1、Contractor and Owner Safety Program ImplementationAPI RECOMMENDED PRACTICE 2221THIRD EDITION,OCTOBER 2011Contractor and Owner Safety Program ImplementationDownstream SegmentAPI RECOMMENDED PRACTICE 2221THIRD EDITION,OCTOBER 2011Special NotesAPI is not undertaking to meet the duties of employers,manu
2、facturers or suppliers to warn and properly train andequip their employees,and others exposed,concerning health and safety risks and precautions,nor undertaking theirobligations under local,state or federal laws.Information concerning safety and health risks and proper precautions with respect to pa
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10、ctice should not rely exclusively on the information contained in this document.Soundbusiness,scientific,engineering,and safety judgment should be used in employing the information contained herein.API is not undertaking to meet the duties of employers,manufacturers,or suppliers to warn and properly
11、 train andequip their employees,and others exposed,concerning health and safety risks and precautions,nor undertaking theirobligations to comply with authorities having jurisdiction.Information concerning safety and health risks and proper precautions with respect to particular materials and condi-t
12、ions should be obtained from the employer,the manufacturer or supplier of that material,or the material safety datasheet.All rights reserved.No part of this work may be reproduced,translated,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or othe
13、rwise,without prior written permission from the publisher.Contact the Publisher,API Publishing Services,1220 L Street,NW,Washington,DC 20005.Copyright 2011 American Petroleum InstituteForewordThis guide is intended to assist refining and petrochemical industry facility owners and contractors to impl
14、ement orimprove an effective contractor safety and health program.This guide supplements the American PetroleumInstitutes(API)Standard 2220 Improving Owner and Contractor Safety Performance.These two documents identifyelements of contractor safety and health programs,and provide guidance and example
15、s to refinery andpetrochemical plant owners for designing and implementing effective programs.Contractors can also benefit fromunderstanding the owners program and by establishing a complementary program of their own.A number of annexes are included in this document as samples of approaches used at
16、some facilities or assupplemental information.Except where indicated in the text,these annexes are informative;implementation ofinformative annexes is not required for a program to be in conformance with these guidelines.This information is provided to help owners of(and contractors working at)refinery and petrochemical facilities tounderstand the process of managing contractor safety and health programs.Neither API nor this document canreplace the necessary professional judgment needed to recom
