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Annual HMMP and Inventory . Risk Management Plan (RMP) (DIES Certification Process Review of RMP's submitted in accordance In the envelope with this newsletter is the 1\4TG+Rit➢(C�TT TL9vfFvfTaTG.vTp� with the new CALARP program is almost annual HMMP and Inventory Certification 1lV IE W CyLLIE 11 ll Jl" R completed. We will be conducting required Package which is due by January 17, 2002. ID JE(C JE BU TB TLA TDA RMP inspections at the same time as the Businesses can use the enclosed lIUJ.C� 1J°aJ1V111ID11�1iS scheduled HMMP inspection in order to Certification Statement Form to verify thatF)i fl reduce visits to your facility site. Remember they have reviewed and updated their HMMP 22®® A that businesses that have a RMP and and chemical inventories and to report subsequently modify their facility are required changes only. It is important that business Hazardous Materials Specialist to notify OES and make necessary changes to owners/managers carefully read the Inspection Assignments and their RMP. instruction sheet and complete the Common Inspection Problems Certification Statement Form accurately. Inspection assignments are as follows: Clarifying Spill Reporting_ Changes to your inventory, Business Phil Cook: Lodi, Woodbridge, Thornton, Requirements Identification Page, HMMP, or Map must be Clements, Lockeford,Linden, and North part The Governor's Office of Emergency Services submitted with the Certification Form. of the Delta. has created a statewide committee to clarify Information that has not changed does not Mike Parissi: Ripon, Tracy, Manteca, the current confusing spill reporting have to be re-reported. Please contact OES at Lathrop, Escalon, French Camp, and the requirements. We will pass any new or (209) 465-3969 if you require assistance. Southern part of the Delta. clarified requirements developed by the State Robert Lopez and Natalia onto our business community for use in Important Reminder Subbotnikova: Stockton Area. determining when a spill needs to be Whenever there is a substantial change in reported. your business operations, you must submit a Our office, with the assistance in some cases copy of your revised HMMP to OES within of a fire department, continues to conduct Terrorism Preparedness 30 days of the operational change. Such facility inspections on a three year cycle. The County has been preparing for several reportable changes include, for example, a Please help us make the inspection a benefit years for response to acts of terrorism. We 100% increase in the quantity of a chemical to your company by having copies of your have provided our hospitals with a handled, addition of new chemicals to your HMMP, training records, and MSDS sheets considerable amount of personal protective inventory, a change of business address, a available for inspection. Keep in mind the equipment and decontamination showers. We change of business ownership, a change of following commonly encountered inspection have several decontamination tents for use in business name, or a change in telephone problems: the field and the Joint Hazardous Materials numbers. Team, Metropolitan Bomb Squad, and Public Business is unable to find a copy of Health Department have received appropriate Simplifying the HMMP Compliance its HMMP protective equipment for such a high risk Process The solution to this problem is to keep the environment. We advocate a reasoned Over 1,000 businesses use the electronic most current copy of the HMMP in a binder approach to this threat that first addresses verson of our Hazardous Materials in an area that is readily accessible to elements of preparedness needed for any type Management Plan forms to meet their employees or make more than one copy of of emergency. If you have questions on this compliance requirements. Currently, this your HMMP and make it available in several important topic, please give our office a call. process involves sending a business a disk locations at the business. or e-mail attachment which installs free Access to Chemical Inventories software on a computer at the business site. Business has no training records Due to the events of September 11th we In the next year, we hope to add the option The solution to this problem is to create a reluctantly restricted access in October to our of completing plans or submitting changes standard form for recording safety training to HMMP database web site by the general through our internet web site. However, in include space for the employee's signature, public. Public safety agencies can still order to design an effective and user friendly make a clear assignment of responsibility access the site through a pre-existing system, we need your input. Please complete within your business for maintaining the password system. The general public will and submit the enclosed survey form to records created, and fit safety training into have to return to making an appointment to assist us with the planning process. your business plan for the year so that it is come to our office to see business plans and not overlooked. inventories for at least the immediate future. New OES Staff Member The public will still have the right to see Natalia Subbotnikova joined our staff in Business has no MSDS sheets business plans and inventories within the June to replace Gary Robertson who left for a The solution to this problem is to make a trade secret and other restrictions established new position in Arizona. She will be request for MSDS sheets a standard element by law. working with businesses in the Stockton of your chemical ordering process and make a area. clear assignment of responsibility within OUR OFFICE WISHES YOU A your staff for keeping the MSDS sheets HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON! together in a separate binder.