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February 1, 2018
UPFRONT DISCLAIMER: I am not suggesting you throw out any of your LOTO devices or change your practices. This is NOT advice, merely an attempt to demonstrate how some companies go above and beyond OSHA minimums.
In my days working in the chemical industries, I had the pleasure of working with some of the finest plant managers, engineers, and safety professionals. And in...
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February 1, 2018
The topic of human factors (HF) is often times misunderstood and sadly sometimes not even a thought during a Process Design/Engineering Review or a Process Hazards Analysis. Now I know some of you will scream… “we are not a refinery” so there is no need for us to go to this level in our efforts to ensure human factors are a core component of our process design. But this...
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February 1, 2018
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has set the date for “oral arguments” (Friday, March 16, 2018, 9:30 A.M. USCA Courtroom 31) challenging EPA’s delay of the Risk Management Plan (RMP) Amendments. The case is 17-1155 Air Alliance Houston, et al., v. EPA and E. Scott Pruitt.
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February 1, 2018
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has set the date for “oral arguments” (3/16/2018) challenging EPA’s delay of the Risk Management Plan (RMP) Amendments. The case is Air Alliance Houston, et al., v. EPA and E. Scott Pruitt.
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January 28, 2018
Since 2014, two workers in B.C. have been seriously injured in flash fires linked to non-bonded fuel hoses (i.e., hoses that cannot dissipate static electricity). In the second incident, the worker’s injuries were fatal. This bulletin explains the hazards. We aim to ensure that everyone involved in the storage, transportation, delivery, and transfer of fuel understands that fuel hoses must be...
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January 28, 2018
Industrial
PRCS FATALITY– ONE ENTRANT – ONE WOULD BE RESCUER – OXYGEN DEFECIENT Man dies in hospital following industrial accident in Hamilton (one of two men who were rescued from a tanker truck in Hamilton on Thursday evening has succumbed to his injuries in hospital around 5:30 p.m. – one employee entered the tanker and then collapsed – a second employee then...
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January 27, 2018
This month OSHA published a FATAL FACT #16-2018 to raise awareness of confined space hazards on farms after a farm maintenance worker died after entering an 8,000-gallon polyethylene storage tank. At the time of the incident, the tank contained liquid whey, known to produce carbon dioxide gas as it decomposes. A broken ball valve inside the tank needed to be replaced....
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January 27, 2018
In 2016 EPA revised some of the EPCRA reporting requirements based on OSHA’s revision of their Hazardous Communications Standard (now called the GHS). This revision involved the hazard categories in the regulations at 40 CFR part 370 for reporting under Sections 311 and 312 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). On March 26th, 2012, OSHA...
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January 26, 2018
This is video footage from an anhydrous ammonia (NH3) leak (liquid leak) and does an excellent job of showing how NH3 will behave when released as a liquid, with a boiling point of -28ºF. The videographer may not have known how close he was to “death” while shooting his/her footage, but the wind was his best friend, as can be seen in the footage. Be sure to watch the videos...
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