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Respondent owns and operates a refinery which produces, processes, handles, or stores, over the threshold amount, hydrogen, methane, ethane, ethylene, propane, propylene, butane, iso-butane, pentane, pentene, and iso-pentane. All are listed at 40 C.F.R. § 68.130 as regulated substances based on their flammability. At the Facility, the Respondent also produces, processes, handles, or stores, over...
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This is an excellent demonstration showing the ignition of gasoline vapors with static electricity. A few important points to call out before you watch the video:
Gasoline vapors have an MIE less than 1.0 mJ
“Splashing filling” is a HUGE generator of static
Watch how they make a point to be sure the nozzle is NOT in contact with the container (e.g. nozzle NOT bonded to the...
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OSHA has cited a power plant and it’s security services provider, for $43,458 in total proposed penalties, following a release of anhydrous ammonia at its Gibsonton facility. On May 23, 2017, OSHA responded to the incident and determined that the ammonia release occurred when a relief valve activated after a pipeline became over pressurized. As a result, four workers were taken to...
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Proposes Over $1.8 Million in Fines Against a Corn Milling Facility After Fatal Grain Dust Explosion
OSHA has proposed $1,837,861 in fines against a corn milling facility following a May 31, 2017, explosion that killed five workers and injured 12 others, including a 21-year-old employee who suffered a double leg amputation after being crushed by a railcar. OSHA found that the explosion likely resulted from failures to correct the leakage and accumulation of highly combustible grain dust throughout...
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This week NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration posted an AWESOME RESOURCE for those of you responsible for your RMP’s Off-Site Consequence Analyzes (OCA) and EPCRA hazard analyses and who like to use CAMEO software suite when doing these off-site consequence analyses.
Part 1: Worst-Case Analysis (RMP)
Part 2: Alternative Analysis (RMP)
Part 3: ALOHA...
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There has been a lot of discussions these past several years about having an “in-house emergency response team” vs. relying on “external response services” (e.g. local FD or contracted services on a case-by-case basis). There is NO one right or wrong answer and each facility and its hazards and needs are all quite different. This week OSHA published a Fact Sheet...
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For those of you that do “fit-testing” what can you see in these photos that make you go Hmmmmm?
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1910.134 App A – Fit Testing Procedures (Mandatory)
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I am sorry I am a tad late on this year’s summary, but here are the numbers as they were in the latest database update. Some surprises here…
12,380 RMPs on file
1,328 RMPs have an accident history
24 RMPs have had a fatal RMP accident
16,598 RMP injuries have occurred at these RMP sites
127,039 people have been evacuated due to incidents at these RMP sites
$1,318,665,907 in property...
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This is from a recently posted Consent Decree for a fish processing facility. From all I have seen this facility did NOT have RMP Covered processes using Anhydrous Ammonia, Chlorine or Butane and all of these actions stem from a General Duty Clause agreement, which is by far the most significant GDC agreement I can remember. The facility used the Ammonia as a refrigerant, Chlorine...
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Leave it up to FM Global to lead the way in Hot Work Safety. I know in my career there has been no other force in hot work safety like FM Global (Formerly Factory Mutual). And I am guessing that all of these large loss fires in the construction industry these past couple of years has gotten a lot of insurance companies attention. So last month, FM Global issued a revised Property...
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Over the last 15+ years we have seen great improvements regarding piping installation(s) at PSM/RMP covered processes. Since 1992 (PSM implementation) these “covered processes” were required to adopt a RAGAGEP for all aspects of their covered process. ASME has had their B31 series in place for decades and they are the most widely recognized piping RAGAGEPs around. Although...
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