Learn What Local Companies Are Doing To Prevent Accidents

The California Accidental Release Prevention (CalARP) Program requires companies with regulated chemicals to submit a Risk Management Plan (RMP). The City of Richmond's Industrial Safety Ordinance (RISO) requires regulated facilities to submit a Safety Plan (SP). Risk Management Plans and Safety Plans include:

• A description of the hazardous materials present,
• The accident prevention programs in place,
• The facility's emergency response program, and
• The management systems in place to implement the overall program.

Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS) has begun to review RMP's recently received for the following company in Contra Costa County (the plan is available for review at CCHS' office):

Brentwood WTP
3706 Neroly Rd, Oakley, CA

The CalARP Program requires Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS) to perform document reviews and audits to ensure companies are in compliance with the CalARP/RISO Program regulations, and are following their RMP/SP. Facility RMPs, Safety Plans, and Preliminary Audit Findings may be reviewed at the Contra Costa Health Services Hazardous Materials Programs Office located at 4333 Pacheco Blvd. in Martinez. Call 925-646-2286 to schedule an appointment. A forty-five day public comment period for the RMPs, Safety Plans, and Preliminary Audit Findings listed below begins April 22, 2009 and will end on June 6, 2009. These documents may also be reviewed at the libraries listed below.

Under the City of Richmond Industrial Safety Ordinance, CCHS is required to conduct a public meeting on the Safety Audit for the Chevron Richmond Refinery:

• CCHS will make a presentation to the Richmond Neighborhood Community Council and the public on the Safety Audit for Chevron's Richmond Refinery in Conference Room 1, 330 25th Street in Richmond, at 7 p.m. on Monday May 11, 2009.
• CCHS will be at the Recycle More Earth Day Event in Richmond at 101 Pittsburg Avenue Richmond, CA on Saturday April 25 th from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., for the public to review the Chevron Richmond Refinery's Safety Audit results and to answer any questions about our Programs.

Your written comments, postmarked no later than June 6, 2009, should be sent via email to ARPTeam@hsd.cccounty.us or to the following address:

Contra Costa Health Services
Hazardous Materials Programs
c/o Randy Sawyer
4333 Pacheco Blvd.
Martinez, CA 94553

Contra Costa Health Services will respond to all written comments. Contra Costa Health Services will hold public meetings to discuss RMPs or Preliminary Audit Findings if there is sufficient public interest. Contra Costa Health Services will incorporate all written comments into the RMP reviews or Final Audit Findings as appropriate.

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