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I am proud to announce that SAFTENG and The Chlorine Institute have renewed our partnership for another year (through 2026). Members of The Chlorine Institute receive a FREE SAFTENG membership. If you qualify, please contact me
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SAFTENG has:
- Over 19,000 categorized unsafe acts/conditions and accident/injury photos
- Over 1,500 ppt's & doc's in the SAFTENG Library
- Over 5,000 Technical Articles on Process Safety, Emergency Response & OSH topics
- Over 450 videos (those not allowed on YouTube Channel)
Many THANKS to my NEW Members and those who CONTINUE to support SAFTENG:
First I want to thank my Pittsburg friends for another great visit and for being my “think-tank” of world-class engineers and chemists. I always leave smarter and happier after my time with these folks. And with all my visits I always come away with great real-world examples of how process safety is supposed to be done! For years I have been harping on using a “tell-tale...
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As we discussed last week, the 7th Edition of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) has quite the change as it relates to flammable gases. We now know there are three (3) Categories of flammable Gases: 1A, 1B, and 2. The 1B is the new one and was in put in place to manage the new flammable refrigerants that are replacing the Ozone Depleting...
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First thing – Rest In Peace Gerardo Castorena and Frank Flores and may God be with your loved ones during this most difficult time. Also to the residents who have lost their homes and/or been displaced, I wish you a speedy return to some sense of normalcy. And to the workers who have lost their way of living and wonder what their future holds I wish you peace of mind and comfort.
I...
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Each time I share a video of foolishness putting people at risk I always catch slack from people in the USA about how the video shows “3rd world behaviors” – never mind all the videos and pics showing Americans at gas pumps using plastic bags, 5-gallon buckets, etc. at fuel pumps. Here is another one from within the USA; it is quite worrisome as the young lady is being directed...
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During stakeholder outreach as part of EO 13650 and during OSHA’s PSM SBREFA (Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act), OSHA and EPA received multiple comments from stakeholders expressing confusion on the applicability and overlap between OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) standard and EPA’s Risk Management Plan (RMP) regulation. In the Clean Air Act Amendments of...
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I have written over a dozen articles on the big change in automobile manufacturing and their new refrigerant HFO-1234yf which is going into almost all vehicles made today. Today HFO-1234yf is a Category 1 Flammable gas, hence it is a Highly Hazardous Chemical (HHC) and when the process exceeds 10,000 pounds of this refrigerant the process is a PSM Covered Process. That is today and in December...
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I am not an electrician, I don’t even consider myself a Qualified Electrical Worker, but I do know Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices (and I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last week). I do not do a lot of electrical safety training (except for existing clients), but it seems that every time I have done my Intro to Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices I am always challenged on two simple...
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Too many safety professionals still to this day think that to reclassify a Permit-Required Confined Space (PRCS) is simply to lock out all the energy sources that made the space a PRCS. In August of last year, I posted a story where I asked the 30,000 members of the SAFTENG network if an enclosed palletizer was a PRCS. (see pic below for example) Overwhelmingly the members agreed that the...
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“Minor” LOPC events that are allowed to continue over a weekend can be a COSTLY MISTAKE! Any LOPC event MUST be reported ASAP to that it can be addressed, regardless of how “minor” it may be considered! We have to keep our HHC/EHS’s in their PRIMARY CONTAINMENT and when we have a failure that lets the “tiger out of its cage” we need to address it...
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OSHA has cited a refinery for serious violations of safety and health hazards related to process safety management (PSM) following a fire and subsequent explosions at the company’s Refinery Complex in June 2019. The company faces $132,600 in penalties. OSHA’s inspection found deficiencies in the refinery’s PSM program, including failing to establish or implement written procedures, insufficient...
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Opening a Natural Gas Condensate line with a battery-operated drill inside a compressor building is ASKING for trouble. Basic HAZLOC work practices include using INTRINSICALLY SAFE tools that are APPROVED for the HAZLOC, which has been an OSHA requirement since 1981…
1910.307(c) Electrical installations. Equipment, wiring methods, and installations of equipment in hazardous (classified)...
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Respondent is the owner and operator of a facility that had greater than 10,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia in a process at each of its facilities. From the time Respondent first had onsite greater than 10,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia in a process, Respondent was subject to the requirements of 40 C.F.R. Part 68 because it was an owner and operator of a stationary source that had more than a threshold...
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