The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) (EPA/OSHA) issued this Chemical Safety Alert as part of an ongoing federal effort to improve chemical risk management, advance safety and protect human health and the environment.1 Recent catastrophic chemical facility incidents in the United States prompted the President to issue Executive […]
I came across this SAFETY ALERT from WY-OSHA. I never knew they would cite exposed valve stems and there example is for stems extending into egress paths. Most surprisingly is that this OSHA Alert actually “endorses” a private product, which I thought OSHA refused to do. Of course this is a “State Plan” and NOT
I am not sure what transpired with this inspection, but the power plant was also cited for these same violations, but all their citations were DELETED and the penalty reduced to $0.00. The citations below were to the contractor who was actually doing the work inside the space. I am not sure, but I would
This is my 3rd attempt to post this video, so this time I am using CNN’s story about the actual video in the hopes that Youtube does NOT delete CNN’s account.
DOT has issued a “special permit” for some nurse tanks. The tanks were NOT built to ASME Section VIII, Division 1 and are to be removed from service August 17, 2017. CLICK HERE for the notice.
To: Metal and Nonmetal Mining Alliance Partners and Stakeholders From: Neal H. Merrifield, Administrator for Metal and Nonmetal Mine Safety and Health Mine Safety and Health Administration Re: Confined Space Entry Alert Unsafe work in confined spaces has led to miner deaths and injuries in the metal and nonmetal mining industry. Recent tragic incidents include:
The Respondent owns and operates a chemical manufacturing facility. On or about April 8 – 12, 2013, an EPA instructor conducted an inspection of the Respondent’s facility after several incidents with on-site and off-site impacts.
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This is an IMPROPERLY wired disconnect switch. Suspicions are that it was done on purpose so that management could not recognize the machine was still powered on while maintenance/servicing was taking place. But if ALL workers did not know about this and just turned the switch off and did NOT verify zero energy this could
This is from a surveillance camera at a gas station during business hours, this captures a fuel truck delivery driver and a fire that results from flammable gasoline vapors escaping from the underground tank as the delivery is made. As a car approaches the station heat from the brakes and or engine ignite the gasoline
With OSHA’s recent revision of their definition of “retail”, there are literally thousands of ammonia facilities that have entered into the world of PSM and have gone from RMP 2 to RMP 3. So this posting is just to offer some insight and/or an alternative to API 510 inspection practices and to help those facilities
