Section 325.51409. Emergency situations.  


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  • An employer shall develop a written operations plan for emergency situations for each facility storing, handling, or otherwise using vinyl chloride as a liquid or compressed gas. Appropriate portions of the plan shall be implemented in the event of an emergency. The plan shall specifically provide the following:

    (a)    Employers shall equip employees engaged in hazardous operations or correcting situations of existing hazardous releases as required in R 325.51408.

    (b)     Employers shall ensure that other employees not equipped in accordance with subdivision (a) of this rule shall evacuate the area and not return until conditions are controlled by the methods required in R 325.51406 and the emergency is abated.

History: 2000 AACS; 2013 AACS.