Checklist to Complete a Combustible Dust Safety Program Mobile App

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  Use the following checklist as you are developing your written combustible dust safety program, t...

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  Before you start writing or revising your written procedures:

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  Read and understand any regulations, laws, and/or consensus standards related to combustible dust.

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  Review insurance or incident records to see if your company suffered combustible dust-related inc...

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  Identify combustible dust/ignition hazards and affected high-hazard areas.

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  Examine your current practices for controlling combustible dust and combustible dust-related fire...

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  Develop a budget/time line for developing and implementing the program.

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  Obtain management commitment to your combustible dust safety program.

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  Assemble a team to develop your combustible dust safety program.

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  When writing the procedures:

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  Meet with management to determine tentative written program content.

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  Document who provides input to the development of the program.

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  Determine which elements you want to include in the program:

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  Purpose — This section is a statement of the company’s commitment to protect the safety of employ...

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  Administrative Duties — This section assigns responsibility for developing and maintaining this p...

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  Dust and Ignition Sources — This section lists the potential sources of dust and ignition at the ...

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  Employee Participation — This section explains how employees are involved in assessing hazards, d...

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  Hazard Assessment — This section describes hazard assessments performed to identify combustible d...

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  Control Measures — This section provides measures to control dust, ignition sources, and the exte...

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  Inspection — This section lists inspectors and inspection elements.

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  Maintenance — This section goes over maintenance of dust-generating processes, dust collection sy...

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  Management of Change — This section explains how changes in dust producing materials, technology,...

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  Information and Training — This section lists trainers, trainees, topics, and formats.

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  Recordkeeping and Reporting—This section lists maintained records and describes any reporting per...

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  Emergency Action Plan — This section refers to the company’s emergency action plan.

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  Incident Investigation — This section describes the company’s combustible dust incident investiga...

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  Program Evaluation — This section gives procedures for evaluating the written program’s effective...

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  Appendices — This section lists attached documents.

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