Applicability

This Safety Guideline applies to work areas shared by personnel of different companies, such as equipment suppliers, facility suppliers, user's contractors and users.

This Safety Guideline applies where work by employees of one company in one work area comprises a hazard to employees of another company in an adjacent work area.

The work activities to which this safety guideline applies include installation, start-up, de-installation, wafer size conversion, and overhaul.

Criteria Established

This guideline establishes criteria for the user's, supplier's and contractor's responsibility for a safe working environment.

This guideline establishes criteria for the responsibilities of each supplier's and contractor's work supervisors.

This guideline establishes criteria for a Safety Supervisors' Communication Council (SSCC) as the organization to ensure human safety in multi-employer work areas and where work by employees of one company in one work area comprises a hazard to employee of another company in an adjacent work area.

This guideline establishes criteria for methods of safety patrol with the user's support in multi-employer work areas and where work by employees of one company in one work area comprises a hazard to employees of another company in an adjacent work area.

NOTICE: This safety guideline does not purport to address all of the safety issues associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the users of this safety guideline to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory or other limitations prior to use.

Purpose

This safety guideline provides methods to establish safe working environment where personnel of different companies (entities) share a work area in a fab or where work by employees of one company in one area may comprise a hazard to employees of another company in an adjacent area.