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The following criteria determine if an emergency response is necessary:
- If there is no potential safety or health hazard, there is no emergency. This applies
whether the release is cleaned up by personnel within the immediate work area or outside
the work area. Generally, employees will be trained under the hazard communication
standard to deal with such incidental releases
- If there is a potential safety or health hazard, there may be an emergency; and
therefore, an emergency response. This applies whether the release is responded to by
employees from outside the work area, by outside groups such as the fire department, or by
employees from the immediate work area who have been designated by the employer to respond
to emergencies.
Click the term below for additional considerations that
classify a situation as an emergency response.
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