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Professional Contracts Involving Health and Safety Plans 1. H A S P prepared for Kennewick General Hospital, Kennewick, WA — August, 1999 As a result of complaints from this Client's Laboratory and its Pathology Departments, 1 rec- ommended and prepared a formal Health and Safety Plan that focused most particularly on those operations in which any type of employee chemical exposures might occur—i.e., operating rooms, kidney dialysis facilities, laboratory environments,etc. The H A S P was accepted as written and has been implemented. 2. H A S P prepared for Integrity Plus, Inc., French Camp, CA —June, 2001 This Client is involved in the resurfacing of various vehicle roadways, most commonly using a polymer based road surface material in its contracts. Since these materials virtually always con- tain volatile and potentially dangerous solvents(most commonly,styrene), I recommended that a formal Health and Safety Plan be prepared and adopted. To that end, I prepared a H A S P for this Client,and oversaw its implementation on their next project, which was the resurfacing of a large vehicle bridge in Paso Robles,CA. 3. Reviewed the H A S P of Lamb-Weston Corp. of Richland, WA — March, 2002 Working with a professional associate in the Richland,WA,area, I reviewed the Health and Safety Plan of this Client(a large potato processor) with particular focus on operations involving worker exposures to rotating machinery— i.e., product conveyors,etc. Recommended several changes relating to the operation and, particularly,to the servicing of these types of equipment. Recommended changes were appended to the HASP and implemented for future such activities. 4. H A S P prepared for Fluor Hanford Corp.,of Richland, WA— November,2003 Client was embarking on an unfamiliar process of unearthing and processing 38,000+drums of mixed radioactive and hazardous chemical wastes accumulated over a period of 55 years at the Hanford Site in south central Washington State. I received a contract to prepare a Health and Safety Plan focused on these activities—i.e.,the removal of these drums from the ground,and the evaluation of their contents as these factors related to the safety and health of the workers charged with carrying out these procedures. HASP prepared and currently in use. 5. H A S P prepared for Angels Camp Veterinary Hospital of San Andreas, CA —February 2004 This facility has experienced an accident that had occurred from the improper connection of a cylinder of oxygen to the veterinary operating room supply. The client wanted to implement a more secure procedure in order to prevent this sort of accident in the future. A formal HASP was prepared for this facility,and the workers who were going to be involved in veterinary sur- gery were trained in the new procedures. 6. H A S P reviewed for Harbor Offshore, Inc.of Long Beach,CA —April 2004 Harbor Offshore, Inc. was carrying out a contract for a complex underwater retrofit of a fish trapping facility upstream of the Tracy Pumping Plant, the facility that provides large volumes of water to Southern California. This facility is designed to prevent the game and other fish from being drawn into the large pumps for the California Aqueducts. The client wanted to have its HASP modified to comply with the requirements and specifications of CCR Title 8, the Cal OSHA Regulations. The required HASP modifications were made and implemented. Professional Work Involving Health and Safety Plans, continued 7. Reviewed the H A S P of Bechtel National Corp., of San Francisco, CA —June, 2004 Under a contract issued by the U. S. Department of Energy that had arisen from an increase in Bechtel National Corp. O S H A reportable accidents, I evaluated this company's established Health and Safety Plan as it related to its construction activities in completing a large hazardous waste treatment facility at the Hanford Site in south central Washington state. I identified several