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An IN automotive manufacturing facility has been fined $224,000 by the Indiana – OSHA for five alleged safety violations following the death of an employee in October. A female worker, 44, died after an incident with a machine at the plant on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. The preliminary cause of her death was ruled multiple blunt force trauma, but a final cause has not yet been determined, according...
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What’s changed in CAMEOfm 3.4 and Tier2 Submit 2017? A BIG change for those of you submitting RMP(s), Tier2 Submit is stopping support for the older MER file format. See below for more, but the new file format will be in place in 2018!
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One of the sad trends we continue to see in OSH centers around the use of respirators and facial hair. OSHA has stated more times that I can count on two hands that facial hair is NOT allowed in the face-to-mask seal area. In fact, personnel are NOT even permitted to be fit-tested if they have facial hair. And yet we still see personnel who are in respirator programs with full...
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The short answer is yes, but the fact that they have negotiated this deal for a company to begin using NH3 over R-22 is very telling. This month EPA settled a case in which the agreement required the company to replace R-22 with NH3 freezers on some fishing vessels. The company will implement enhanced leak detection practices and replace freezer equipment to address violations of the...
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The US EPA has been providing hurricane response updates on a weekly basis and one small bit of data really stands out to me. Last week I posted that over 950 storage vessels were captured after they broke away from their process; however, it should be noted that NONE of these vessels involved an RMP Covered Process. EPA teams have assessed 285 fixed facilities in Puerto Rico and 91...
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I am curious to know how other facilities manage this situation. Having been a FPE for several years in my career, I grew up learning that if there is one “sacred rule” regarding hot work it is that Hot Work is NEVER EVER done when the sprinkler system is out of service. It was one of those rules you did not even ask for a “variance” as you would be looked upon in...
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The state and federal political climate is just crazy these days! We now have one of our original 13 colonies claiming they have a constitutional right to manage their state EPCRA program as they see fit and not how Federal EPA believes it should be managed and how their own 2015 Manual said it was to be managed. The state of NJ, in some strange interpretation, have come to believe...
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We all grimace when we hear about an accident when a special part of the male anatomy is involved. Most would think it is a rare event, injuring one’s penis, yet when OSHA has enough accidents for this injury type to have it’s own “category” we should maybe pay attention…
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On Oct. 11, 2012, a worker, 62, was killed at a tuna processing facility while he was loading a 35-foot-long Retort (see here for example of a retort). A co-worker, who mistakenly believed the worker was in the bathroom, filled the retort with 12,000 pounds of canned tuna and turned it on, according to a report by the CAL-OSHA. The deceased had entered the retort without the proper energy...
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