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29 CFR 1910.119(g)(1)(i):Each employee presently involved in operating a process, and each employee before being involved in operating a newly assigned process, shall be trained in an overview of the process and in the operating procedures as specified in paragraph (f) of this section. The training shall include emphasis on the specific safety and health hazards, emergency operations including shutdown, and safe work practices applicable to the employee's job tasks. a. On or about and prior to April 8, 2021, the employer failed to train employees on specific operating procedures, the consequences of deviations, and the associated safety and health impacts. Such as, but not limited to: -procedures for loss of agitation and emergency operations such as loss of containment; -deviations from normal process conditions such as water returning into kettle reactor vessels; -abnormal process conditions such as frothing or foaming, solvent and/or vapor flow disruption, and rapid temperature or pressure increases; and -safety systems and their functions. Lack of training for employees on operating procedures prevents employees from responding appropriately to process upsets exposing employees to fire and explosion hazards. As evidenced when the kettle 3 reactor vessel manway failed and released vapor into the kettle 3/kettle 4 room, which resulted in an explosion that resulted in a fatality and multiple disabling injuries.