2018 Video of the Week #4 (Safe Distances on emergency scenes)
2018 Photo of the Week #4 (PRCS “Life line”)
So the permit says I have to have on a harness with a “lifeline” attached and the other end attached to a fixed point outside the PRCS, so here’s how I feel about my “lifeline”…
Sling inspection records
OSHA’s Slings Standard (29 CFR 1910.184) specifies several paperwork requirements, depending on the type of sling paragraph (e) of the Standard covers alloy steel chain slings; paragraph (f) covers wire rope slings; paragraph (g) covers metal mesh slings; paragraph (h) covers natural and synthetic fiber-rope slings; and paragraph (i) covers synthetic web slings) The purpose of each of
What does a “Hierarchy of Hazard Controls Analysis (HCA)” look like?
To make this simple, I like to use this slide from my Process Safety course for a visual aid in how we should be “looking at process safety”… It also does a decent job of outlining what a HCA could look like. More on HCA’s later…
Break-down of WA-OSHA (DOSH) NEW PSM standard for Refineries
This is a highlighted version of WA-OSHA’s DRAFT of their proposed PSM standard for refineries. I have highlighted those areas that are “new” as compared to OSHA’s PSM Standard (1910.119).
WA-OSHA has released its DRAFT language for its PSM Standard for Refineries
Last year we saw the state of California implement their “PSM for Refineries” standard and now the state of Washington’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is releasing draft language for a new chapter that will ONLY apply to Process Safety Management (PSM) for petrochemical refining facilities. This Process Safety Management rulemaking is in the
Relief System Design Basis Tips from Canada’s TSSA
Here is some good ole sound advice on relief valves from our friends to the north (Technical Standards & Safety Authority). These are some good basic rules to follow, regardless of what country your pressure vessel operates.
When piping pressure tests go bad
Case #1 At 10:15 a.m. on February 12, 2015, an employee was working from the elevated basket of a manlift, installing sheetrock in an area of the job site where water piping was undergoing pneumatic testing, at 130 psi. At the same time, another contractor was performing a compressed air leak test. An 80-pound section
This is why using your hazardous material to perform the pressure or leak testing is NOT a good idea
On June 29, 2005, Employee #1 was involved in the following the maintenance activities in the Chloropyridines Complex at the employer’s chemical manufacturing facility. Employee #1 was returning a reactor vessel to service. He was attempting to do a pressure and leak test using chlorine gas. The pipe was supposed to be pressure tested with
One Entrant, Two “would-be rescuers” Fatal PRCS Incident (2017, H2S, Sewer Pipe)
It is 24 years after OSHA promulgated it’s Permit-Required Confined Space standard and then in 2015 OSHA promulgated their Confined Spaces in Construction standard and yet we continue to see more “would-be rescuers” dying in Permit-Required Confined Spaces as do actual “entrants”. We can only hope that one-day worker training and awareness will end the “would-be
2018 IFC changes the “leak detection” and “emergency shutoff” requirements for high hazard gases and liquids
I am not quite sure why they did this, but the ICC decided that the requirements for “leak detection” and “emergency shutoff” for high hazard gases and liquids ONLY apply when the “maximum allowable quantity per control” area is exceeded. This was done by moving these requirements from Section 5003 where they applied to any quantity