Chapter 296-307 Safety standards for agriculture.

Develop an emergency response plan.Notes:1. The employer may already have an emergency response plan, such as required by chapter 296-843 WAC, Hazardous waste operations or by state and locally coordinated response efforts (Section 303 of Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization …

Train employees.Notes:1. Use Tables 3 through 6 to identify employees' training competencies. 2. The employer may conduct training internally, or use outside training services to comply with this section. When outside trainers are hired, the employer is still responsible for maki…

Provide medical surveillance to employees.(1) The employer must provide medical surveillance for employees to comply with Tables 7 and 8, and the following:(a) Make medical surveillance available at:(i) Reasonable times and places.(ii) No cost to employees, including travel assoc…

The employer must keep a record of:(1) Name and Social Security number of the employee receiving medical surveillance;(2) Physicians' written opinions, recommended limitations, and results of examinations and tests;(3) Any employee medical complaints regarding hazardous substance…

Recognize emergencies and initiate a response.The employer must make sure employees follow procedures in your emergency response plan to:(1) Recognize when an emergency response must be initiated;(2) Notify employees, and others designated in your plan, of the release;(3) Follow …

(1) The employer must make sure a single individual, acting as the incident commander (IC), is in charge of the site-specific incident command system (ICS) and acts within their designated role and training level.Note:For multiemployer worksites: 1. The IC has responsibility for …

Note:The duties of skilled support personnel are described in Table 1, Roles and Duties of Emergency Responders.(1) The employer must make sure that their skilled support personnel (including those employees who are not regularly employed by you) who could be exposed to on-scene …

The employer of the incident commander (IC) must:(1) Identify all hazardous substances and conditions present, within their training level, using site analysis and maximum exposure limits, when appropriate.(2) Implement emergency response procedures appropriate to the hazardous s…

The employer must make sure operations and tasks (including limited actions) in danger areas are conducted using the buddy system in teams of two or more.Definition. Danger areas are areas where conditions pose a serious danger to employees, such as areas where:(a) Immediately da…

(1) The employer must provide stand-by employees equipped with the same level of personal protective equipment (PPE) as the entrants, for assistance or rescue.Notes:1. The buddy system applies to stand-by employees (WAC 296-307-70450). 2. One of the two stand-by employees can be …

Notes:1. Only properly trained employees should select PPE. Hazardous materials technicians and hazardous materials specialists can select PPE within the competencies specified in Table 4. 2. Selection requirements in other PPE rules also apply, including: a. Chapter 296-307 WAC,…

The employer must control hazards created by the use of PPE, including:(1) Heat stress due to extremely high temperatures.(2) Any other employee health hazard and consideration.[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, and 49.17.060. WSR 20-21-091, § 296-307-7046…

(1) The employer must make sure employees inspect PPE before, during and after use, following your plan's procedures.(2) The employer must make sure employees put on (don) and remove (doff) PPE following your plan's procedures.(3) The employer must make sure employees do not inte…

important:Postemergency response is the stage of the emergency response where the immediate threat from the release has been stabilized or eliminated, and cleanup of the site has started.When cleanup is done by the employees who were part of the initial emergency response, the em…

The following definitions are specific to this section:Annually. Any twelve-month cycle.Buddy system. A system of organizing employees (who enter or stand by danger areas) into work groups, so each employee can be observed by at least one other member of the group. The purpose of…