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WA-OSHA standards were revised a number of years ago, so they are in “plain English.” These are a GREAT SOURCE of information for anyone looking for a straight forward explanation of OSHA standard requirements. One particular standard that I found helpful was its Hazardous Location (HAZLOC) explanations.
These hazardous locations are classified as follows:
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Another excellent video of how world-class people respond to a workplace tragedy. We will all suffer such an event if we stay in this profession long enough. But hopefully, you will be surrounded by real leaders who rise to the occasion and LEAD, as leadership is the ONLY way out of such a tragedy. You will begin to doubt yourself, your abilities, your purpose in life (if you’re...
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OSHA answers five (5) questions regarding the relatively new standard, 1910.28 Duty to have fall protection and falling object protection. And I have to admit I found a couple of their answers interesting.
Question 1: 29 CFR § 1910.28(b)(9) requires fixed ladders (installed on or after November 19, 2018) that are more than 24 feet above the lower level, to be equipped with a personal fall arrest...
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I have been validated! I have received so many nasty grams from folks regarding my position on the ASSUMED PAPR Assigned Protection Factor of 1,000 which I wrote about in several postings going all the way back to 2015 of which this was my first attempt to educate and warn others of some flawed practices: What is the ACTUAL assigned protection factor for Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPR)...
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Seriously, in the year 2021/2022, we still have these questions asked of OSHA about a standard that has been in place since the mid-1980s.
Scenario 1:
Three (3) authorized employees are working on a pump.
Each energy source is de-energized and locked out by an employee in plant operations.
Then, the plant operations employee places the keys for each lockout device in a group lockbox in the plant control...
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OSHA once again clarifies that locking out the air source to a pneumatically powered control valve is NOT locking the energy isolation device!
When I taught at ASSP Seminarfest several years ago, the most disputed point was this very practice. I was very clear, which did not sit well with some attendees, that locking the air hoses to these valves was in NO WAY complaint – much less...
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This came from the International Civil Aviation Organization and was modified by yours truly for manufacturing facilities to adopt. It may be the best wording I have seen for what Safety is supposed to be at the C-Suite level within organizations.
Safety is…
“the state in which the possibility of harm to persons or of property damage is reduced to, and maintained at or below, an acceptable...
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This is a MUST WATCH video and yes it is long, but it is a video every safety professional and even management personnel needs to watch. For those still living in the world of Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) and you think that is just fine – WAKE THE HELL UP PEOPLE! As they explain in this video, TRIR is for government agencies to monitor entire industry sectors. It was...
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At 8:45 p.m. on May 7, 2021, an employee and his coworkers were unloading a fertilizer hopper railcar when the Urea got stuck. They were using a compressor-driven vibrator on each side of the car as well as having employees hit the outside of the car with hammers. The employee and a coworker got up on the car to open the hatch and see if they could dislodge the clumped materials. The employee entered...
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At 5:00 p.m. on January 31, 2021, an employee was loading a below-ground pit with dry sawdust when he dropped his cell phone into the pit. While attempting to retrieve the cell phone, he fell into the pit and was engulfed by the loose sawdust which suffocated and killed him.
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Incident #1 – At 11:30 a.m. on February 19, 2021, an employee was cleaning a fermented yogurt tanker with a hot water pressure washer. The employee entered the tanker to access the front and back of the tank. A coworker reported hearing a noise and then the sound of the wash water stopping. The employee fell and hit his head while trying to exit the tanker. He had been asphyxiated due to oxygen...
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At 1:00 p.m. on May 25, 2021, Employee #1 and Employee #2 were conducting maintenance work on a pump above a leachate vault. A coworker dropped a cellphone inside the vault and left to look for a tool to retrieve the cellphone. Employee #1 and Employee #2 entered the vault to retrieve the phone and were overcome by methane and hydrogen sulfide gases and were killed.
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