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Facility Housekeeping
Keeping storage and work areas clean and well organized?
Keeping non-hazardous materials from being contaminated?
Restricting traffic through storage areas to reduce likelihood of contamination or spillage of
stored material?
Storing containers to allow for visual inspection of corrosion and leaks?
Stacking containers in a way to minimize the chance for tipping, puncturing, or breaking?
Raising drums off the floor to prevent corrosion from leaks or sweating concrete?
Dispensing and transferring materials using pumps or gravity fed spigots and funnels?
Using floating lids on liquid storage containers to prevent loss of materials through
evaporation or contamination?
Converts to reusable shipping pallets?
Designing responsibility for process fluid recycling, maintenance and replacement?
Spills and Leak Control
Installing splash guards and drip boards on tanks and faucets?
Routinely inspecting and maintaining valves, pipe joints, pumps, tanks, etc?
Using all welded piping construction, double seals and bellows-sealed valves?
Using seal-less pumps?
Keeping tanks and containers covered to prevent spills, evaporation. And contamination?
Covering waste disposal areas and recycling bins to avoid rainwater infiltration?
Using drip pans under vehicles?
Using overflow control devices on process vessels and storage tanks?
Installing spill basins and dikes in storage areas?
Sweeping or vacuuming floors before washing to keep soils out of drains?
Using pans, trays or wringable pads for capturing and retrieving spilled liquids instead of
granular absorbent?
Regularly inspecting dumpsters and compactors for spills and stains?
