At 7:17 a.m., on August 22, 2003, a cargo tank semitrailer arrived at a facility. The driver pulled the vehicle up to the fill location and helped an employee hook up to the fittings for a plant storage tank. According to the driver, about 7:40 a.m., the employee began transferring anhydrous ammonia, a poisonous and…...
Anhydrous Ammonia Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) Incident sends 5 to hospital Read More »
Learnings from this incident can be applied to any toxic/posiounous compressed gases. One fundamental rule…NEVER trap a liquid that has a high vapor pressure/low boiling point in a pipe or hose! To see the full size video, click on the “Read More” link below. … Membership Required You must be a member to access this...
Animation of January 23, 2010 Phosgene Accident Read More »
The CFATS Personnel Surety Program will provide high-risk chemical facilities with the mechanism to implement security measures to ensure that certain individuals are subject to screening for ties to terrorism. The program is necessary since conducting terrorist ties checks is an inherently governmental function because the federal governments Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) is not publicly…...
CFATS Personnel Surety Privacy Impact Assessment is now available Read More »
These days it is becoming common practice to utilize truck driver(s) of our hazardous material(s) deliveries to do more than just deliver the material. The line of thought in doing this, is that the drivers must be “qualified” or they would not be allowed to transport the hazardous materials. Well, they may be qualified to…...
Truck Drivers being your DOT HAZMAT Attendant and potential safety and health concerns Read More »
Almost weekly I see and hear the RMP “General Duty Clause” (GDC) being misquoted and improperly applied. In this article I hope to clarify many of the myths and misconceptions of what EPA actually requires in the application of their GDC’s to RMP chemicals. First and foremost, there is NO GET OUT OF JAIL FREE…...
What does EPA’s RMP “General Duty Clause” actually require? Read More »
UPDATED 6/15/11 – A lot of claims are being made by many training organizations that they can solve ALL your PSM/RMP training needs. Now let me set the record straight, I think a lot of these off-site training courses are a GREAT first pass for operators and maintenance to get the baseline understanding of the…...
Buyer BEWARE regarding offsite Operator and Maintenance training courses Read More »
Many facilities have contract security at the access points into their facility. But many facilities also expect their security guards to play a role in a facility emergency and in even rarer cases play a role in the facility’s safe work practices. Last week I posted the 911 call involving the worker crushed by a…...
Process Safety and Security Guards Read More »
This is video footage of the hotwork tank explosion next to the cruise ship incident that was in last nights incident alerts. An oil storage tank exploded in the port just metres from where a cruise ship was berthed – the explosion blew the lid off the tank and sent a fireball high into the…...
HOTWORK Tank Explosion (Video) Read More »
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PSM Chemical Plant NEP UPDATE March 2011 Read More »
UPDATED on 5/31/11 to answer some specific questions I received over the holiday weekend…Scenario: A process that is covered under PSM/RMP (a toxic liquefied gas under pressure) is in very close proximity to a propane system that is used solely as an on-site fuel. The propane system had always been exempted using the PSM exemption…...
PSM/RMP “co-location” or “proximity” when determing PSM/RMP Applicability Read More »
One of the most common errors we find when asked to audit an RMP is the Tornado Hazard (Section 7.4.d). With all the recent storms the last three months I bet I have gotten 50 calls and 100 e-mails asking about severe weather scenarios for facilities. In this post, I want to walk us through…...
Worst Case Release Scenario and Severe Weather Read More »
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