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29 CFR 1910.119(f)(1)(i)(D): The employer shall develop and implement written operating procedures that provide clear instructions for safely conducting activities involved in each covered process consistent with the process safety information and shall address at least the following elements: Emergency shutdown including the conditions under which emergency shutdown is required, and the assignment of shutdown responsibility to qualified operators to ensure that emergency shutdown is executed in a safe and timely manner: a. In the chlorination department 1C building #17, the employer failed to develop and implement written emergency shutdown procedures, that included shutdown conditions and assignments of responsibility. b. In the phosphites plant building #27, the employer failed to develop and implement written emergency shutdown procedures for conditions other than power failure and PHOS SOPM 152, Power Failure Emergency Shutdown, emergency shutdown procedures failed to include emergency shutdown conditions and assignments of responsibility. c. In the chlorination department 1P building #6, the employer failed to develop and implement written emergency shutdown procedures that included shutdown conditions and assignments of responsibility. d. In chlorination department 1C, there were two emergency shutdown for power failure procedures for 20R reactor with conflicting instructions.