Propane cylinders must be periodically requalified to be safe for use. Do not use cylinders that have not been requalified because you risk property damage, severe injuries, or death. To see if your cylinder is okay to use, look for these markings:
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
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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
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.,
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
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
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
The following are key safety measures the EPA will use in its inspection of facilities storing/processing Anhydrous Ammonia (NH3). These are measures that EPA has determined should be in place, regardless of a facility’s age or size. This is not intended to be a comprehensive list of essential safety measures, but rather a subset of
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
