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STAFFING FOR OSHA CHLORIDE REGULATIONS
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Each of the FVC plants has approached the problems of staffing to handle the activities involved in compliance with the VCM standard in a little different way. The size of the plant, age of equipment, diversity of products, and plant "personality" have been factors leading to different approaches to the additional burden involved in adapting to the new way of life. Comparison is most inexact but the recent attempt to obtain sim ilar data from each plant has provided some interesting comparisons.
ALGO HENRY LOUISVILLE LONG BEACH FEDRICKTOWN
Total Employees PVC Employees
642 164
Authorized Employees
339
Number of Regulated Areas
4
Nuiriber of Personal Monitorings/
Month
396
319 ll4 182
1
130
1039 215 425 5
454
142 47 57 1
124
247 58
136 2
170
EstiBBted Time - Man-hours/Month (MH/M)
Personal Monitoring Leak Detection
300 230
90 200
Anal. Laboratory Record Keeping
1090 130 174 50
Medical Surveillance (Nurses) 356
87
350 740 850
135 356
90 90 520
35 43
84 145 215 153 273
Total Estimated Time (MH/m) Monitoring, Leak Detection, Analytical, Record Keeping, and Medical
2150
557
2430
778
870
Equivalent Number of People
12.4 3.2
14 ^5
5-0
Equivalent Number Per 100 PVC Employees
6.7 3-5 6.5 9-5 ** *
8.6
Assignment of Safety People Total Safety (Including Nurses)
Number for OSBA VCM
Total Nurses Number for OSHA VCM
8
3-7
3 2
3
0.7
1 0.5
11 2
3 . 0.5
51 2 0.25
3-5
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-2- September 5* 1975
Who Handles
Personal Monitoring
ALGC
Environmental Health (Safety)
Henry
S/E Operators (4 Special Production People)
Louisville - Environmental Dept. (3 engineers, 6 operators)
Long Beach - Laboratory Operators
Pedricktown - Technical Trainee
Leak Detection
ALGC
- Foreman, Operators (Regular Production)
Henry
- s/e (4 Special Production People)
Louisville - OVA (4 Special Mfg. Processes People)
Long Beach - Foreman, Operators (Regular Production)
Pedricktown - Operators (Regular Production)
Record Keepii-g
ALGC
Nurse, Operators, Environmental Dept.
Henry
Nurse, OSHA Administrator, Professional Service Emp.
Louisville - Nurse, OSHA Administrator
Long Beach - Nurse, OSHA Administrator
Pedricktown - Nurse, Technical Trainee, Chemist
Overall, it seems that 3*5 to 95$ of people assigned to the PVC departments are devoted to the specific Jobs of Personal Monitoring, Leak Detection, Record Keeping and Medical Surveillance. These tasks might be considered direct involvement in OSHA VC1 compliance. In addition, of course, is the rather substantial effort in the less direct engineering, production and technical areas.
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cc: OSHA Administrators H. Waltemate J. KLupar
R. L. Toole
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B.F.COODRICH CHEMICAL COMPANY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
AGENDA
Second Meeting; October 20, 1975 " 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Cleveland Office - Conference Room 1-B
The first meeting set the policies and objectives of the committee. Subsequent meetings will cover details of specific chemicals.
I. VCM review. a) Whitney's letter of 10/6. b) New GC for NIOSH/OSHA method. c) Criteria for method acceptance.
II. Medical exams for Carbopol employees. III. Benzene - review and clarification.
IV. Lead a) Proposed OSHA standard - should we comment? b) Monitoring frequency, sampling procedure, etc.
V. Carbon monoxide - procedure for OTA. VI.Acrylonitrile - frequency, analytical procedure, abatement. VII. Butadiene - frequency, analytical procedure, abatement. VIII. Styrene - frequency, analytical procedure, abatement. IX.Computer storage of data other than VCM.
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cc: Committee O.F. Beckmeyer L.B. Crider E.W. Harrington M.N. Johnson, M.D. E.B. Katzeruneyer, Jr. J.A. Klupar W. Moorehouse P.D. Terry H. Waltemate
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Others J.L. Nelson R.W. Strassburg J.E. Stroope V.C. Holbrook B.M.G. Zwicker
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