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2019 Summary of U.S. Agricultural Confined Space-Related Injuries and Fatalities (Purdue University)
Since the 1970’s Purdue University’s Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department has been documenting and investigating incidents involving grain storage and handling facilities at both commercial and on-farm locations. Beginning in 2013, the effort was expanded, with support from a U.S. Department of LaborSusan Harwood Training Grant, to include incidents involving grain transport vehicles...
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NOTE: Under our Pandemic, my bet OSHA is not going to enforce a lot of this, but I thought it would be a timely reminder as I have received numerous questions about working from home.
The OSH Act applies to work performed by an employee in any workplace within the United States, including a workplace located in the employee’s home. All employers, including those which have entered into...
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Section 112 (r)(1) of the Act, commonly referred to as the General Duty Clause addresses the prevention of releases of substances listed pursuant to Section 112(r)(3) ofthe Act, or any other extremely hazardous substance. The purpose of this section is to prevent the accidental release of extremely hazardous substances and to minimize the consequences of such releases. The General Duty Clause provides...
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The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has approved a consent decree between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform, Clean Water Action, and Natural Resources Defense Council. The consent decree requires EPA to issue long-overdue rules requiring robust hazardous substance spill-prevention and response...
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When your hand sanitizer has 50% more Alcohol it will be at least a Category 3 Flammable Liquid – just review the SDS for your product of choice if you doubt me. In fact, some hand sanitizers with higher Alcohol percentages may be a Category 2 Flammable Liquid. In the light of COVID-19 virus pandemic, these products are being hoarded in large quantities by individuals and I can assure...
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Earlier this year I wrote an article about the International Fire Code (IFC) and its practice of limiting flammable liquids outside of proper storage means, such as cabinets and rooms. In that article I posted the OSHA requirements but did not explain how the OSHA requirements applied to workplaces, rather I chose to use the IFC as it is much more relevant and up-to-date than OSHA’s 1910.106...
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The bulletin sets out the key precautions require to protect personnel from this hazard:
MAIB safety bulletin 1-2020: Resurgam
Inadvertent discharge of a condensed aerosol fire extinguishing system during its installation onboard the fishing vessel Resurgam (PZ 1001) on November 15, 2019, with loss of 1 life.
Recommendation
FirePro has been recommended (S2020/114) to issue a safety alert to the owner/operators...
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What happened?
While conducting a fire watch round on a vessel in port, a 2nd mate noticed that a fire blanket on the midships fire hose box had caught fire. He immediately reported this to the Bridge and used an extinguisher to put the fire out.
What went wrong?
The fire started after a third-party team (hired to remove sea-fastenings) had LEFT THE JOB TO HAVE LUNCH after cleaning the grillages on...
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Styrene polymerization caused ship explosions during transfer (Marine Accident Investigation Branch)
Styrene has been a chemical I just can not seem to get away from. I dealt with it throughout my career in the petro-chem industry and now as a consultant, I have a number of clients who use this flammable liquid in a number of different processes. In 2005 I was consulted about a leaking styrene railcar in my hometown of Cincinnati – not many people get to have that much fun on their...
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Independent, systematic audits check that risk-control systems and management arrangements within the Safety Management System (SMS) are effective. An audit is an independent, systematic check of risk-control safeguards and the SMS to ensure business objectives are met. An audit can be an internal audit (first party, conducted by the organization) or an external audit (second or third party,...
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SAFTENG is 25 years old this year and from day 1, the most popular materials have been the graphic injury/accident photos. In my early years, I used them myself, but as I gained more experience and became a follower of Dr. Scott Geller I began to reshape my views on “shock safety”. He convinced me that we would never succeed in scaring workers to behave safely by showing them...
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The one thing this Virus is “maybe” teaching the general public is:
Risk = Probability x Severity
When we are told to limit our exposure to large groups of 100 or more that is based on a “probability” and when the elderly and immune compromised individuals are told to stay inside that is based on both Probability AND Severity. I have not seen the actual numbers as to who and how the “groups of 100”...
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