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sc 13961 PLANT MANAGER'S SAFETY BOARD MINUTES OF MEETING (SYNOPSIS) APRIL 15, 1983 Present were: A.H. Conrad G.A. Danner G.W. Daues R.T. Hammann D.E. Kaldenberg B.C. Lancaster S.G. Pappas G.T. Ryan Henry Schroeder for D.W. Metten Leonard Schwab for R.L. Hammond J.G. Trafton G.L. Tromblee G.L. Wofford I. REVIEW OF STATISTICS--R.T. Hammann A. Texas City Plant Safety Performance Summary - March (A) INJURIES WITHOUT LOST WORKDAYS (medical treatment only) (B) LOST WORKDAYS CASES **BX RESTRICTED ACTIVITY **B2 DAYS AWAY FROM WORK CASES (C) FATALITIES *TOTAL RECORDABLE CASES 1982 MAR YTD 25 01 00 01 00 26 1983 MAR YTD 12 00 00 00 00 12 1983 TARGETS 11 2 -- -- -- 13 INJURY RATES PER 200,000 MANHOURS 1982 MAR YTD 1983 MAR YTD 1983 TARGETS 1983 MFI FEB TARGET YTD TOTAL INJURY-TIR TOTAL RECORDABLE-TRR TOTAL LOST WORKDAY-TLWR DAYS-AWAY-FROM-WORK-DAWR 7.49 1.25 0.00 0.00 8.46 12.98 1.37 0.76 0.23 0.00 0.23 0.00 10.36 0.53 0.00 0.00 0.87 0.13 -- 1.02 -- -- 0.96 0.36 0.24 NOTE: Explanation of Injury rate - The injury rate per 200,000 manhours can be equated to roughly the number of injuries that occur to 100 workers during a period of one year. Therefore, if we have a total recordable rate of 1.0 this means that one out of every 100 workers has had a recordable injury during that year. STG 2430767 LAM015750 PMSB Meeting Minutes--April 15, 1983 Page 2 B. Comments on Statistics--R. T. Hammann We had one Recordable Injury in February and one Recordable Injury in March; both were lacerations that required stitches. There have been no Recordable Injuries so far in April. Areas continuing to have high cumulative monthly injury rates are: analysts, pumper gaugers, electricians, and insulators. Those areas having high injury rates although showing improved trend lines are painters and Dept. 50. Those areas within the confidence limits, but having an increasing injury rate are: Dept. 53, Depts. 44/45/46, and the Instrument Dept. Areas with excellent safety records are: HCN Complex (six months without an injury). Dept. 513 (seven months without an injury), and Stores and Dept. 33 which have gone over one year without an injury. C. Contractor Safety--Leonard Schwab for R.L. Hammond There was one Recordable Injury in February and no Recordable Injuries in March. II. REPORT OF THE SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE (SAC)--G. A. Danner A. S&PP Recommendation 82-2 on Emergency Shutdown/Standby Procedures Confirmation has been received from all operating areas that these procedures have been completed. During the First Quarter Safety & Housekeeping Competitive Inspection it was noted that these procedures had not been conveyed to the operators and foremen in some areas. All units need to ensure that this information is conveyed and made available to all operating personnel. III. REPORT OF THE PLANT SAFETY AND HOPSEKEEPING ACTION COMMITTEE (SHAC)-- A. H. Conrad A. Hourly Safety Committee Good attendance at both the February and March meetings. Concern items: 13962 1. Cooling tower fan hazard - Maintenance is working on an accep table solution. A trip was made to Chocolate Bayou on 4/14/83, to inspect a device they have fabricated and installed in their towers. Expect resolution in the near future. 2. Removing bolts from 51D4 manway cover - Plant survey has been completed. All operating areas except Material Handling and Dept. 13/14 follow the practice of removing manways from equip ment that has not been completely blinded. Even those two areas felt that this practice would be acceptable, if reasonable pre cautions were taken. Information on the survey will be passed on to SAC for a resolution as to an overall plant policy. STG 2430768 LAM015751 f PMSB Meeting Minutes--April 15, 1983 Page 3 B. First Competitive Quarterly Safety & Housekeeping Inspection The inspection has been completed and all reports have been written and distributed. The Outstanding Unit Award goes to Dept. 33, and the Outstanding Craft Award to the Insulators. Presentation of these awards will be made the afternoon of 4/15/83. C. Drug and Alcohol Abuse Program Have made contact with General Motors, one of the industrial leaders in developing and Implementing a Drug and Alcohol Abuse Program. Some activity in this area is taking place in corporate headquarters. Further contacts will be made. D. Hose Inspection The Quarterly Inspections revealed that breathing air hoses are not being inspected anywhere in the plant. This was added to the proce dure when it was revised last year. A letter will be written to all Manufacturing Superintendents to rectify this situation. E. Amyl Nitrite During the course of the Quarterly Inspection it was noted that some locations had amyl nitrite crushable capsules that were out-of-date. This was probably due to the fact that many people were not aware that these capsules have a 2 year shelf life. Letters have been written to those areas having out-of-date capsules to contact the Medical Dept, for replacement. IV. REVIEW OF INCIDENTS Monsanto Incidents Date Incident No. Description 02/18/83 83-03 (issued) Fire--Dept. 53 E5-3; NO INJURIES. (Hernandez) 02/25/83 83-04 (issued) Spill--Dept. 53; South 22 tank farm; overflow of ortho-xylene tank; NO INJURIES. (Kirk) The investigation of incident 83-04 brought out the fact that storage tanks are not as well marked as desired. R.L. Hammond/L. Schwab will discuss with the painting foreman, Tom Glover, the institution of a program to identify tanks with larger letters in all four quadrants whenever any storage tank is painted in the future. At this time there are no plans to retrofit this tank identification. Contractor Incidents NONE SC 13963 STS 2430769 LAM015752 PMSB Meeting Minutes--April 15, 1983 sc 13964 Page 4 V. STATUS OF S-T-O-P PROGRAM--G. W. Daues The second unit of Chiefs/Leadmen training will be completed this week. The third unit is due to start next week. It is good to note that atten dance has picked up in these meetings. The Office Safety Committee is working on a clerical/laboratory STOP training program. It will be a a rough job for them to adapt much of the training to these groups-- especially the clerical personnel. The Hourly Safety Committee will be looking at making an adaptation of the green books for the hourly person nel . Interest has picked up and the number of STOP observations turned in has increased as more individuals have this on their JRA and goals. An article concerning the STOP program at Texas City has been written for the St. Louis newsletter. VI.MISCELLANEOUS--R. T. Hammann A. Fire, Entry, and Special Permit Procedure This revised bulletin will be issued in May following training for supervisory personnel and maintenance leadmen. LP&S will conduct the supervisory training and work with Maintenance on the leadman training. B. Eyebath/Safety Shower Retrofit After some discussion it was determined that Bob Hammann will poll the superintendents on their feelings about retrofitting and have a recommendation for the May PMSB. C. Plectron Testing After some discussion it was decided that testing of the plant plectrons will be done immediately after the fire and spill alarm code is tested on Mondays at 13:00. This test will be conducted by the guards and will be instituted after it is publicized. D. Return of Fire Crew Members to Their Regular Assignments If unit or craft supervision have need of their fire crew members prior to release from handling an emergency situation, the supervisor will contact his General Superintendent, who will then determine whether the fire crew member can be released or additional personnel are to be called into the plant on overtime. In no cases will the supervisory personnel contact the Fire Chief or Assistant Fire Chief while an emergency is in progress. E. Contractor/CEP Safety Statistics Due to the cut back in contract personnel in the plant, the means of obtaining contractor safety statistics is no longer available. LP&S and Maintenance will work out a procedure for handling this in the future. B. C. Lancaster will continue to handle CED safety statistics. STS 2430770 LAM015753 PMSB Meeting Minutes--April 15, 1983 Page 5 VII. PLANT MANAGER'S COMMENTS Our injury record so far this year is good and we need to continue the work that has produced these results. There is much activity and a lot on people's minds concerning contract negotiations at this time. It behooves us all to make the extra effort and continue to make STOP obser vations to maintain and improve on our safety performance. RTH/es R. T. Hammann SC 13965 STG 2430771 LAM015754