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FREE PRCS Training via ASSP SW OH Chapter
Starting this month (September) I will be conducting four (4) training sessions on Permit-Required Confined Spaces.  These are FREE, with lunch provided, and will cover all aspects of implementing a PRCS Program, with each month covering a different element.  The four elements are: Evaluating Spaces – What makes a space a CS and what makes a CS a PRCS Establishing Entry Methods –...
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2018 Video of the Week #36 (Hot Work - flying spark and trashcan)
It only takes one spark and a trashcan with a flammable waste residue (e.g. vapor).  Now you understand why there is a 35′ fire safe area requirement… watch the spark travel and land in the trash can.  WARNING!  Turn down your volume – NSFW language.
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Top HAZMAT Violations (2018)
  Violation Code Violation Description # of Inspections # of Violations % of Total Violations # of OOS Violations OOS Percent 1 177.834A Package not secure in vehicle 3,154 3,277 9.71% 3,138 95.76% 2 107.620B No Copy Of US Dot Hazardous Materials Registration Number 2,269 2,269 6.73% 3 0.13% 3 177.817E Shipping paper accessibility 2,150 2,163 6.41% 9 0.42% 4 177.817A No or improper shipping...
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Process deviation indicators (i.e. alarms)
Imagine having a pressure vessel that has a MAWP of 300 psi and yet there is no high-pressure alarm before 300 psi is reached. How would an operator know he/she is approaching their consequence limit? As I wrote about earlier this year, a well-designed process will have both alarms – BEFORE the safe upper/lower operating limit is achieved so that the operator(s) can “AVOID the deviation”...
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Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS): Ammonia (Anhydrous)
Any individual or facility that possesses 10,000 lb. or more or more of ammonia (anhydrous)—expected to be less than 10% water—must report their chemical holdings to DHS. DHS regulates security at high-risk chemical facilities under the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program (6 CFR Part 27).  CFATS ensures high-risk facilities have security measures in place...
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2018 Photo of the Week #35 (Confusing E-Stop)
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Worker fatally injured when struck by pipe during pressure test
Incident summary A worker was completing a pressure test on the coil tube connector. The worker was positioned over the well head and was inadvertently contacted in the face by the test pipe, sustaining fatal injuries. Sequence of events … HomeRead More »
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2018 Video of the Week #35 (Fernie, BC NH3 Triple Fatality Animation)
 
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Smoking hazards
2018 Photo of the Week #34 (more smoking area insanity)
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2018 Video of the Week #34 (Crane Load Insanity - shooting fish in a barrel comes to mind)
 
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A robot, a conveyor, two different maintenance crews, and an amputation with no LOTO (OSHRC)
On July 31, 2016, a contract employee at an automobile manufacturing facility was replacing a motor on a robot on the first floor of the facility. While he did so, three maintenance technicians were performing a preventive maintenance inspection on a conveyor on the upper level of the facility. When the contract employee completed his task, he restarted the conveyor from the master control panel. The...
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Doing an MOC on changes to your ERT PPE can save you a lot of headaches and maybe a life!
For those who work and live in the world of Process Safety Management, the abbreviation MOC may make you and your colleagues cringe.  And when some “consultant” tells you that using the Management of Change (MOC) process for changes to our Emergency Response Equipment, especially PPE, you are probably thinking… SERIOUSLY?  I cant keep track of the ones I have open now! (that...
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