At 12:30 p.m. on February 7, 2022, an employee, 45, was disconnecting the discharge line of a 4-inch mobile water pump. The discharge line was blocked with ice, and the running pump was deadheaded, leading to a buildup of heat and pressure in the discharge line after the check valve.
Another tragic ending to a “Line Break” gone bad. This one involved opening a flange on a steam line in an attempt to “bleed off” the steam by loosening flange bolts. IT DID NOT GO AS PLANNED, and two workers perished with 70% burns! At 6:52 p.m. on August 10, 2020, two (2) employees (30)
A 45-year-old senior fire captain is facing charges after authorities say he improperly conducted respirator fit tests for firefighters and lied about it. He is charged with forgery and tampering with records, the County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday. He signed reports stating the tests had been completed when they had not been finished between Jan.
The PSM standard requires the employer’s PHA team to evaluate human factors during its process hazard analysis. CCPS defines human factors as “a common term given to the widely-recognized discipline of addressing interactions in the work environment between people, a facility, and its management systems.” The basic principle of assessing human factors is to determine
The Management of Change (MOC) section of the PSM standard requires the employer to implement written procedures for managing changes (except for replacements in kind) to processes involving chemicals, technology, equipment, procedures, and changes to facilities that affect a covered process. The MOC procedure requires descriptions of the technical basis for the change, impact on
OSHA has identified the following mistakes found at PSM facilities nationwide. These mistakes were identified at refineries; however, almost all can be found within any PSM-covered process. I have revised OSHA’s wording so that we can ALL learn from these mistakes. PLEASE do not fall for the old trap of “Bryan, we are not a
Employers can use the Safety Pays Individual Injury Estimator to assess the impact of occupational injuries and illnesses on their profitability. This program uses a company’s profit margin, the average costs of an injury or illness, and an indirect cost multiplier to project the amount of sales a company would need to generate to cover
The following NFPA and ANSI standards, in whole or in part, are to be incorporated by reference into proposed rule 1910.156, per 29 CFR 1910.6. See 29 CFR 1910.6(a)(1). Provisions in the proposed standard are drawn from, or consistent with, the following NFPA standards, but these standards are not proposed to be incorporated by reference:
This unfortunate event is the result of the same failure seen in nearly every industrial facility on the planet… a guarding interlock gets bypassed, and a worker pays an unimaginable price for the failure. Sometimes it’s the worker(s) who bypass the interlock, and other times they are the unknowing victim of the bypass. Here is
The question was asked of OSHA… Whether the use of paraffin wax as a form of topical heat application is considered medical treatment beyond first aid for OSHA recordkeeping purposes?
An HVAC technician uses a portable ladder to access a low slope roof 12 feet high. The ladder is secured to the building and is placed at a 4/1 angle. The side rails of the ladder extend three feet above the roof landing. The HVAC unit to be worked on is 25 feet from the
OSHA standard at 29 CFR 1910.25(c)(4) applies to places of employment and requires standard stairs to have a minimum width of 22 inches (56 cm) between vertical barriers. OSHA does not consider a handrail to be a vertical barrier or obstruction to that required minimum width.
