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SAFTENG has:
- Over 19,000 categorized unsafe acts/conditions and accident/injury photos
- Over 1,500 ppt's & doc's in the SAFTENG Library
- Over 5,000 Technical Articles on Process Safety, Emergency Response & OSH topics
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This report summarizes the results of a Campbell Institute research project to aggregate the best practices of world-class organizations in EHS around the management of contractor and supplier safety. The area of contractor safety management is especially pertinent in an increasingly global and complex world that involves work in multiple countries, non-routine work and the use of international...
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OSHA initiated an inspection on Aug. 4, 2015, under its national emphasis program focused on chemical manufacturers. Inspectors found deficiencies in the employer’s equipment process safety information, process hazard analysis, written operating procedures, contractor safety, equipment inspection and testing along with management of process changes, resulting in the citations.
PLEASE NOTE: this...
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Still one of the top questions and issues we come across today… ASME Data Sheets for Pressure Vessels. As I have written here many times, OSHA states U1 forms are NOT required for complying with the PSI requirements but don’t think for a second that a U1 form is not necessary for a fully functioning process safety management system. So it is my professional opinion that U1 forms...
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This video shows BOTH aspects of a Fall Protection Plan: Personal Fall Arrest System (PFAS) and Rescue. When BOTH aspects are in place we have SUCCESS!
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2016 Fatality Tracker
Electrical
1
(2015 = 38)
(2014 = 55)
(2013 = 32)
(2012 = 68)
Forklift/Aerial
7
(2015 = 48)
(2014 = 60)
(2013 = 62)
(2012 = 52)
Mining*
4
(2015 = 21)
(2014 = 401)
(2013 = 87*)
(2012 = 92*)
*ONLY USA
Explosions
8
(2015 = 135)
(2014 = 157)
(2013 = 194)
(2012 = 241)
Cranes
5
(2015 = 28)
(2014 = 20)
(2013 = 51)
(2012 = 52)
Falls
11
(2015 = 76)
(2014...
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The 316 stainless steel pressure vessel involved had been moved into the Commonwealth of Kentucky approximately ten years prior to the accident. The vessel had originally been used as an atmospheric vessel in the manufacture of ammonium bisulfite, a raw material for caramel color, and later converted to be used as a pressurized unit. The tanks were operated at atmospheric pressure...
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At a brewery in 1997, an operator confused filling nozzles for two commonly used acid cleaning agents and transferred nitric acid into a tank with P3, a proprietary phosphoric acid based cleaner that also contained 5-15 percent isopropanol. 10-15 minutes later the mixture exploded violently. The stainless steel tank disintegrated with such force that fragments lodged in walls of concrete. The explosion...
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A couple of weeks I posed this question, and I figured there is NOT a consensus among the safety community (including OSHA) as to whether (c)(5) AND (c)(7) can be used on the same PRCS at the same time. My position is NO, they can not be; but I am only one voice in the debate, and many excellent safety professionals have spoken up and said YES. I know it is not clear if we read all...
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A few months ago I wrote about this new refrigerant as having the catastrophic risk of a BLEVE event. Now I wish to offer some guidance on how a business utilizing this refrigerant can reduce the likelihood of this type of event. First, there are NO engineering standards that guide a manufacturer of an ASME pressure vessel in how to construct a pressure vessel so that it will not fail in a BLEVE...
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