Formosa Plastic Cops. USA - Term Paper Example

ed nearly the whole of the reactor facility and the adjacent warehouse igniting Vinyl chloride resins stored in a warehouse with smoke drifting over the local community who were then evacuated and the facility remains shut down. The initial fire was caused and fuelled by Vinyl chloride monomer, raw material for Vinyl chloride manufacture, which is highly flammable and a known carcinogen. The explosion occurred when the bottom valve of an operating reactor was opened spilling its highly flammable contents.

The next section discusses the specific sections of 29 CFR 1910.146 that Formosa Plastics Corporation neglected. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Formosa Plastics Corporation did not comply with the Permit Required Confined Spaces 29CFR 1910.146. The sections of Permit Required Confined Spaces that were neglected are Training and Rescue and Emergency operations. Under the section of Training, Permit Required Confined Spaces requires that an employer provides training for the employees to understand, and acquire knowledge and skills vital for the safe performance and execution of duties within the confined space.

It also requires training to be provided to the employee before being assigned duties, when duties are changed, when permit space operations are changed that are hazardous for which the employee has not been trained on, and if the employee feels that the permit space entry procedures have been deviated from or the employee has little knowledge of the procedures. The training is designed to establish employee proficiency in execution of the duties and new or revised procedures. After all the training has been done, certification should be made available with the name of the employee, trainers signature and the respective training dates.

Formosa Plastics Corporation also neglected the Rescue and Emergency services regulations for confined space. The rescue and emergency operations require that the employer provides and trains