Don’t ever let fear be your greatest enemy when it comes to sharing your expertise. #safety #share #lead… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
Let your actions and integrity speak for you. It speaks much louder than your mouth ever could and goes before you whether you like it or not. #safety #lead #grow… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
Don’t let people rain on your passion. Keep it protected, add some wood, and stoke the fire of your desires. Chase those goals with intent! #safety #dream #fantheflame… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
At 2:30 p.m. on September 13, 2010, Employee #1, Employee #2, and Employee #3 were tasked with the dismantling of a scaffold level within a phosgene containment dome. During their dismantling work, at approximately 80 feet above the ground, alarms specific to phosgene gas were triggered. The process within this Dome was the manufacturing and…...
Under the final RMP Reconsideration rule, members of the public can continue to obtain access to RMPs through three different means: Read-only access to the full version of facility RMPs at reading rooms by appearing in person at a Federal reading room; Read-only RMP access directly from the local emergency planning committee in the location…...
On November 20, 2019, EPA finalized changes to the Risk Management Program (RMP) Reconsideration final rule to better address potential security risks, regulatory consistency and reasonable consideration of costs. The changes are intended to promote better emergency planning and public information about accidents and maintain the trend of fewer significant accidents involving chemicals regulated under…...
This one occurred in South America but due to the sheer power of this event, I am sharing with the SAFTENG membership. The worker was thrown over 650 feet and of course, perished in the accident. Its the same old story… tanker starts to leak – they take to a repair shop for repair –…...
We have had another catastrophic failure of a pressure vessel used in an ammonia refrigeration process and this time we caught it on camera. The event occurred last week and unfortunately, I have not heard of any causes or if anything special was happening within the process when this failure occurred. This picture shows us…...
For those of you who are SAFTENG members and manage a Respiratory Protection program, this is NOT news to you, as we have discussed this many times before, and if you have been to my 1.5 Day Respiratory Protection Administrator course, you got this beat into your head! But for those less fortunate, here is…...
We are all accustomed to labeling our process vessels/tanks with the contents; many of us that operate batch processes even use some specialized labeling and cross-referencing hazard data based on the batch being run. But one item too many of us fail to identify within a vessel is the use of an inert purging/blanketing gas…...
The call came in as a “vehicle fire”… Listen and Learn…… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
At all relevant times, Respondent owned and operated a refrigerated food distribution warehouse with an ammonia refrigerant system which contains approximately 9,617 pounds of ammonia. EPA inspected the facility on August 9, 2018. Prior to the August 9, 2018, inspection, Respondent had not performed a hazard analysis nor developed standard operating procedures for the ammonia…...
