxides

Flame Over Circle• Oxidizers

Environment(Non-Mandatory)

• Aquatic Toxicity

Skull and Crossbones• Acute Toxicity (fatal or

toxic)

Hazard Communication Label Fictitious Example

Hazard Communication Safety Data Sheets (SDS)The SDS is a detailed document that communicates hazard information  to•Employers, •Employees, •Physicians, •Other health professionals, and •Emergency personnel.

Every employee must have access to SDS for every hazardous material in their work area.

Hazard CommunicationSDS Example

SDSs

• Must use the standard 16-section format to make finding specific information easier.

• Must be readily available.

• Must be provided by the chemical manufacturer.

• Must be retained 30 years beyond the last use date of the material.

Hazard CommunicationEmployee Information and Training Employees require effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area:

• at the time of their initial assignment, and

• whenever a new chemical hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area.

Information and training may cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals.

Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and SDSs.Every employee must have training for hazardous materials in their work area.

DOT - Hazardous Material Transportation

DOT training required for Receiving or Shipping of hazardous material on or off campus. Hazardous Material can include:

Chemicals and chemical containing equipment Biological and/or infectious materials Radioactive material, isotopes, sealed source, etc. Compressed Gases

Bloodborne Pathogens

Wright State University employs many people who

could come into contact with human blood, blood

components, or other potentially infectious material

(OPIM).

If your job duties potentially put you in contact with

bloodborne pathogens or OPIM make sure you acquire

the bloodborne pathogens training

& practice universal precautions.

More information may be found on the EHS

BBP website page. ww.citylightsnews.com/randy/glossary/imagesw/

Lab Safety

Laboratories require a Lab Safety Plan for personnel working in lab settings.

Working in a laboratory requires additional training. Contact our Lab Safety Officer at ext. 2797 .

Lab Safety Labels, Lab Signs, & Other Warnings

Your job may or may not require you to be exposed to hazardous substances on campus.

▫ If not, be aware of hazard warning signs, what they mean, and refrain from entering areas labeled as hazardous without further training.

▫ Otherwise, you will need Safety Data Sheet, Personal Protective Equipment, and Emergency Action Plan Training.

Lab Safety - Biological Safety Awareness

Biological materials such as cell cultures, viruses, toxins, and DNA/RNA

are commonly found in research/teaching and require oversight by our

Biological Safety Committee and Biological Safety Officer.

Regulated by the National Institute of Health and the Center for Disease

Control guidelines, the Institutional Biosafety Committee, and the EHS

Institutional Biosafety Officer (ext. 2797).

Lab Safety - Radiation Safety

Radioactive materials, radiation producing devices (x-rays), and lasers

used on campus, are regulated by the Ohio Department of Health,

Radiation Safety Committee, and/or EHS Radiation Safety Officer.

Work with radioactive materials, radiation producing devices, or lasers

requires additional training and may be obtained by contacting EHS at

ext. 2169.

Lab Safety - Lasers

•Lasers need approval and inspected.

•Training and PPE is required

•Class 3b & Class 4 Lasers require medical eye exams

Lab Safety - Orphan ChemicalsEHS provides a list of chemicals that are

available to all researchers, for good purity

chemicals no longer needed by our researchers

These "orphaned" chemicals are available free

of charge, on a "first come, first serve" basis.

The quantities listed include weight of the

container (in kilograms), as well as its contents.

These chemicals can save researchers money

and decrease our disposal costs. Contact EHS

for more details and current inventory.

Environmental - Waste Disposal

All waste must be disposed of properly where Re-Use, Repurposing, & regular land-fill is not feasible.

Regulated Waste is EPA-classified waste.Recyclables includes batteries, paper, cardboard, aluminum, and some triple-rinsed containers like glassware and plastic drums.Special Waste includes:

Chemicals, paints, cleaners, etc… Infectious material Radioactive Material Electronics (computers, fax machines, etc…) Fluorescent lights

Additional training required for those generating regulated waste. Contact EHS at ext. 3788.

Environmental - Pollution Prevention

Hazardous Material SpillsIf spill is unknown or beyond your capabilities, contact

EHS for our HAZMAT

Team response.

Storm Water Management We’re a Permitted Facility required

to educate “consumers”, maintain best management

practices, and prevent illicit discharges.

Please call WSU Police Dispatch if any potential spills are observed on or near campus property.

Environmental - Drinking Water

WSU has 2 wells, 3 water treatment operators, and its

very own water treatment plant to service campus

locations (does not include off-site housing, or satellite

operations).

The Annual Consumer Confidence Report (CCR)

summarizes information regarding aquifers use, any

detected contaminants, compliance, and educational

information. The reports are due by July 1st each year.

CCR’s are found on EHS’s Drinking Water link:*.*Boil advisories are issued due to maintenance activities. Please follow all guidance provided during a boil advisory.

Safety - Electrical

Electric Shock and Arc FlashElectrical equipment or electrical system design, installation, modification, testing, repair, and maintenance shall be done by QUALIFIED AND AUTHORIZED electrical personnel only.

If your job requires you to perform AUTHORIZED electrical work, additional electrical training and arc flash training is required. Contact EHS at ext. 2215.

Safety – Electrical

Electric Shock and Arc FlashFor the rest of us, a few basic electrical safety practices to consider:

• Never open or approach an open electrical panel. These panels are designed to protect you when they are closed.

• Never place liquids or any other item on top of control or electrical panels.

• Never reset a “tripped” safety switch or circuit breaker.

• Report faulty or suspicious electrical systems.

• No over loading circuits – “daisy chained” or multiple outlet adapters.

• All electric heaters must be approved by Physical Plant.

• Never use ungrounded or broken plugs.

• Avoid using extension cords.

Safety - Lockout

Lockout is a process used to protect employees and visitors from

accidental startup of machines or equipment, and to prevent the release

of stored energy during servicing and/or maintenance.

The placement of a lockout device and employee identification valves,

motors, pumps, electrical breakers, etc. ensures hazardous energy is

controlled and equipment cannot be operated until the lockout device is

removed.

Safety - Lockout

Affected Person – Anyone working in the vicinity of locked out equipment OR

would be “affected” by lockout procedures.

Do not attempt to utilize equipment that has been locked out. Look for

identifying tags, as seen in photos.

Authorized Person – Trained employee that controls all energy sources when

performing tasks involving hazardous motion or stored energy. These might be

electrical, hydraulic, gravity, kinetic, temperature, chemical, compressed air, etc.

Safety - Confined SpacesNEVER enter permit-required spaces without training, equipment, and written authorization.

A Confined space is an area that: Has limited or restricted means of entry or exit Is large enough for a worker to enter and perform the task assigned Is not designated for continuous employee occupancy Any open-top tank or pit more than four (4) feet deep that meets the above conditions Confined spaces on campus are marked as:

DANGERPERMIT-REQUIRED CONFINED

SPACEDO NOT ENTER

Contact EHS 937.775.2215For Emergency – WSUPD

937.775.2111

DANGERCONFINED SPACE

SEE YOUR SUPERVISOR BEFORE ENTRY

Contact EHS 937.775.2215For Emergency – WSUPD

937.775.2111

Safety - Fall Hazard

Falls are one of the leading causes of occupational injuries and many

Fall Hazards at WSU exist around campus.

If your job requires you to use any of this equipment or access any of

these areas, then specific training is required.

Any Roof Access

Ladders

Vertical or Aerial Lifts

Scaffolding

Any working/walking surface four feet or higher above next lowest level

Above holes, openings, skylights or other hazardous area such as water,

moving parts, electrical devices, etc.

Safety – Accident, Injury, & Near-Miss Reporting

Report all near-misses, incidents, accidents, injuries, or illnesses, regardless of severity to your supervisor immediately.

An incident report shall be completed by you and your supervisor by the end of your shift:http://

www.wright.edu/administration/ehs/resources/report.html

Additional EHS Training

Additional EHS training may be required

depending on your job.

On our EHS website, complete the “EHS Job Task

Questionnaire”. If you supervise staff, complete

only the “EHS Supervisor Training Questionnaire”.

Wright Way Policies: EHS 6000 Series

6001 Environmental Health and Safety

6010 Safety Shoes

6014 Fire Safety Plan

6015 Exit Policy for the Closeout/Decommissioning of University Labs

6020 Smoking

6030 Pregnancy in the Workplace/Academic and Research Settings

6031 Emergency Care for Injuries and Illnesses

6032 Reporting Injuries and Illnesses

6034 Occupational/Non-occupational Exposure to BB Pathogens

6052 Violence in the Workplace

Office of Environmental Health & Safety

Dedicated EHS Professionals providing risk management, job hazard analysis, and regulatory compliance for all visitors, students, faculty, and staff while keeping YOU our most important asset Safe and Healthy.

http://www.wright.edu/admin/ehs/resources/concern.html

937.775.2215 Main Office 047 Biological Sciences II

937.212.2946 EHS Employee 24 hour response