Safety and Health Plan Component - Comprehensive Work Plan

Another component of the written safety and health program is a comprehensive work plan. A work plan describes the anticipated cleanup activities for a response team. Since work plans are so comprehensive, they may require input from on-site and off-site management or consultants (such as chemists, occupational safety and health professionals, and statisticians).

When creating a work plan, management should do the following:

• Review available information needed to create a work plan. This may include (but is not limited to) the following documents:
  • Site records
  • Waste inventories
  • Generator and transporter manifests
  • Previous sampling and monitoring data
  • Site photos
  • State and local environmental and health agency records
• Define work objectives
• Determine methods for accomplishing the objectives (for example, taking inventory or recording disposal techniques)
• Determine personnel requirements
• Determine the need for additional training of personnel and evaluate their current knowledge/skill level against the tasks they will perform and situations they may encounter
• Determine equipment requirements
• Evaluate the need for special equipment or services

The company should periodically reexamine and update the work plan as it learns new information about site conditions (or as site conditions change).

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