Unit VI Case Study BOS 3125 Read the following scenario

Unit VI Case Study
BOS 3125
Read the following
scenario, and answer the questions following each section:
The Dosit Corporation is a
chemical manufacturer, and its products are sold to other manufacturers and
used in household cleaning products. The company has 290 employees with about
220 involved in the production process, 30 working as maintenance personnel,
and the remainder in clerical, sales, engineering, and senior management
positions. BOS 3125, Hazardous Materials Management 3

The company has never had a
safety manager before it recently hiring you. The company president instructed
you to find out what is wrong regarding safety and health and then to fix it.
Several binders and files have been given to you with the explanation that they
are the existing safety policies and records. Looking through one folder, you
find a chemical inventory list from two years ago that included 780 chemicals.
You find no records of hazard communication training, and the existing written
program is very minimal and inadequate. You also look at the MSDS/SDS files and
find considerably fewer than 780 MSDS/SDSs.
Question 1. What steps
should you take to bring the company into compliance with the HCS considering
best practices?
You went on a tour of your
company’s chemical processing area with the production foreman. As with any
such operations, there are pipes going everywhere and numerous tanks. You
noticed that few of the pipes and none of the tanks have visible labels
indicating what is in the tanks or pipes.
Question 2a. Is this a
problem from a safety or regulatory point of view? Why?
Question 2b. What would be
your recommendation on labeling considering the regulatory requirements?
You have just finished
training the entire workforce about chemical hazards. The training was not well
received by the workforce, and they generally appeared to be bored;
end-of-class quizzes indicated that they did not really grasp the essential
information. You do not understand how this could be because you carefully went
over the MSDS/SDS for each chemical that a given group of workers were
potentially exposed to and explained in detail the precautions they needed to
take.
Question 3a. What most
likely went wrong in this training?
Question 3b. How could
future training be improved, including the explanation of chemical hazards
without specifically addressing each chemical?
During the inventory, you
find a quart can of a chemical with a label in the maintenance shop. You find
out that the shop personnel only use it occasionally and for unfreezing rusted
bolts. They do not seem to know anything about the chemical’s potential
hazards, and the wording on the container is not totally legible, so you are
not sure what the hazards are either.
Question 4a. How would find
out about the proper use, storage, and disposal of this chemical?
Question 4b. How would you
identify the chemical as hazardous, or as not hazardous?
During an inventory, you
come across an unlabeled five-gallon container of a chemical on which someone
has written a chemical name.
Question 5. What should you
do, if anything, about this container?
Use complete sentences when
formulating your responses, and use APA format when writing your responses.
Your paper must be a minimum of two pages in length, not including title and
reference pages. Provide examples in your discussions, and support your answers
with appropriate references and in-text citations.
(Course Book is Hazardous
Material Management and Hazard Communication by Joel M. Haight)