Q63) You are the EH & S manager or Environmental Engineer for a facility that us
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Q63) You are the EH & S manager or Environmental Engineer for a facility that uses more than 500 different chemicals at your manufacturing plant. The Plant Manager has assigned you the responsibility of maintaining full compliance with all environmental, emergency planning/preparedness, and occupational safety and health requirements. Explain the first step in the process of determining the compliance requirements under CFATS for your facility. (approximately 50 words) cite your sources
Q64) One of the 500+ chemicals at your facility, as described in Q63, is concentrated commercial grade sodium cyanide. The facility only uses 2500 pounds per year. Explain how you will determine whether or not the facility is subject to CFATS. Please note, a complete response to this question requires listing each of the rules you need to review and a brief explanation of how you determined the appropriate actions you must take to keep the facility in compliance. (approximately 50 words) cite your sources
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Q63) Ans.) As an environmental Health and Safety Manager (EH & S manager) or environmental engineer for a facility that uses more than 500 different chemicals at the manufacturing plant, the first and formost things is to identify the chemicals which could come under the regulations of CFATS, that is Chemical Facility Anti Terrorism Standards guidelines. According to these guidelines the chemicals which may come under the category of CFATS are the ones which poses immediate serious probems for the security of the facility and of the nation due to its potential poisionous or serious health hazard chemical properties. The chemicals safety may be classified into various terminologies say a chemical is highly potent in terms of health like sodium cyanide which has the property of extremely poisionous when administered into a body or taken oraly in small amounts. Some other chemicals which may come under the CFATS regulations are for example sodium azide and other alkali metals such as sodium, potassium, which are highly flammable. These chemicals and metals are extremely reactive and they react with even a small amount of water present in air or metal when scratched which generate heat. Some starting points for assigning and arranging chemicals under the Chemical Facility Anti Terrorism Standards guidelines are the chemicals which are of imediate threat If an terrorist attack happens on the facility. what If the terrorist attack on the chemical facility becomes succesful. If the attack does become sucessful It is all the more important to identify what is the actual purpose of the terrorist attack, is it to merely destroy the chemical facility or a more serious intent of using the potent chemicals for harming the mass population of the location and further down. Proper safety measures as the area where these chemicals are stored, the amount of these chemicals present at a time in the facility and the ease of access to these chemicals are prime factors in storing these chemicals in any chemical facility.
Q64) Ans.) One of the 500+ chemicals at the chemical facility described in Q63, is concentrated commercial grade sodium cyanide. If the chemical facility uses only say 2500 pounds per year. The chemical facility will still come under the safety guidelines of the Chemical Facility Anti Terrorism Standards (CFATS). The basic rule for the CFATS is how much of a potentially threat possible chemical in total is present at a time in a chemical facility for If in case of any terrorist attack, the immediate threat is what is taken into consideration. The overall usage is secondary in these cases for the safety compliance of these and any of the categosy chemicals which are regulated by the CFATS.
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