chemical manufacturer
Read the following scenario,and answer the questions following each sectionzThe 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
Ho8 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?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
chemicals 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 completesentences when formulating your responses, and use APA format when
writing your responses Your paper must be a minimum of two pages in length, not