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You get to pick ONLY three (3) pieces of data about a chemical you have responded to. You know the chemical, so what would the three (3) pieces of data you would want to know be and why? Here are my three and why…
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Here is OSHA’s current interpretation of the HAZWOPER standard as it relates to IDLH operations. The LOI specifically addresses the HAZWOPER requirement for workers who are engaged in remedial operations as well as in emergency response operations in atmospheres that are or may be IDLH AND who utilize self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) for the control of inhalation hazard(s).
The HAZWOPER...
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WARNING! If you have an ER instructor who claims you can enter the Hot or Warm zone the first time in using LEVEL C PPE, you need to fire them!
I have been conducting HAZMAT training for 28 years, and every year, I pick up a few new ER clients who need a refresher course. And every year, those who attend one of my 8-hr refresher courses are surprised to hear me say…
The minimum level of...
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Just about every manufacturing facility will have a compressed air system. Some of these may be the size of what some of us have in our garages, but many will be industrial-sized units. BOTH sizes pose catastrophic risks. As shown in this United Steel Workers Incident Alert, these catastrophic failures can cost lives and jobs.
A paper worker was killed and four others were sent to the emergency...
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Respondent operated a facility (the “Facility”) that stores and distributes anhydrous ammonia. The Facility receives anhydrous ammonia from oceangoing vessels and stores it in two interconnected insulated tanks. The Facility includes three pressure tanks storing fertilizer-grade ammonia (Fl through F3) and four pressure tanks storing refrigeration-grade ammonia (R1 through R4). Respondent...
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Penalty adjustments aim to improve workplace safety
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has updated its guidance on penalty and debt collection procedures in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Field Operations Manual in an effort to minimize the burden on small businesses and increase prompt hazard abatement.
“All employers should be offered the opportunity to...
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The internet is just full of “consultants” who will take your money to teach your org “SIF”!
These snakeoil salespeople are destroying the credibility and trust of the consulting profession, and it must stop. All this rebranding/repackaging of the basic safety efforts from the 90s and 2000s, and then NOT even doing it right, is putting far too many workers at risk. But they don’t see it, they only...
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A seatbelt is a tool for safety. It is designed, constructed, installed, and at the ready for use. Its cost, availability, and ease of proper use may be the greatest safety invention of our generation.
But it’s a tool that requires the human to have the desire to use it. It provides ZERO benefit if it goes unused.
So, like any safety tool, we have to lead an effort in creating an environment where...
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It’s not all that difficult.
It won’t break the bank; in fact, it can improve productivity and reduce costs when done well.
But it demands a desire to do what is right for the men and women doing our dirty and dangerous work.
Without the desire for greatness in safety from the most senior leaders within an organization, achieving it will be a frustrating and demeaning waste of time and resources.
It...
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On July 9, 1959, the Charlotte Fire Department responded to a fire at the former Charlotte Chemical Company on West Templeton Avenue, just off South Boulevard. The building, then under demolition, still housed a large vat of chemical material in the basement. Believing the substance to be kerosene, firefighters fought the fire with standard tactics—until they switched to foam, triggering a powerful...
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On March 5, 2025, at 10:55 a.m., a welder, 57, with over seven (7) years of mining experience, died when he became entangled in a belt conveyor tail roller. The accident occurred because the mine operator did not de-energize and block the No. 12 belt conveyor against hazardous motion.
GENERAL INFORMATION
The mine is a surface crushed and broken granite quarry located in North Carolina. The mine...
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Recently, we had the never-ending debate about locking out valves being used as energy isolation devices. Somewhere/Sometime ago, a vicious rumor/practice found some legs, and we began seeing the practice during our audits. The unsafe and non-OSHA-compliant practice of disconnecting the power source from a Fail-Safe Closed valve and locking out the valve’s power source as a means to “lock...
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