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COMDTINST 6260.31A
10 Jul 2002
COMMANDANT INSTRUCTION 6260.31A
Subj:
SAFETY & HEALTH TRAINING FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE OPERATIONS
Ref:
(a)
Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response, 29 CFR 1910.120
(b)
Occupational Safety and Health Programs for Federal Employees, E.O. 12196
(c)
Occupational Safety and Health Programs for Federal Employees, 29 CFR 1960
(d)
Safety and Environmental Health Manual, COMDTINST M5100.47 (series)
(e)
Training Marine Oil Spill Response Workers Under OSHA's Hazardous Waste
Operations and Emergency Response Standard, OSHA Booklet 3172
1. PURPOSE. This Instruction establishes occupational safety and health training requirements
for emergency response operations involving or potentially involving releases of hazardous
materials. It also outlines service-wide management of training to meet these requirements.
2. ACTION. Area and district commanders, commanders of maintenance and logistic
commands, and commanding officers of headquarters units shall ensure that the provisions of
this Instruction are followed. Internet release authorized.
3. DIRECTIVES AFFECTED. Safety and Occupational Health Training Requirements for Oil
Spill Response Activities, COMDTINST 6260.31, is cancelled.
4. DISCUSSION.
a. Emergency Response Involving Hazardous Materials. For Coast Guard personnel,
training for emergency response operations involving actual or potential hazardous
materials releases has normally been associated with the "traditional" marine safety
activity of oil spill response. However, other emergency response missions such as
search and rescue, law enforcement, and port security, as well as chemical spill response,
could involve hazardous materials. The change in the title of this instruction reflects this
conceptual expansion. Intuitively, it is easy to recognize that hazardous materials are or
may be present in spills of oil or chemical products, but they may also be found in the
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