Scope (a)(1): unless the employer can show no employee exposure or reasonable possibility of exposure, the section covers (i) clean-up operations required by a governmental body at uncontrolled hazardous waste sites (including the EPA National Priority List, state priority lists, sites recommended for the NPL and initial investigations of government-identified sites); (ii) corrective actions involving clean-up at RCRA sites; (iii) voluntary clean-up at sites recognized by a governmental body as uncontrolled hazardous waste sites; (iv) hazardous waste operations at RCRA treatment, storage and disposal (TSD) facilities regulated by 40 CFR parts 264 and 265 or authorized agencies; and (v) emergency response operations for releases, or substantial threats of releases, of hazardous substances regardless of location. Application (a)(2): clean-up operations under (i) to (iii) meet all paragraphs except (p) and (q); TSD operations under (iv) meet only (p) (conditionally exempt small quantity generators under 40 CFR 261.5 and generators exempt under 40 CFR 262.34 are excepted from (p)(1) to (p)(7), but must meet (p)(8) if they have employees engage in emergency response); emergency response not covered by (i) to (iv) meets only (q). Where provisions overlap, the more protective applies. Incidental releases controlled at the time by nearby employees are not emergency responses. Clean-up sites: a written safety and health program (b) with organizational structure (general supervisor and site safety and health supervisor), comprehensive workplan and a site-specific safety and health plan kept on site covering task hazard analysis, training, PPE, medical surveillance, air monitoring, site control, decontamination, emergency response, confined space and spill containment, with pre-entry briefings and effectiveness inspections; contractors informed of hazards. Site characterization (c) by a qualified person before and after entry, with Level B minimum PPE and direct reading instruments when hazards are unknown and a 5-minute escape SCBA if SCBA is not worn. Site control (d): map, work zones, buddy system, communications, nearest medical help. Training (e): general site workers 40 hours off site plus three days supervised field experience; occasional or fully characterized low-exposure workers 24 hours plus one day (16 hours and two days more if they become general workers or wear respirators); on-site managers and supervisors 40 hours and three days (or 24 hours and one day) plus at least eight hours of specialized training; qualified trainers; written certificates; eight hours of refresher training annually; documented equivalent training allowed. Medical surveillance (f) for employees exposed at or above PELs (or published levels) 30 days or more a year, respirator wearers 30 days or more a year, those injured or symptomatic, and HAZMAT team members: exams before assignment, at least every twelve months (up to biennially if the physician agrees), at termination if none in six months, and promptly after symptoms or emergency overexposure, at no cost, with a physician's written opinion and records per 1910.1020. Controls and PPE (g): engineering controls and work practices first, no rotation except for ionizing radiation, positive pressure SCBA or airline with escape air where exposures could cause immediate death or impair escape, totally encapsulating suits (Level A) where skin absorption could do so, suits holding positive pressure with no more than 0.5 percent inward leakage, and a written PPE program with ten elements. Monitoring (h) at initial entry, periodically and for high-risk employees. Informational programs (i); drum and container handling (j) including unlabeled drums treated as hazardous, shock-sensitive wastes and lab packs; decontamination (k); an emergency response plan (l) unless employees evacuate under a 1910.38 plan; illumination per Table H-120.1 (for example 5 foot-candles general areas, 30 first aid stations); sanitation (n), with showers and change rooms for work of six months or more; new technology evaluation (o). TSD facilities (p): written safety and health program, hazard communication, medical surveillance, decontamination, new technology and material handling programs, 24 hours initial and eight hours annual refresher training with certificates, and an emergency response program with training completed before responding and certified (or competency certified) at least yearly. Emergency response (q), wherever it occurs: a written emergency response plan (not required if employees evacuate under a 1910.38 plan) covering pre-emergency planning, roles, recognition, refuge, security, evacuation, decontamination, medical treatment, alerting, critique and PPE; the senior emergency response official runs a site-specific Incident Command System; positive pressure SCBA for inhalation hazards until air monitoring justifies less; entry limited to needed personnel working in a buddy system of two or more; back-up personnel and advance first aid standing by; a designated safety official with authority to alter, suspend or terminate IDLH activities; decontamination after operations; firefighting PPE per 1910.156(e). Training by role before emergency work: first responder awareness level (sufficient training or experience to demonstrate the listed competencies, no hours stated), first responder operations level at least eight hours (or sufficient experience to demonstrate competency), hazardous materials technician at least 24 hours equal to the operations level, hazardous materials specialist at least 24 hours equal to the technician level, and on-scene incident commander at least 24 hours equal to the operations level, each with employer certification; specialist employees trained or competent annually; skilled support personnel briefed on site; annual refresher training or yearly demonstrated competency with a record of the method. HAZMAT team members and specialists receive baseline physicals and medical surveillance per (f). Post-emergency clean-up follows (b) to (o), or for on-plant clean-up by plant employees, training under 1910.38, 1910.134 and 1910.1200. Appendices A to E are non-mandatory.
This control maps to 4 controls across 2 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.
Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.
The graph holds this control, the 4 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.