Hazardous Materials

The North Dakota Industrial Commission has adopted new conditioning standards to improve the safety of Bakken crude oil for transport.  Order No. 25417 sets operating standards for conditioning equipment to properly separate production fluids into gas and liquid. The order includes parameters for temperatures and pressures under which the equipment must operate to ensure that…...

The maximum allowable quantity per control area is specified in Tables 5003.1.1(1) through 5003.1.1(4) of the IFC.  Tables 5003.1.1(1) through 5003.1.1(4) establish the maximum quantities allowed in a control area (see Section 5003.8.2 for design and protection requirements). If the quantity of chemicals used in a building does NOT exceed the maximum allowed per control…...

Over the years I have posted several articles about hazardous materials being unloaded to the wrong tank.  And it seems that each time I do I get several e-mails stating how rare these events are and that I am being an alarmist.  So I thought I would post a section of a PHMSA Investigation Report…...

PHMSA is amending the Hazardous Materials Regulations to maintain alignment with international standards by incorporating various amendments, including changes to proper shipping names, hazard classes, packing groups, special provisions, packaging authorizations, air transport quantity limitations, and vessel stowage requirements. These revisions are necessary to harmonize the Hazardous Materials Regulations with recent changes made to the…...

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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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.,…...

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…...