When working with the ASME B31 series for piping installation, many of the requirements are based on the “Category” of the fluid which will be traveling within the pipe. Of course, the higher the hazard, the higher the safety is necessary for your piping circuits. This is NOT my creation, and to be perfectly honest,…...
Those who live in the world of Process Safety know all about “Line Break/Process Opening” and the lack of OSHA guidance or a standard to control this highly hazardous task. So I try to educate all that will listen by sharing “lessons learned” from previous incidents. This post is an attempt to show that although…...
Safety Order 01 Item 001 Type of Violation: Serious; $4,000 IC 22-8-1.1 Section 2: The employer did not establish and maintain conditions of work which were reasonably safe and healthful for employees, and free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were…...
Respondent submitted and EPA has approved a single RMPlan that includes an accidental release prevention program for its stationary source. EPA alleges for the purpose of this Agreement: At the time of the EPA inspection, the Respondent had an RMProgram level 2 covered process that stores or otherwise uses peracetic acid, which is a regulated…...
SPECIAL NOTE: I normally do not post small cases like this; however, this case involves a facility not counting railcars that have been disconnected from their motive power in the Maximum Intended Inventory for the Process Quantaties. On September 1, 2015 an authorized representative of the EPA conducted a compliance inspection of the Respondent’s facility to…...
The SAFTENG team has come across this rare situation twice in 2016 and it seems to be a matter that is open to much interpretation so I am hoping we can have a rationale discussion. The situation arises when we come across a facility using a brand/model of respirator that no longer has a NIOSH approval…...
On Dec. 2, 2016, OSHA issued citations to a poultry processing facility for five serious safety violations, including one issued as a violation of the OSH Act’s general duty clause. Two hazard alert letters were issued on Dec. 2, 2016. OSHA’s inspection began on June 3, 2016, after the employer reported that a worker suffered…...
Following an inspection conducted at a facility from 06/03/2016 to 12/02/2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued citations for ergonomic hazards. During the inspection OSHA’s Office of Occupational Medicine and Nursing identified characteristics of the facility’s medical management program that pose several problems that contribute to injured workers receiving treatments that do not…...
Recently OSHA completed an inspection at a workplace where they identified a hazard that was not a violation of a specific OSHA standard, nor was it considered appropriate at the time to invoke Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (e.g. General Duty Clause). In these cases, OSHA may send the employer a…...
Industrial LOADING DOCK FATALITY Worker killed in accident at FedEx hub in Willington (worker, 30, was killed during an industrial accident around 8:15 p.m. – he was pinned between two trailers – other workers were able to get him out from between the trailers and started CPR – emergency responders took him to a Hospital…...
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