SOP Title: Environmental Health and Safety Procedure
- Objective:
To lay down procedure for environmental, health and safety at the site
- Scope:
This procedure is applicable to following aspects of environmental health and safety:
- Safe work practice
- Sign and Tags
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Medical Examination
- First Aids Procedures
- Emergency Equipment and Facility
- Waste Management
- Documentation of Training
- Responsibility:
| HODs | : | Shall be responsible for identifying the needs and ensuring compliance of procedure in their departments. |
| HOD Admin | : | Shall be responsible for arrangement of safety requirements including equipment and medical examination as per procedure |
| HOD QA | : | Shall be responsible for developing procedure, counter checking the requirements, compliance reports, and records thereof. |
- Accountability:
Head QA department
- Procedure:
5.1 Definitions:
QA Associate: Executive or officer of QA Department or any personnel trained to perform duties as per this SOP.
QC Associate: Executive or officer of QC Department or any personnel trained to perform duties as per this SOP.
Production Associate: Executive or officer of Production Department or any personnel Trained to perform duties as per this SOP
Hazardous waste: Means any waste which by reason of any of its physical, chemical, reactive, toxic, flammable, explosive or corrosive characteristics causes danger or is likely to cause danger to health or environment, whether alone or when in contact with other wastes or substances.
Scraps: Include rejected packing materials, labels, container, used poly bags, paper, used gloves, clothes, masks, cupboard, plastics, glass etc.
5.2 Procedure:
| 5.2.1 | The need of safety system for health and environment shall be assessed, determined and documented by the key personnel/safety team in the premise. | |
| 5.2.2. | Safe Work Practice | |
| 5.2.2.1 | All equipment and machinery shall be provided with SOPs for operation, cleaning, maintenance & safety. | |
| 5.2.2.2 | All areas shall be provided with appropriate fire extinguishers at strategic points. | |
| 5.2.2.3 | All areas like production, warehouse, storage, quality control etc shall be well lit and provided with adequate HVAC/Ventilation system depending on the nature of process. | |
| 5.2.2.4 | QC laboratory shall be provided with lab specific SOPs for fuming room, eye shower, wet shower, hazardous chemical storage and handling, safe disposal of chemicals etc and all personnel shall be trained on these. | |
| 5.2.2.5 | MSDS supplied by the chemical/equipment supplier shall be referred and instructions are followed properly where required. | |
| 5.2.2.6 | Sign and Tags
DANGER- signs shall be used only where immediate hazards exist. CAUTION- signs shall be used to warn of potential hazards or unsafe practices. SAFETY INSTRUCTION- signs shall be used where there is a need for general information and suggestions relative to safety measures. |
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| 5.2.2.7 | The Engineering department regularly monitors all mechanical breakdowns and electrical safety in the premise as per SOP. | |
| 5.2.3. | Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) | |
| 5.2.3.1 | Proper gowning, personal protective equipment’s system shall be followed by the personnel during working in the site as specified for area/activity. | |
| 5.2.3.2 | Following types of personnel protective equipment shall be available and used by the personnel while handling with the chemical substance or hazardous substance or during any maintenance work in the premise, as applicable:
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| 5.2.4 | Medical Examination | |
| 5.2.4.1 | All personnel working in the premise shall be monitored for their medical examination initially and periodically as per SOP | |
| 5.2.5 | First Aid Procedures | |
| 5.2.5.1 | All areas shall be provided with first aid facility. First aid kit shall be located at right places in all departments; all the staff members must be familiar and trained with the use of first aid kit. Following types of first aid actions may be taken while taking incident with hazardous substance:
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| 5.2.6 | Emergency Equipment and Facility | |
| 5.2.6.1 | In case of any accident occurred within the premise like serious injury, damage to property, fire or toxic release, emergency services shall be arranged by the organisational emergency squad as deputed/nominated time to time. | |
| 5.2.6.2 | Each working area e.g. manufacturing, warehouse, laboratory shall have emergency exit doors with proper labelling/signs for safety. | |
| 5.2.6.3 | Fire fighting equipment:
· Water pipe 2’’ around the factory connected ETP pollute and overhead water tank · Portable fire extinguisher of ABC type. · Fire bucket stands with water and sand. Emergency medical service: Emergency medical service shall be promptly arranged by the squad as nominated/deputed by the Unit Head on timely basis as per Annexure. |
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| 5.2.7 | Waste Management | |
| 5.2.7.1 | Any kind of waste shall not be accumulated/dumped or thrown in to environment. Proper laid down procedure shall be followed for handling the waste materials. | |
| 5.2.7.2 | Hazardous waste or scraps generated during processing/operation, handling or storage in production area shall be handled as per SOP. | |
| 5.2.7.3 | Waste Disposal Procedure:
Label Waste- Hazardous waste label shall be affixed on all waste containers Store Waste – Hazardous waste shall be stored in closed containers and must be under the control of the person generating & disposing it. Dispose of Waste- Disposal of regularly generated chemical waste and scrap shall be done within two months as per SOP of Waste management. |
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| 5.2.7.4 | Special precautions such as wearing proper gowning, masks, gloves and other protective equipment shall be taken during collection, transfer, storage and disposal of hazardous waste. | |
| 5.2.8 | Documentation of Training | |
| 5.2.8.1 | Training shall be provided to all personnel specific to the hazards involved and safety procedure for substance, work area, safety equipment, health and hygiene and emergency procedures prior to assigning job responsibility and records shall be maintained. | |
| 5.2.8.2 | Special safety training regarding evacuation, communication, use of fire fighting equipment, use of protective equipment, first aids, etc shall be given to the personnel working in the site. | |
| 5.2.8.3 | A periodical audit after every six months including provisions to check health and safety regulation compliance and training updates shall be conducted and records shall be maintained as per Annexure. | |
| 5.2.8.4 | The employees shall be responsible to follow Health & Safety procedure |
- Abbreviation:
| Abbreviation: | Expansion |
| SOP | Standard Operating Procedure |
| PD | Production Department |
| WH | Warehouse Department |
| QC | Quality Control Department |
| QAP | Quality Assurance Procedure |
| QA | Quality Assurance Department |
| MSDS | Material Safety Data Sheet |
| HVAC | Heating Ventilation and air conditioning |
| EGD | Engineering Department |
| HR | Human Resource |
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