Current through August 26, 2024
(1) MAINTENANCE AND
OPERATION OF FACILITY. A facility generating or accumulating hazardous
secondary material shall be maintained and operated to minimize the possibility
of a fire, explosion, or any unplanned sudden or non -sudden release of
hazardous secondary material or hazardous secondary material constituents to
air, soil, or surface water that could threaten human health or the
environment.
(2) REQUIRED
EQUIPMENT. All facilities generating or accumulating hazardous secondary
material shall be equipped with all of the following, unless none of the
hazards posed by hazardous secondary material handled at the facility could
require a particular kind of equipment specified below:
(a) An internal communications or alarm
system capable of providing immediate emergency instruction, voice or signal,
to facility personnel.
(b) A
device, such as a telephone, immediately available at the scene of operations,
or a hand-held two-way radio, capable of summoning emergency assistance from
local police departments, fire departments, or state or local emergency
response teams.
(c) Portable fire
extinguishers, fire control equipment, including special extinguishing
equipment, such as that using foam, inert gas, or dry chemicals; spill control
equipment, and decontamination equipment.
(d) Water at adequate volume and pressure to
supply water hose streams, foam producing equipment, automatic sprinklers, or
water spray systems.
(3)
TESTING AND MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT. All facility communications or alarm
systems, fire protection equipment, spill control equipment, and
decontamination equipment, where required, shall be tested and maintained as
necessary to assure its proper operation in time of emergency.
(4) ACCESS TO COMMUNICATIONS OR ALARM SYSTEM.
(a) Whenever hazardous secondary material is
being poured, mixed, spread, or otherwise handled, all personnel involved in
the operation shall have immediate access to an internal alarm or emergency
communication device, either directly or through visual or voice contact with
another employee, unless such a device is not required under sub.
(2).
(b) If there is ever just one
employee on the premises while the facility is operating, the employee shall
have immediate access to a device, such as a telephone, available at the scene
of operation, or a hand-held two-way radio, capable of summoning external
emergency assistance, unless such a device is not required under sub.
(2).
(5) REQUIRED AISLE
SPACE. The hazardous secondary material generator or intermediate or
reclamation facility shall maintain aisle space to allow the unobstructed
movement of personnel, fire protection equipment, spill control equipment, and
decontamination equipment to any area of facility operation in an emergency,
unless aisle space is not needed for any of these purposes.
(6) ARRANGEMENTS WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES.
(a) The hazardous secondary material
generator or an intermediate or reclamation facility shall attempt to make all
of the following arrangements, as appropriate for the type of waste handled at
the facility and the potential need for the services of these organizations:
1. Arrangements to familiarize police, fire
departments, and emergency response teams with the layout of the facility,
properties of hazardous secondary material handled at the facility and
associated hazards, places where facility personnel would normally be working,
entrances to roads inside the facility, and possible evacuation
routes.
2. Where more than one
police and fire department might respond to an emergency, agreements
designating primary emergency authority to a specific police department and a
specific fire department, and agreements with any others to provide support to
the primary emergency authority.
3.
Agreements with state emergency response teams, emergency response contractors,
and equipment suppliers.
4.
Arrangements to familiarize local hospitals with the properties of hazardous
waste handled at the facility and the types of injuries or illnesses that could
result from fires, explosions, or releases at the facility.
(b) When state or local
authorities decline to enter into such arrangements, the hazardous secondary
material generator or an intermediate or reclamation facility shall document
the refusal in the operating record.
