STATEMENT OF WORK
Requisition #: 286328
Title: Develop a Chemical Worker I & II Training Program
Revision Number: 0
Date: 12/21/15
Prior SOW or Revision Date: N/A
1.0Objective
Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) Tank Operations Contractor desires to engage a Subcontractor with demonstrated past experience of creating corporate employee training programs within the Industrial Safety and or Hygiene arena. The Subcontractor will develop a Chemical Worker training program designed to address a companywide need for comprehensive chemical hazard training. Having a better understanding of the concepts to be addressed in this program will help general workers, first line supervisors, management and subcontractors to recognize chemical hazards and to assure proper worker protection is being utilized.
2.0Background/Introduction
In October of 2014, an independent assessment team requested by the Tank Operations Contract (TOC) organization to address chemical exposure concerns by the workers issued the Hanford Tank Vapor Assessment Report (TVAR) (SRNL-RP-2014-00791). The TVAR addressed that the Chemical Hazard Awareness Training (CHAT) presently being conducted by TOC does cover tank farms hazards. However, a deficiency in chemical hazard training for the general worker in the workplace still exists. Therefore, a Chemical Worker training program needs to be created.
3.0Scope
The subcontractor shall create a large scale Chemical Worker Training Program. The Chemical Worker program shall be modular in nature, cover general worker overview training, and shall provide site specific secondary training designed to address hazards specific to each assigned work area.
Subcontractor will perform the first three stages of the ADDIE process which are Analysis, Design and Development in accordance with WRPS procedure TFC-BSM-TQ_ADD-C-01 as referenced below in Section 6.2, Applicable Standards. Specifically as follows:
Analysis Section:
- Needs Analysis
- Job Analysis
- Task Analysis
- Task to Training Matrix
Design Section:
- Training Plan
- Terminal Objective (s), Enabling Objectives, Skills/Knowledge/Abilities (SKA’s)
- Test Format/Test Bank
Development:
- Lesson Plan
- Training Materials
- Student Guide
The program will consist of a training manual and lesson plans for the instructor(s) and include any testing criteria to be used. Student manuals will be developed for use. WRPS, the site contractor will provide training for the instructors and the facility to be used for the course. The general worker training or Chemical Worker I shall cover, but not be exclusive to:
1) Fundamentals
a) Chemical characteristics such as hazards, solid, gas, or vapor, potential for greater hazard if mixed with other chemicals, and health effects.
b) Sampling vs. monitoring and the units of measurement attached to each.
c) Differences between volatile and semi-volatile chemicals and chemical compounds.
d) Engineering controls that can be employed to counteract exposures.
e) Similar Exposure Groups (SEGs), what are they.
f) Similarities/differences between Occupational Exposure Limits (OELs), Time Weighted Averages (TWAs), and Short Term Exposure Limits (STELs).
g) Laws, codes, and regulations that apply to the chemical worker in reference to worker’s rights and responsibilities.
2) Health Effects
a) Explanation of the TOC Industrial Hygiene Chemical Vapor Technical Basis (RPP-22491) and how it is implemented.
b) Differences between vapor sources that are created by processes, mixtures, etc. and background sources.
c) Routes of entry and biological effects.
d) Toxicology such as terms and definitions used on site and chemical effects on organs because of exposures.
e) Occupational exposures vs. Non-occupational exposures
f) Risk communication on chemicals that workers can come in contact with.
g) Signs and symptoms of exposures.
3) As Low as Reasonably Achievable (ALARA)
a) Explain the concept in reference to chemical exposures such as using time and distance to lessen or prevent an exposure.
b) Explain the dispersion modeling principle in reference to chemical travel and concentration.
c) Explain the use of exposure assessments.
d) Emergency responses.
e) Source reduction.
4) Chemical dosages
a) Discuss different OELs, TLVs, and PELs and established exposure and action limits.
b) Discuss the potential effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and radioactivity on chemicals and chemical compounds.
5) Postings and Controls
a) Discuss the use of the Industrial Hygiene Work Permit.
b) Discuss the worker’s responsibilities.
c) Discuss the different postings the worker can come in contact with on the job site [i.e. beryllium, asbestos, vapor control zones (VCZs), vapor reduction zones (VRZs)].
d) Discuss the criteria and differences between VCZs and VRZs.
6) Monitoring/Sampling
a) Discuss when each is used.
b) Discuss the needs for area/source monitoring and for area/source/and personal sampling.
c) Discuss how the Site Wide Industrial Hygiene Database (SWIHD) is used.
d) Discuss direct reading instrumentation.
e) Explain about the Employee Job Task Analysis (EJTA) and the medical monitoring program.
f) Discuss the IH instrumentation the worker could come in contact with on the job site as well as new technology that could be employed.
7) Exposure controls
a) Discuss further the different forms chemicals in which chemicals can appear.
b) Discuss emission sources for some exposure.
c) Discuss the potential symptoms of contact with a chemical, including exposure or over exposure that could be reported as related to a specific route of exposure.
d) Discuss proper personal protective equipment (PPE) such as clothing, respiratory protection, and protective gloves.
e) Discuss the medical evaluation and biological monitoring that would be required following an exposure or over exposure with noticeable signs and symptoms and the evaluation that would be offered when no noticeable signs or symptoms are reported.
8) Chemical Emergencies
a) Explain what and Abnormal Operation Procedure (AOP) is and the response required for a reported vapor or odor concern.
b) Discuss how an air sample is analyzed and what the data represents.
c) Discuss the required responses to IH instrument alarms.
d) Discuss required responses to reported AOPs.
e) Discuss self-protection measures other than PPE.
f) Discuss the use of a chemical hazard assessment.
g) Discuss odor response protocols.
The secondary site-specific training or Chemical Worker II will encompass all of the above topics but will also cover more specialized training for an assigned work area. Topics for Chemical Worker II should cover, but not be exclusive to:
1) Chemical constituents used in processes during the work being performed as either a single compound or a mixture.
2) The more specific results of effects by a single or compound mixture that a worker will more than likely come in contact with during the course of an assigned task.
3) Proper procedures and protective measures to be employed by a worker to minimized exposures to the single chemical or mixture of chemicals coming in contact with. This would be above and beyond the generalized topics.
4) How exposures to these specific chemicals could acutely and chronically effect a worker and what a high concentration, short duration exposure may consist of.
5) How to respond to the various IH instrument alarms the worker can come in contact with during the performance of an activity (i.e. handheld instrument alarms vs. area instrument alarms).
6) How to respond to information imparted to the worker for non-alarming IH instrumentation.
7) Understanding the information given to the worker on what they could be subjected to for a potential exposure.
8) Hierarchy of controls and how they are used in a specific work area.
9) Hands-on component containing a simulated work environment containing common used instrumentation, responses required for different conditions, the reasons for certain sampling or monitoring being conducted for a given task.
4.0Submittals
Submittals shall be provided using the TOC Incoming Letter of Transmittal (form A-6005-315). All transmittal subject headings shall contain, at a minimum, the subcontract number, submittal number, and submittal description. Please see Master Submittal Register associated with this project.
Submittals shall be provided in electronic format unless available only as a hard copy. Electronic submittals may be sent to or delivered via a WRPS designated File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site. Electronic formats must be non-password protected in one of the following formats:
- Microsoft® Office Compatible
- Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG)
- Portable Document Format (PDF)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
- HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
- Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
- Comma Separated Values (CSV)
- Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
- Text (TXT)
- Windows Media Video (WMV)
5.0Acceptance Criteria
Deliverables are outlined within the Master Submittal Register and will be accepted by WRPS Training Department Designee.
6.0 Configuration Management and Standards
6.1Configuration Management Requirements
New or revised Technical Documents shall be prepared in accordance with TFC-BSM-AD-STD-02, Editorial Standards for Technical Documents and meet the document release criteria found in Table 3 of TFC-ENG-DESIGN-C-25, Technical Document Control.
Design Analysis documentation shall include (1) through (6) below: (1) definition of the objective of the analysis; (2) definition of analysis inputs and their sources; (3) results of literature searches or other applicable background data; (4) identification of assumptions and indication of those that must be verified as the design proceeds; (5) identification of any computer calculation including computer type, computer program (e.g., name), revision identification, inputs, outputs, evidence of or reference to computer program verification and the bases (or reference thereto) supporting application of the computer program to the specific physical problem; (6) review and approval.
6.2 Applicable Standards
APPLICABLE REGULATIONS AND TOC TRAINING STANDARDS
Number / Title1. / 29 CFR 1910 / Occupational Safety and Health
2. / 10 CFR 851 / Worker Safety and Health Program
3. / TFC-BSM-TQ_ADD-
C-01 / Conduct of Training Administration
4. / TFC-BSM-TQ_IMP-C-03 / Control of Vendor Training
7.0 ESH&Q Requirements
7.1 Quality Assurance Requirements
The Subcontractor shall follow standard commercial quality practices.
7.1.1 Quality Assurance Oversight
WRPS personnel will co-ordinate with the supplier to conduct scheduled and periodic oversight of activities or products associated with this scope of work.
7.1.2 Quality Assurance Requirements for Analytical Laboratory Services
Not Applicable.
7.2 Price-Anderson Amendments Act Requirements
This 7.2 section and the General Provisions Article 2.11 entitled, Price-Anderson Amendments Act (PAAA), are both determined to be N/A.
7.3 Special ESH&Q Requirements
Preliminary hazard assessment PHA ID: 32 is to be used for general office duties performed in TOC-controlled office facilities and/or observations/walkthroughs in tank farm non-radiological and radiologically controlled areas, including soil contamination areas and buffer areas, requiring a General (Not Specific) Radiological Work Permit (RWP) only. Observation activities only are allowed; no hands-on work activities may be performed. No ladder/scaffolding access is allowed. Prior to performing any other activities, a job hazard analysis (JHA) must be completed to cover the activities to be performed. The JHA must be approved by a TOC Safety Representative.
8.0 Verification/Hold Points
There are no verification or hold points identified for this work.
9.0Reserved
10.0Work Location/Potential Access Requirements
Work will be performed at the subcontractors’ facility with periodic visits to on-site facilities.
11.0Training
Subcontractor employees performing on site visits are required to take HGET training prior to visiting the Hanford Site.
12.0Qualifications
Subcontractor shall have a minimum of 5 years’ experience developing Industrial Safety/Health training programs. The Subcontractor shall also employ a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to verify accuracy of all training products prior to submission. SME shall have a minimum of 5 years’ experience as well. Please submit experience records per Section 4.0 of this SOW and Master Submittal Register (MSR).
13.0Special Requirements
Use of Government Vehicles
There is no anticipated need for any Subcontractor employees to use a Government-furnished vehicle in the performance of this statement of work. The Subcontractor’s employees, therefore, are specifically prohibited from driving any Government-furnished vehicles under the performance of this statement of work unless this statement of work is formally so modified by the parties and the employee(s) will present a valid driver’s license to the BTR for review.
14.0Reporting/Administration
Status reports will be submitted monthly to the TOC point of contact to report updates and address questions and issues as they arise.
15.0Workplace Substance Abuse Program Requirements
A Workplace Substance Abuse Program is not required for this SOW.
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