Most safety pros have seen the videos of workers in car washes doing some outlandish behaviors. We may have been snickered at what we watched. But this is the real result of what we saw in those videos… At midnight on January 13, 2024, an employee, 26, cleaned the car wash tunnel and equipment. The…...
I have been sharing this battle in my social media groups; but now the PHMSA has gotten pulled into the battle and was quick to respond to a request for an interpretation. Response Publish Date: 05/28/2024 Company Name: Individual Name: Mr. Fred Storer Location State: OK Country: US Response text:… Membership Required You must...
Please note, this is NOT a chemical process safety incident, but the design failures and human errors are directly related to process safety hazards. The design of a new passenger ferry’s engine and inadequate follow-on training for engineering crewmembers led to a 2022 fire aboard a Staten Island Ferry. The fire broke out in the…...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General is issuing this fraud alert to highlight an increasingly common phishing scam involving fraudulent EPA Notice of Violation letters. In this scam, a fraudster sends a falsified EPA Notice of Violation letter to a target business and requests that the business respond by phone or email…....
The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) updated its published list of reported chemical release incidents. These are not incidents that the CSB is investigating, these are incidents that were reported to the CSB under their Accidental Release Reporting rules (40 CFR 1604)…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a...
Chainsaws and Human Factors This module looks at finding the balance between production, distractions and safety concerns in an effort to avoid hazards. Category: Hazards Core Component(s): Incident Reviews and Lessons Learned, Human Factors, Communication and Decision Making Estimated Delivery Time: 30 minutes Video Length: 14:11… Membership Required You must be a member to access...
This article is in line with this week’s [My] Safety Thought of the Week (Manage Safety the same as Quality). I hope to explain the 3-5-year plan I offer clients who have decided it is time for a formally structured management system to manage the risks their workers face. It is a quite simple plan…...
I have discussed this approach before but think it is worth repeating. In our SMS/Safety Process, we need to view the men and women who do our dirty and dangerous work as our “customers,” just like we view our business customers through the lens of our Quality Management System (QMS). Imagine the outcome if we…...
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UPDATED 7/26/2024 with drone images, fatality count, and preliminary investigation findings Two (2) of the factory’s 219,000-liter (57,850-gallon) tequila vats ruptured, triggering a fire in three (3) other tanks. One 500,000 liters (132,086 gallons) suffered a HIT and traveled nearly 700′, landing in a residential area. The explosion within the plant killed seven (7) workers;…...
I love the CSB’s work, but this study could have been said in really simple terms… State Fire Code(s)! I have written dozens of articles explaining the specific requirements of the International Fire Code (IFC), from which most of the 50 states have adopted some “revised” version. Chapter 50 of the IFC (and those states…...
Many thanks to my friend in safety down under, Mr. Peter Hunt, Director and Principal Consultant, Whamcorp Pty Ltd On 25 March 1991, a contractor died after an ammonia tank he was upgrading exploded at the ICI plant. BACKGROUND… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log...
