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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urge employers (owners and operators) to conduct a root cause analysis following an incident or near miss at a facility.1 A root cause is a fundamental, underlying, system-related reason why an incident occurred that identifies one or more correctable system failures.2 By conducting...
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The information in this report is preliminary and will be supplemented or corrected during the course of the investigation.
On August 27, 2016, about 8:26 a.m. eastern daylight time, tank car AXLX 1702, specification DOT 105J500W, experienced a sudden tank shell crack shortly after it was filled with liquefied compressed chlorine at a rail car loading facility in New Martinsville, West Virginia. During...
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Fire and Building Code Officials are likely seeing the new Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) and new Safety Data Sheets with new chemical hazard pictograms. This ICC FACT SHEET is intended to provide Fire and Building Code Officials information relative to the modified OSHA Hazardous Communications Standard (HazCom) and address the potential...
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Although the dates of these letters are eariler this year, they were just posted…
Responsible party’s address and phone number on SDSs and labels [1910.1200(c)]
Requirements for labeling of products shipped for export to domestic and international destinations, under the revised Hazard Communication Standard (HCS 2012) [1910.1200(f)(1)(i)]
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These past two weeks we have seen some interesting developments on two OSHA actions: 1) anti-retaliation provisions in the new record-keeping rule and 2) Walking-Working Surfaces and Personal Protective Equipment (Fall Protection Systems) in General Industry (Subpart D and Subpart I) . It seems a judge has delayed OSHA’s enforcement of its anti-retaliation provisions in the...
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In my HAZMAT classes, I always ask the question: A container of diesel fuel is at its flash point, and a gasoline container is at its flash point – an ignition source is present within the container – which container ignites first? Nearly 100% of the students will say the gasoline container and nearly 100% are WRONG! The reason: Diesel fuel has an LEL of around 0.5%,...
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In my upbringing in the chemical industry I had the opportunity to work with some outstanding engineers; too many to mention by name. These men and women took time out of their busy schedules to teach me process safety. One of these engineers was very strict about his process piping and every engineer in the units that were PSM (and then RMP later on) were expected to be intimately familiar...
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MANY THANKS to Matt Bunner, Safety Professional Extraordinaire, for sharing this video with us. I always knew it could happen and here we see it happening. The bolt turns in one direction and the nut turns in the other. SAFETY PINS MATTER!
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The ZorbitTM Energy Absorber is used with horizontal lifeline systems to limit fall arrest forces on the worker in the event of a fall. 3M Fall Protection (formerly Capital Safety) has identified a production issue with its Zorbit Energy Absorbers that creates a risk of serious injury or death for a user in the event of a fall from height. Although there have been no reported accidents...
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Between 2005 and 2015 there were 85 DEATHS due to fires or explosions, including 28 HW deaths. Causes of these fatalities include improper hot work practices and assuming that empty oilfield equipment does not present a fire or explosion hazard.
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Enforcement Delay Notice Note: OSHA is NOT implementing the July 2015 memo on the retail exemption. The Department is considering its options in light of the D.C. Circuits decision in Agricultural Retailers Association et al. v. United States Department of Labor and OSHA (D.C. Cir. Case Nos. 15-1326 and 15-1340).
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