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Did you know… Ammonia (and Propane) gas is NOT white?

In every 24-hour HAZMAT course, we teach, we find that students getting their first official dose of “chemical safety” are shocked to find out that most gases at their facility are NOT white in color. Most have seen dozens of videos over their adult lives showing these large white clouds forming during releases of hazardous…...

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Ammonia Explosion 30 years ago this week

For many HAZMAT students, learning that a HAZMAT shipped as a Non-Flammable Class 2 HAZMAT can actually ignite is a sobering fact of emergency response. But when they find out this HAZMAT is anhydrous ammonia (NH3) there is a level of disbelief. But it was this week 30 years ago (9/17/84) at approximately 4:00 p.m.,…...

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2013 HAZMAT Loading/Unloading Incidents

U.S. Department of TransportationPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety AdministrationOffice of Hazardous Material Safety2013 (All Column Values) Hazmat Summary by Transportation Phase CLICK HERECLICK HERE to work with the database… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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NIOSH launches the NIOSH Center for Direct Reading and Sensor Technologies (NCDRST)

NIOSH launches the NIOSH Center for Direct Reading and Sensor Technologies (NCDRST). The new virtual center will serve as a home for NIOSH’s longstanding work in the area of exposure assessment devices—work that is done across the Institute.  The use of sensors has increased exponentially in professional applications and in everyday life. Countless remote wireless…...

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U.S. DOT Announces Comprehensive Proposed Rulemaking for the Safe Transportation of Crude Oil, Flammable Materials (Releases new data on Bakken crude oil to support increased safety measures)

The NPRM proposes enhanced tank car standards, a classification and testing program for mined gases and liquids and new operational requirements for high-hazard flammable trains (HHFT) that include braking controls and speed restrictions. Specifically, within two years, it proposes the phase out of the use of older DOT 111 tank cars for the shipment of…...

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BLEVE or Diesel Tank HIT?

Since January, I have been puzzled by the reporting from all agencies and media that the explosion shown in the video below involved a fuel oil tank.  I have been intimately involved with fire/explosion investigations for many years. I have never seen a type of fuel oil stored in an atmospheric storage tank under any…...

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OSHA’s TECHNICAL MANUAL on the LIMITATIONS of Explosibility (combustible gas) Sensors

I have written a number of articles on the “Limitations of Combustible Gas Indicator, especially about the limitations of the LEL sensors and the “correction calculations”. I thought this piece in OSHA’s Technical Manual was well written and explains the limitation well. So if you did not believe me or understand what I was trying…...

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Commissioning of a LNG Storage Tank (Video)

An interesting look at what it takes to commission a bulk LNG storage tank!  The numbers are mind boggling for field erection leak testing. Unique vision of LNG tank test from QGC – A BG Group business on Vimeo…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log...

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