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WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONDOCUMENT: 3200-PRO-002LAKE CHARLESSAFETY & HEALTHDOCUMENT NAME: Contractor Safety ManualSECTION CCONTRACTOR SAFETY MANUALLAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANAREVISION DATE: 3/16/2020PAGE:1 of 77
WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONDOCUMENT: 3200-PRO-002LAKE CHARLESSAFETY & HEALTHREVISION DATE: 3/16/2020DOCUMENT NAME: Contractor Safety ManualPAGE:2 of 77Contractors Safety ManualWestlake Corporation, Lake Charles, LAWelcome to Westlake Corporation, Lake Charles, Louisiana. We are pleased to have you as partof our workforce and hope that your time spent here will be safe, productive and rewarding.This manual is intended to be a guide to the safe work practices that comply with both state andfederal guidelines to promote a safe working environment for all employees at our facility.Our goal at Westlake is always "Zero Accident Performance". We are firmly committed to theidea that all accidents are preventable. Be continually aware of the hazards around you and yourjobsite; watch out for yourself and for others; report any unsafe condition to your supervisorimmediately!Westlake strongly encourages all of its contractors and their subcontractors to participate in theA Westlake Contractor Safety Forum. The Forum is a partnership between Westlake and itscontractors to promote a safety culture that provides for an accident-free and environmentallysafe workplace for those working at the Westlake facility.Please read and examine this manual thoroughly to ensure you are fully aware of its contents.Accidents can be avoided by familiarizing yourself with proper safety procedures and adheringto specific safety guidelines. Do not take shortcuts with safety.The following is a link to the most current Westlake Safety sIf a question arises between requirements in this manual and the current Westlake SafetyProcedure, the current Westlake Safety Procedure will be followed.Unsafe actions devalue your life and the lives of those around you. Remember - at Westlake, wecare about YOU!
WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONDOCUMENT: 3200-PRO-002LAKE CHARLESSAFETY & HEALTHDOCUMENT NAME: Contractor Safety ManualREVISION DATE: 3/16/2020PAGE:3 of 77Table of ContentsI.Introduction. 10A.General Safety Policy . 21B.Indoctrination . 21C.First Aid . 22D.Safety, Inspection and Observations . 22E.Reports of Accidents and Investigations . 22F.OSHA Inspections . 22G.Construction Safety Regulations . 23 Verify that any employee operating machinery has been properly qualified and a record oftheir training on their person. (card) . 32A.Westlake Reportable Incidents . 34B.Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Cell Phones . 35C.Employee's Break Areas . 36D.Safety Meetings . 36E.Security . 36F.Temporary Construction Trailers . 37G.Vehicle and Traffic Regulations . 37 All contractor vehicles must have some type of identification (painted sign, logo, magneticsign) attached to both sides of the vehicle before entering the owners plant. Signage must belegible from a minimum 40 feet away. 37 No employee shall ride on the sides, running board or tailgate of transport vehicle. See TrafficGuideline Procedure. 38H.Working in an Operating Unit . 39Safety Data Sheet (SDS) . 39I. Personnel Accountability During Emergencies . 39 Operation of any of the evacuations is a signal for all non-critical personnel to leave the unit orplant in an orderly and controlled manner. 39 Evacuation is to be opposite or at right angles to the prevailing wind direction (as determinedby observing windsocks or water vapor). . 39 Evacuate using “No Hardhat Required” route approved for entry/exit where possible. . 39
WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONDOCUMENT: 3200-PRO-002LAKE CHARLESSAFETY & HEALTHDOCUMENT NAME: Contractor Safety ManualREVISION DATE: 3/16/2020PAGE:4 of 77 Shut off compressors, welding machines, and all other ignition sources. 39 No smoking during an evacuation. No running, evacuate in an orderly manner. . 40 Evacuation by vehicle is not permitted. All vehicles are to be pulled off the road, shutdown andabandoned. The operator should then evacuate on foot. Leave the keys in the ignition.Respirators are to be at hand and prepared for use; i.e., mouthpiece cover remove nose clipavailable. . 40NOTE* All personnel are to proceed to the nearest assembly point (Use map4301-03) and must immediately badge in at the accountability reader. . 40SAFETY REQUIREMENTS . 40J.Housekeeping . 40K.Personal Protective Equipment . 40Head, Eyes, and Face . 40Ears. 41Respiratory . 41Hands . 41Body . 42Feet . 42Safety Belt and Lanyards . 42Safety Nets. 43Working On or Near Water . 43Tools. 43Hand Tools . 43Power-Operated Hand Tools . 44L.Equipment . 45Portable fuel tanks and oil filled equipment . 45Air Compressors . 47Concrete and Concrete Forms. 47Earth Moving . 48Gas Cylinders . 49Hoisting Equipment . 50Hoses. 51
WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONDOCUMENT: 3200-PRO-002LAKE CHARLESSAFETY & HEALTHDOCUMENT NAME: Contractor Safety ManualREVISION DATE: 3/16/2020PAGE:5 of 77Ladders. 52Aerial Lifts (Manlifts) . 54oPainting and Blasting. 54Note: All employees should inspect scaffolds prior to using them for obvious defects and a validpermit. 55All scaffolds shall be inspected per shift by a qualified competent person and the Westlake scaffoldtag updated. . 55Welding and Cutting. 56M.Signs and Barricades. 58N.Walking, Working Surfaces and Grating Removal . 59Floors . 59Open-sided Floor, Platforms, and Runways . 59Walls . 60Roofs . 60Grating removal. 60O.Excavation, Trenching, and Shoring . 61i.Contractors are required to provide a trained Competent Person for excavations. If multiplecompanies are required to enter the excavation, each company will furnish a Competent Person tomonitor their respective personnel. . 61ii. For excavations outside the plant perimeter, or inside the plant perimeter where anothercompany’s pipeline crosses near the area, a notification to LA One Call, formerly known as DOTTIE(811 or 1-800-272-3020) must be made 48 hours prior to digging. Emergency situations do notrequire the 48-hour wait but LA One Call must be notified. Note: “Near” is defined by Westlake tobe within 100 feet.-.- (LA One Call Map – Non-Westlake Pipelines Within Plant - WESTLAKE Drawing# 32A-20181.1). 61iii. Determine if the area to be excavated is in one of the following area: South Terminal,Derivatives, North Dock area, Membrane, Sabine River Water Pond, Barge Slip, Coon Island Loop,Bayou Verdine, Plant A transformer areas, Isolated Canal, or WESTLAKE Canal. If so, contact theenvironmental department prior to excavating for special instructions. 62iv. Determine if the excavation is a Confined Space. If so, assure that all requirements are met inaccordance with the Safety Procedure #8, Confined Space Entry. 62v. All excavations will have barricades, guard rails, hand rails, warning lights, etc, as needed forprotection of personnel, vehicles or equipment working or passing adjacent to the excavation site.62
WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONDOCUMENT: 3200-PRO-002LAKE CHARLESSAFETY & HEALTHDOCUMENT NAME: Contractor Safety ManualP.REVISION DATE: 3/16/2020PAGE:6 of 77Electrical . 62Compliance . 62Ground-Fault Protection . 64Eight-pack Grounding . 64Temporary Wiring . 65Q.Fire Prevention and Protection . 65Temporary Fuel Storage Tanks . 65Storage and Use of Flammable and Combustible Liquids. 66Temporary Heating Devices . 67Pre-Demo . 68 Piping shall be marked with orange paint the entire length of the equipment. Cutonly after the owning department has verified it is the correct piece of equipment.69 Vessels and towers shall have the word “demo” painted in bright orange letters nosmaller than 6 inches in height where it can be seen from any vantage point. . 69 All nuclear sources shall be removed from the attached equipment by a licensedprofessional prior to demoing that particular piece of equipment. . 69Note: if this can not be accomplished, the Westlake Chemical safety departmentmust then be contacted and a field review must be completed. . 69Area Protection . 69Material Removal . 70R.Hazardous Materials . 70General Information. 70Safety Showers and Body Wash . 71Removal . 71JOB REQUIREMENTS . 71S.Permits . 71 No work is to be performed without a properly filled out General Work Permit andauthorization from operations accompanied with a JSA. . 71 Should area, unit, or plant alarm(s) sound, permits are canceled and must be re-issued whenthe emergency is terminated. . 71Ignition Source. 71
WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONDOCUMENT: 3200-PRO-002LAKE CHARLESSAFETY & HEALTHDOCUMENT NAME: Contractor Safety ManualREVISION DATE: 3/16/2020PAGE:7 of 77Vehicle Entry. 73T.Lockout Procedure . 74 Non-Westlake personnel will provide their own locks for this procedure. . 74 Personal locks with ID tags shall be placed and removed by authorized employee protected bythe lock. 74 Personal locks with personal identification tags shall be removed when the authorizedemployee completes the job, changes jobs or leaves at the end of the day. When the job is notcomplete, the person(s) working on the equipment will inform their supervisor and the job mustnot be signed as completed until the problem has been corrected. 74 Nesting is prohibited. . 74 When the authorized employee who applied the locks is not available to remove it, the lockmay be removed under the direction of the supervisor in charge of the job (job foreman, shiftsupervisor, field engineer). In doing so, the supervisor will: . 74a. Verify that the authorized employee who applied the lock is not in the plant. . 74b. Make a reasonable effort to contact and inform the authorized employee that the lock has beenremoved. . 74c. Ensure that supervision informs the employee of the removal before they return to the same job. 74d. Document in narrative form the steps taken and copy the “owner” area supervisor/team leader,department superintendent, and manager of safety and health. . 74U.Task Specific PPE . 74Work on or adjacent to systems with exposure to acid or caustic requires: . 75Work on or adjacent to systems with exposure to chlorine or other chemicals requires: . 75V.Asbestos. 75 Minimum required training . 75All employees that are exposed or potentially exposed to asbestos will receive annual training on: . 75a.)Lake Charles Asbestos program . 75b.)Health hazards of asbestos . 75c.)Restricted areas and jobsites . 75d.)Work practices for ACM . 75e.)Recognition of ACM or PACM . 76f.)OSHA regulations . 76
WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONDOCUMENT: 3200-PRO-002LAKE CHARLESSAFETY & HEALTHDOCUMENT NAME: Contractor Safety Manualg.) a.)REVISION DATE: 3/16/2020PAGE:8 of 77Smoking Cessation program availability. . 76Custodial workers . 76All custodial workers will be given 2 hour awareness level training that will consist of: . 76 All minimum required training listed above . 76 Required personal protective equipment. 76 Description of medical Surveillance Program . 76 Required work practices. . 76W.Line Breaking . 76 Each individual opening location shall be identified during the process opening filed reviewand either marked with green line break tape, or the supervisor must be present during the processopening. . 76 Emergency safety shower and eyewash locations must be identified and operability verified. Ifa fixed emergency safety shower or eyewash is not located near the operating area, a portableANSI approved safety shower/eye wash station must be set up near the line opening area butoutside of the barricade. 76 The process opening affected area shall be barricaded with red barricade tape and tags per4301-06-343 Plant Barricades, at a minimum of 10’ horizontal radius from the point of the openingfor process openings at grade. 77 For elevated process openings, the process opening affected area shall be barricaded with redbarricade tape at each level to include the grade level, which should be at a minimum of 15’horizontal radius. . 77 Shielding may be used when the use of barricade tape is impractical to protect nearbypersonnel, piping and equipment. . 77 Clearance verification shall be conducted by the equipment Owner/Operator and theMaintenance /Construction supervisor or General foreman to review the method and results of theclearing process. A determination will be made based on a visual or quantitative results whether ornot the process is “verified” clear or “unverified”. 77 Clearance verification will be agreed upon by the Equipment Owner/Operator andMaintenance/Construction Supervisor or General Foreman and a plan to safely complete the taskwill be formulated and documented on the General Work permit. 77NOTE* Minimum PPE for “Verified Clear” openings is normal PPE plus goggles and a face shield andthe appropriate gloves. When vapors may be present, respiratory protection shall be addressedbased on quantitative verification. Otherwise,a full face respirator with
WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONDOCUMENT: 3200-PRO-002LAKE CHARLESSAFETY & HEALTHDOCUMENT NAME: Contractor Safety ManualREVISION DATE: 3/16/2020PAGE:9 of 77appropriate cartridges shall be worn. Minimum PPE for “unverified” openings is listed in Appendix2 of the Safe Process Piping, Equipment& Vessel Opening Procedure. . 77
WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONDOCUMENT: 3200-PRO-002LAKE CHARLESSAFETY & HEALTHDOCUMENT NAME: Contractor Safety ManualI.REVISION DATE: 3/16/2020PAGE:10 of 77IntroductionThis safety manual contains the minimum safety rules and procedures for theperformance of work by Contractors and their subcontractors as required byWestlake Corporation. Contractors assume the full responsibility and liability forthe safety of their agents, and employees and for the compliances of itssubcontractors. Any exception to the rules set forth herein must have priorwritten authorization from the Owner. The Owner is established as WestlakeCorporation.In addition to the rules set forth herein, Contractors working in or near an existingoperating facility must be knowledgeable of and must comply to the Owner'ssafety rules for the area and any federal state, or local laws governing.Should any procedure set forth herein conflict with applicable federal, state, orlocal laws, the latter will apply.Contractors unable or unwilling to secure personnel whose performance is inkeeping with these rules will not be acceptable. Contractor's supervisors andemployees who do not exhibit support in word and action for performing worksafely and complying with established safety procedures will be unacceptable.EMPLOYEES WHO LEAVE A JOB DUE TO SAFETY VIOLATIONS WILL NOTBE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO OWNER'S WORK SITE WITHOUT PRIORAUTHORIZATION FROM THE OWNER.Contractors and their employees are required as of February 15, 1993, to havesuccessfully completed an eight hour safety awareness and training program oran approved reciprocal program. This program is administered by the SafetyCouncil of Southwest Louisiana for this area.On the Westlake Chemical South LC Intranet webpage there is a complete list ofWestlake Chemical South Safety Procedures. If you do not gain access to the LCIntranet system, get with your Westlake representative to produce theseprocedures for you.II.Definitions"Owner", "Owner's Representative". "Contractor", "Contractor'sRepresentative", "Subcontractor", and "Work" shall be as defined in theGeneral Terms and Conditions and the Agreement."Construction Management Contractor" shall mean the contractor who hasbeen duly authorized to act as “Owner's Representative" in thoseresponsibilities so delegated by the Owner.
WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATIONDOCUMENT: 3200-PRO-002LAKE CHARLESSAFETY & HEALTHDOCUMENT NAME: Contractor Safety ManualREVISION DATE: 3/16/2020PAGE:11 of 77The relationship between the "Construction Management Contractor" and the"Contractor" shall be the same as between the "Owner's Representative" andthe "Contractor" on responsibilities so delegated by the "Owner".III.Construction SiteThe job site location for this construction project is within the confines ofthe operating plant and all security and safety procedures relative to thatcondition will be in effect.IVConstruction HoursA.Working HoursUnless the Owner otherwise notifies the Contractor, normal workinghours will be based on a 40-hour work week from 7:00 a.m. to 5:30p.m., exclusive of a 30-minute lunch period, on Monday throughThursday.Make-up days for time lost due to wea
SAFETY & HEALTH WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATION LAKE CHARLES DOCUMENT: 3200-PRO-002 . jobsite; watch out for yourself and for others; report any unsafe condition to your supervisor immediately! . Contractors are required to provide a trained Competent Person for excavations. If multiple
