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Appendix B Department of Defense and Navy Directives and Regulations Relating to the Use of Hazardous Materials
Appendix B Department of Defense and Navy Directives and Regulations Relating to the Use of Hazardous Materials
Pages 67-76
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The purpose of this section is to review and summarize those documents, to assess whether the Navy management system for handling hazardous material clearly states its policy with regard to how such materials should be handled, who is responsible for implementing the policy decisions, and whether the Navy Environmental Health Center (NEHC) is adequately chartered to carry out the mission assigned to it.
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evaluate hazardous-material decisions using economic analysis techniques that match the magnitude of the decision being made, cost factors, and other intangible factors; and (3) begin economic analysis of hazardousmaterial decisions at the earliest possible stage of the life cycle and modify analyses whenever better information becomes available.
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DOD Instruction 6055.1 of 26 Oct 1984: DOD Occupational Safely and Health Program This instruction establishes DOD policy that requires DOD units to establish and maintain comprehensive and aggressive occupational, safety, and health programs to protect all personnel from work-related deaths, injuries, or illnesses. DOD Instruction 6055.5 of 10 Jan 1989: Inclustrial Hygiene and Occupational Health This instruction establishes uniform procedures for recognizing and evaluating health risks associated with exposure to chemical, physical, and biological stressors in the workplace.
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This instruction also requires establishment of uniform procedures to evaluate safety and health risks associated with exposure to chem~cal, physical, and biological stressors in Navy workplaces. It also requires identification of safety concerns related to emerging technology, as well as the establishment and maintenance of a formal hazard-tracking system, to ensure that significant hazards identified during system safety program reviews are properly documented, tracked, and resolved.
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Procedures must be developed for the safe and environmentally acceptable use, stowage, and disposal or demilitarization of any hazardous materials and equipment associated with the system. Data must also be developed to identify and control hazardous materials and items, including selection of the least-hazardous alternative and provide safety and health requirements with the planned maintenance system cards, along with material safety data sheets.
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Also, the Navy is to develop, maintain, and distribute technical information on health risks and assessments for hazardous materials used in Navy workplaces and operations. NEHC is to provide commanders and commanding officers with technical assistance in evaluating and monitoring the use of hazardous materials in the workplace, prescribing precautionary measures, and assisting shore activities in developing authorized hazardous-materials use lists.
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NEHC has recently begun a comprehensive program, in cooperation with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carterock Division, to become a major player in ah decisions made about whether to allow a potentially hazardous material on ships, and inclusion in the Shipboard Hazardous Material List. Requests by fleet and NAVSEA program managers for use of new materials must first receive NEHC review, along with line command consideration of the need any benefits of the new material.
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BUMEDINST 4110.1 of 30 Aug 1993: Hazardous Material Control and Management This instruction establishes the policy, guidance, and requirements for the life-cycle control and TQL of hazardous material acquired and used by the Navy Medical Department. It tasks NEHC to assist Navy systems commands, program managers, and medical department activities in support of the Hazardous Material Control and Management Program.
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New materials identified at operational unit levels are reviewed by the safety office of the operational command or by the regional Navy occupational medical department. If the information needed for assessment purposes is beyond that available to the local medical department representatives, the local industrial hygienist is directed to refer the request to the NEHC, where it will be evaluated.
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NEHC is to coordinate with the Navy's ID in developing assessments for review of toxicological data, determining additional research required, estimating resource availability and project duration, and estimating additional resources required to advance such a project to meet the requesting command's deadlines. NEHC is directed to disseminate information, as appropriate, on the hazards identified to ensure control of potential exposures and protect the health of personnel working with the new material.
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