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In a message dated 12/7/2004 2:10:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Based on all the information in the previous email traffic, it seems you may
need a health and safety plan prepared by a safety planner. It could include
requirements for shoring (generally needed at depths greater then 1.5 meters),
safety equipment, on-site safety monitoring, requirements for safety training
(40-hour HAZWOPR) and a baseline medical examination.
To develop the safety plan, background testing may be required. The plan may
specify the level of personal safety suit needed (A-D). A Level A suit, as
seems to be what Ron is recommending, is extremely cumbersome, heavy, hot and
difficult to work in. You look like the Pillsbury Doughboy on steroids. If it
is required, you need to have your body temperature monitored by an on-site
safety monitor, because you are in a completely enclosed environment and the air
pumped in does not function as a coolant. A Level B suit which also has self
contained air supply would be better but only marginally.
All of this would be a worst case scenario to protect you and the university
from legal ramifications of an excavator getting sick and claiming it was due
to working in the well. Without a good plan and baselining, they are very
hard to defend against. Definitely consult your health and safety officer, they
may tell you that only shoring and HEPA filter masks are required and that a
detailed safety plan is unnecessary.
Stan Berryman
In light of all this perhaps filling it with concrete and painting the top
blue to look like water is your best bet!!!!
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