SECTION IV: SPECIFIC SAFETY RESPONSIBILITIES

ADMINISTRATORS

To provide a safe and healthful working environment and to establish and administer appropriate environmental health and safety programs for constituents of Community Colleges of Spokane:

1. Establish, supervise and enforce in a manner which is effective in practice:

A. a safe and healthful learning and working environment (WAC 296-24-020 (1) (a);

B. a formal written accident prevention program, as required by WAC 296-24-040, which is tailored to the needs of the particular plant or operation and to the type of hazards involved, and which will include, as a minimum:

· a safety orientation program describing the employer's safety program;

· a designated safety and health committee (according to requirements of WAC 296-24-045) consisting of management and employee representatives with employee representatives elected by fellow employees.

C. training programs to improve the skill and competency of all employees in the field of occupational safety and health. Such training shall include the on-the-job instructions on the safe use of powered materials handling equipment, machine tool operations, use of toxic materials and operation of utility systems prior to assignments to jobs involving such exposures (WAC 296-24-020 (1) (c).

D. An accident investigation program. WAC 296-24-020 (2)

E. A system for reporting of fatality or multiple hospitalization accidents. WAC 296-24-020 (3)

F. A system for maintaining records of occupational injuries and illnesses, as prescribed by WAC 296-27-030, to include recording of occupational injury and illness information on forms OSHA 101 - Supplementary Record Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (or a substitute form containing the same information) and OSHA 200 - Log and Summary. WAC 296-24-020 (4) and (5)

2. Shall not allow employees to utilize machinery, tools, materials or equipment, whether owned by the employer or under control of another firm or individual, which does not meet the compliance requirements of Chapter 296-24 WAC, or any other applicable vertical standard of a specific industry. WAC 296-24-020 (6)

3. Shall post and keep posted a notice or notices, to be furnished by the Washington State Division of Industrial Safety and Health, Department of Labor and Industries, informing employees of the protections and obligations provided for in the act. These notices include:

· WISHA poster, job safety and health protection, Form F416-081-000, (R-8/92) ;

· "Notice to Employees - If a job injury occurs...", Form #P242-191-000 (6/92).

Such notice or notices shall be posted at each establishment in a conspicuous place or places where notices to employees are customarily posted. The employer shall take steps to assure that such notices are not altered, defaced or covered by other materials. WAC 296-24-020 (7)

At CCS, responsibility for maintenance of designated environmental health and safety bulletin boards in each major college facility is that of the Environmental Health and Safety Committee members or building safety representatives, as assigned to specific facilities by the safety officer.

4. Furnish to each employee of Community Colleges of Spokane a place of employment free from recognized hazards that are causing or likely to cause serious injury or death to said employees. WAC 296-24-073 (1)

5. Shall furnish and use safety devices and safeguards; shall adopt and use practices, means, methods, operations, and processes reasonably adequate to render the employment and place of employment safe, to do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life and safety of employees, nor shall construct or cause to be constructed any place of employment that is not safe. WAC 296-24-073 (2,4 and 5)

6. Shall not require any employee to go or be in any employment or place of employment which is not safe. WAC 296-24-073 (3)

7. Shall implement and oversee compliance with environmentally correct hazardous materials management procedures, including purchasing practices, safe chemical handling, usage, storage and proper disposal of any hazardous wastes generated.

8. Shall operate Community Colleges of Spokane in compliance with applicable local, state and national environmental health and safety regulations, including, but not limited to, mandatory requirements of local fire departments; Spokane County Air Pollution Control Authority (SCAPCA); the Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act (WISHA) as administered by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&I); Washington State Department of Ecology (DOE); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

(Refer also to the section of this document entitled SPECIFIC SAFETY RESPONSIBILITIES: All CCS Employees.)