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Personnel Safety Review Checklist
Project Site Location
- Any exposure to or from the neighborhood from fire, explosion, noise, air
and stream pollution?
- Adequate access for emergency vehicles?
- Any potential blockages of access roads by railroads, highway congestion,
etc.?
- Access roads well engineered to avoid sharp curves? Traffic signs
provided?
Building and Structures
- What standards are being followed in the design of stairways, platforms,
ramps and fixed ladders?
- Are sufficient general exit and escape routes available? Alternate means
of escape from roofs provided? Is protection provided to persons along the
line of the escape routes?
- Adequate lighting provided?
- Doors and windows hung to avoid projecting into or blocking walkways and
exits?
- Structural steel grounded?
Operating Areas
- Are equipment, steam, water, air and electric outlets arranged to keep
aisles and operating floor areas clear of hoses and cables?
- Ventilation furnished for hazardous fumes, vapors, dust and excessive
heat?
- Temporary storage provided for raw materials at process points, and for
finished products?
- Where operations are potentially hazardous from the standpoints of fire
and explosion, are controls housed in separate structures? If not, are
control room windows kept to a minimum and glazed with laminated safety
glass?
- Are alternate escape routes to safe locations provided?
- If needed, what type of pressure relief venting of area is furnished?
- Do platforms provide safe clearance for safe maintenance of equipment?
- Are nozzles and manholes sized and located for safe cleanout, maintenance
operations, and emergency removal of people from vessels?
- What protection is provided to protect against contact with hot surfaces?
- Is head clearance adequate in walkway and working areas?
- Is power-driven equipment adequately guarded?
- Are manually operated valves, switches and other controls readily
accessible to the operator from a safe location?
- Are vents located so that discharges, including liquids, do not endanger
personnel, public or property? Are all vents above the highest liquid level
possible in the system?
- Are free-swinging hoists avoided? Are hoists equipped with safety hooks,
limit switches, if motorized?
- Are elevators equipped with shaftway door interlocks and car gate
contacts? Are there safety astragals on bi-parting doors?
- Is every effort being made to handle materials mechanically rather than
manually?
- Are emergency showers and hose-type eye baths provided?
- Has a safe storage and dispensing location for flammable liquid drums been
provided?
- Are there at least two exits from hazardous work?
- Where excessively noisy operations are concerned, what measures are
contemplated to reduce the noise level to a safe range?
- Is there safe exit from manufacturing offices or laboratories?
- Are positive electrical power disconnects being installed for purposes of
lockout?
Yard
- Are roadways laid out with consideration for the safe movement of
pedestrians, vehicles and emergency equipment?
- Are railroad car puller control stations fully protected against broken
cable whiplash? How will operator be protected from being caught between
cable or rope and capstan or cable drum?
- Are flammable liquid tank car and tank truck loading and unloading docks
bonded or grounded?
- Are safe means provided on loading platforms for access to work areas of
tank cars and trucks?
- Is protection against falling furnished for employees who work on tops of
railroad cars and trucks?
- Is safe access provided to tops of storage tanks on which persons go for
contents measurement and vent maintenance?
- Is there sufficient head clearance and good visibility in walking and
working areas?
- Is yard lighting adequate?
Adapted from: Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures.
Prepared by Battelle Columbus Division for The Center for Chemical Process
Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. 345 East 47th Street,
New York, NY. (1985).
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