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Posted By garyh
Is there a standard of any sort for how far a safety shower should be from a (chemical) hazard.
Please don't put "assess the risk" in your response. Incredibly, I have thought of that!
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Posted By Jim Walker
As close as possible, I would have thought.
Speaking from a very recent and unpleasant experience, make sure access is easy.
I know this sounds common sense but when you have a face full of corrosive
substance, making your way to a shower is more difficult than you would ever
imagine.
Once the shower is installed make sure it remains assessible.
Whilst on the subject, can I sugggest all of you out there review your eye
wash provision.
Believe me 2 X 1 litre of eye wash is no where near enough when the time comes.
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Posted By garyh
For info - I am responding to my own post! I have been advised by shower manufacturer JD Hughes that there is no UK standard as such, however they did advise me that
"according to the American National Standard (ANSI Z358.1-1998):Emergency Safety Showers and Eyebath/Facewash units should be installed within 10 seconds reach if an accident occurs, 15 metres (50 ft) away maximum; for strong acids and caustics they must be immediately adjacent to the hazard. Ideally they should be centrally located in a prominent position and not obstructed by heavytraffic or clutter. Panic-stricken persons easily remember such spots. Eye/Facewashunits should be on the same level as the hazard. All units should be clearly labelled with pictogram signs to EC Standard 92/58/E"
Contrast this excellent guidance with the HSE "assess the risk" approach.
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Posted By Andy
Gary,
one issue that I'm sure you have covered with safety showers specifically is to place it away (practically speaking) from the potential exposure area.
last year I audited a site where the shower was placed within an ammonia based and quite confined refigeration plantroom.
You can imagine the scenario.........exposed...........decontaminated ................
.. re-contaminated, we had to ask where the thinking behind this was!
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