Since EPA published their final amendments last month, some in the process safety profession have been in a tizzy over the 3rd Party Audit Requirements. This little revision is going over about as well as OSHA’s revised Hazard Categories. This week I have fielded many calls, emails, and texts from people panicking over this new 3rd…...
OSHA issued the nine citations and fined a refinery $164,775 for process safety lapses resulting in a Nov. 22 fire that injured six workers. 8 of the 9 citations were “serious” and each carried a fine of $12,675. The ninth, listed as a “repeat,” was $63,373. The refinery is contesting the citations and associated penalties. The…...
This was the shoe of a stand up forklift driver who got his foot too far of the edge of the lift. He was uninjured. The cost of the injury without that shoe would have paid for every employee’s safety shoes in our company for two years…. Membership Required You must be a member to access...
Respondent operates a natural gas processing plant where raw natural gas is received via pipeline and processed to remove heavy natural gas liquids (NGLs) (i.e., butane, ethane, methane, pentane, propane, isobutane and isopentane ). After being processed and purified into a finished by-product, the NGL mixture is stored in pressurized tanks and transferred into tanker…...
Respondent is a municipality doing business in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. On November 13, 2014, the EPA issued to Respondent a notice of potential violation (“NOPV”), providing notice that the EPA found that Respondent had potentially committed the alleged violations described in Section E of this Agreement and providing Respondent an opportunity to confer with…...
Respondent is a municipality doing business in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. On October 27, 2015, the EPA issued to Respondent a notice of potential violation (“NOPV”), providing notice that the EPA found that Respondent had potentially committed alleged violations and providing Respondent an opportunity to confer with the EPA. On April 5, 2016, and May…...
It won’t. Both the OSHA PSM standard and the EPA RMP rule aim to prevent or minimize the consequences of accidental chemical releases through implementation of management program elements that integrate technologies, procedures, and management practices. In addition to requiring implementation of management program elements, the RMP rule requires covered sources to submit (to EPA)…...
Industrial RAIL YARD FATALITY Worker Dies in Blytheville Steel Mill Accident (worker was killed while working in the rail yard – he was a locomotive operator with 27 years of experience – no details on what happened) LINEMAN ELECTROCUTION Utility worker killed in Sullivan County identified (worker, 46, died repairing a downed wire – customers…...
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has released the panel investigation report into the November 20, 2014, explosion and fatality on a platform. The explosion occurred on West Delta Block 105 Platform E, resulting in the tragic death of Jerrel Hancock. Mr. Hancock, a Turnkey Cleaning Services supervisor, died after an explosion inside…...
PHMSA 36-16 Thursday, December 15, 2016 PHMSA Issues Safety Advisory on Use of DOT-39 Cylinders for Liquefied Flammable Compressed Gas. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (U.S. DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a safety advisory informing offerors or anyone using a DOT Specification 39 (DOT-39) cylinder that cylinders with an internal volume…...
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Since the 1980s, Active and Latent failures have been a major part of Human Factors Engineering, we have all done it at some point in our careers… an accident happens, and we go straight to the obvious ACTIVE FAILURES and point to those as the sole cause of the incident; until one day a more…...
