A flash fire broke out at 626 Lynnway on Monday morning after a worker with a private demo company cut a pipe, according to the Fire Department’s Public Information Officer. The worker was transferred to a Hospital with “minor burns.” The worker is expected to make a full recovery. The worker was carried out of […]
A contract worker died and two others were injured in an ammonia gas leak at a chemical factory. The three (3) contract workers, 24, 37, 24, were working at a chemical factory which was producing soda ash and other products. When they were trying to check an ammonia leak from a pipe around 3.15 p.m.,
In 2015 and 2022, I mentioned that the EPA proposed updating 68.85 by requiring Hot Work permits to be retained for five (5) years, where that frequency came from, and why they wanted to update the standard. Members can read… EPA proposing a retention period for Hot Work Permits and How long do you keep
The critical issue is that a proposed change’s direct and indirect effects on the control of hazards should be identified and assessed. Due to the greater potential consequences of an accident, major accident hazard sites should aim for greater reliability in their planning and decision-making. Avoid too many simultaneous changes, which may result in inadequate
The FMCSA has begun Phase III of a project to refine the non-destructive metallurgical testing method and protocol for detecting cracks in nurse tanks and to determine possible relationships to causal factors not previously considered in detail. Background:
A client recently underwent an RMP inspection by the US EPA. One of the issues the inspector took issue with was that the facility did not “certify” their 3-year audit. This stems from the following: (emphasis by me) EPA RMP § 68.79 Compliance audits(a) The owner or operator shall CERTIFY that they have evaluated compliance
It is 2024, 32 years after OSHA passed its Process Safety Management of Hazardous Chemicals standard. I am fortunate to have clients who have progressed in their PSM maturity, and we spend a lot of time these days working to get other processes into the PSMS. We start with processes that are not covered because
This rulemaking requires the Air Conservation Commission to develop a state rule and accept delegation from the EPA. This rulemaking will lay the groundwork for the Agricultural Anhydrous Ammonia RMP Compliance and Enforcement program. Once delegated, the oversight for the RMP program will transfer from EPA to DNR. The benefit of this rulemaking affects the
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a Request for Information (RFI) on December 9, 2013 (78 FR 73756). The RFI identified issues related tomodernization of the Process Safety Management standard and related standards necessary to meet the goal of preventing major chemical accidents. OSHA completed SBREFA in August 2016. OSHA held a stakeholder
All changes to an organizational structure or changes in personnel with specific Knowledge, Skills, Experience, and Behaviors (KSEB) must be assessed to understand the impact of the organizational change on safety. Any organizational change has the potential to introduce safety hazards and risks, and therefore, all changes to an organizational structure or changes in personnel
The systematic process to manage any change should follow the “Plan, Do, Check, Act” approach. This should start at the planning stage BEFORE: the change has been fully developed, continued and monitored during the change process and reviewed after it has been implemented. This systematic approach applied to all changes to equipment, infrastructure, policy, or
How much time does the owner or operator of a stationary source have to submit a correction to a Risk Management Plan when the emergency contact information changes?
