Title: Tailgate Meeting 5
Course: Open PRO110 Safety, Health & Environment > Section: Module 5:Hazard Recognition and Control

Module Overview | Module Learning Objectives
How to Approach this Module

1. In order to achieve those learning objectives to the right, you will have to take action! For this module, you should:
2. First read, watch or listen to the Talk Through It mini-lectures.
3. Next Read the chapters assigned for this mod
4. Participate in the Toolbox and the Walk Through It discussion forum as outlined within the forum
5. Complete the You Do It assignments
6. Finally take the quiz for this mod.
After finishing this module, you will be able to do the following:

- Identify specific categories of hazardous chemicals used in the process industries.
- Explain the EPA regulations that impact the process industries.
- Identify  the various factors that can lead to leaks, spills, and releases.
- Describe the potential dangers of leaks, spills, and releases in the environment and the community.
- Describe the three major types of hazard controls: Engineering Administrative & PPE
- Discuss why, when, and how these controls are applied.
- Describe the role of alarms in providing a warning of conditions that can lead to emergencies, leaks, spills, and releases, and discuss the dangers of improper responses or failures of alarms
- Identify various engineering controls, specifically alarm and indication systems, used by the process industries to minimize and/or eliminate threats to health, safety, and the environment:
Fire alarms and detection systems, Toxic gas alarms and detection systems, Redundant alarm and shutdown devices, Automatic shutdown devices & Interlocks
- Know and understand actions required by process technicians when alarms occur.
- Know the two main types of alarm systems and how they operate.
- Recognize various engineering controls, specifically process containment and control systems, used by the process industries to minimize and/or eliminate threats to health, safety, and the environment
- Describe various engineering controls, specifically process upset control system used by the process industries to minimize and/or eliminate threats to health, and the environment.
- List common process fluids used in the process industries and describe the pc safety and health hazards posed by these materials.
- Describe various administrative controls, in the way of specific company SHE programs, used by the process industries to eliminate and/or minimize threats to safety, health, and the environment.
- Discuss various administrative controls, in the way of company SHE practices, used by the process industries to minimize and/or eliminate threats to safety, health, and the environment.
- Participate in safe work observations and provide feedback to coworkers on safe and potentially unsafe work practices.
- Conduct a site safety inspection and/or audit to identify potential workplace hazards.
- Describe general procedures for how to safely handle materials.
- Discuss the impact of government regulations and industry organization guidelines.