Conversion Checklist - Safety Facilities | Process | Regulatory | Safety Are your existing handling facilities/practices applicable to the new chemicals? Are your existing handling facilities/practices adequate? Are your existing handling facilities/practices excessive and can they be simplified? Are the new chemicals flammable as stored or as used in the new process? Are there sufficient procedures in place to avoid hazard? Do you need to increase, decrease, or maintain operator eye protection? Do you need to increase, decrease, or maintain operator hearing protection? Do you need to increase, decrease, or maintain operator breathing apparatus? Do you need to increase, decrease, or maintain ventilation levels for operator safety? Do you need to increase, decrease, or maintain air cleaning level to provide operator safety? Do you need to increase, decrease, or maintain operator protection for possible liquid spills - acids, alkali, heat, toxics? What are the threshold limit values (TLV's), American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) ventilation standards (including changes since older process implemented), and Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) procedures? Do you need to revise operator safety training? State Information | Glossary | Conversion Checklist | Comments Home | Process Advisor | Alternatives | Links | Search All SAGE material, Copyright© 1992, Research Triangle Institute Last Update: 22 January 1999 sage@rti.org http://clean.rti.org/chklistsafe.cfm