{"id":2154,"date":"2010-06-22T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2010-06-22T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:45:07","slug":"epa-to-seek-employee-participation-in-chemical-safety-inspections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/epa-to-seek-employee-participation-in-chemical-safety-inspections\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA to Seek Employee Participation in Chemical Safety Inspections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong> \u2013 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released interim guidance that would provide greater transparency in the agency\u2019s chemical safety inspections process.\u00a0 Under the interim guidance, EPA inspectors will offer employees and employee representatives the opportunity to participate in chemical safety inspections.\u00a0 In addition, EPA will request that state and local agencies adopt similar procedures under the Risk Management Program.\u00a0 EPA believes that close involvement of employees and employee representatives in inspections is effective and better protects workers and the adjacent communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The interim guidance pertains to inspections conducted by EPA under the agency\u2019s Risk Management Program (RMP).\u00a0 Through this program, EPA seeks to reduce the risks to surrounding communities that arise from the management, use or storage of certain hazardous chemicals.\u00a0 Owners and operators of covered facilities must develop a risk management plan, which includes facility plans for the prevention and response to chemical accidents.\u00a0 Under the Clean Air Act, the Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions require facilities that produce, handle, process, distribute, or store certain chemicals to develop a Risk Management Program, prepare a risk management plan, and submit the plan to EPA.<\/p>\n<p>EPA expects to issue final guidance on participation of employees and employee representative in RMP inspections later this year.<\/p>\n<p>More information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/oem\/content\/rmp\/index.htm\"target=\u201d_blank\u201d>EPA\u2019s interim guidance and RMP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/oem\/content\/lawsregs\/rmpover.htm\"target=\u201d_blank\u201d>Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released interim guidance that would provide greater transparency in the agency\u2019s chemical safety inspections process.\u00a0 Under the interim guidance, EPA inspectors will offer employees and employee representatives the opportunity to participate in chemical safety inspections.\u00a0 In addition, EPA will request that state and local agencies adopt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/epa-to-seek-employee-participation-in-chemical-safety-inspections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EPA to Seek Employee Participation in Chemical Safety Inspections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}