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Respondent contends that it was improperly cited pursuant to OSHA’s National Emphasis Program (NEP). Specifically, Respondent contends that the NEP, in effect, creates a substantive rule that requires employers to comply with the National Fire Protection Association’s “Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions from the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate...
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Over the last decade or so it has become popular to utilize a “relief header” in the ammonia refrigeration process. And in more recent years, the practice of installing an ammonia detector in this relief header has become very popular. Here are some random thoughts about these detectors that employers need to think through when considering their installation. Bottom line:...
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On 28th August 1992, in a food factory, a liquefied nitrogen storage tank catastrophically failed, causing the destruction of the upper half of the factory as well as damaging other factories and structures partially, including the outer walls, window glass, and shutters of 25 buildings, 39 parked vehicles consisting of busses, trucks and cars, and electric poles in a circle with radius of 1,304’...
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UK’s HSE provides some EXCELLENT guidance on how ammonia refrigeration process safety can be managed. We have always taught our process safety courses with the underlying philosophy of process safety as PREVENT, PROTECT, MITIGATE, and in this HSE material they follow the same philosophy. This information is particularly helpful as they have matched up the FAILURE MODES with the PREVENT,...
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Today I learned of yet another SIGNIFICANT difference in complying with EPA’s RMP vs. OSHA’s PSM. Yes old dogs can learn new tricks and I am betting that I may not be the only old dog “out of compliance” with 68.200! We have been assisting a company with a US EPA RMP inspection and in doing so I have had the pleasure of working with a very sharp attorney. As we were working through some documentation...
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WARNING!!! This video is NOT for the faint of heart. It is REAL, it is GRAPHIC, and it is the result of NOT applying LOTO when climbing into an auger trough. The worker DID SURVIVE but he lost his leg, which for those who watch the video will clearly see that the limb could not be saved. I am serious about the WARNING – viewer discretion is HIGHLY ADVISED!
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On July 27, 2011, U.S. EPA conducted a compliance inspection at the facility to determine Respondent’s compliance with the Risk Management Program regulations. Based on the inspection, U.S. EPA alleges that Respondent has committed the following violations of the Risk Management Program regulations:
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Brand new utility boiler in 2000. Night crew not properly trained in switching over from gas to oil. During the commissioning, the night crew was ordered to switch over fuel. 3 minutes later a big pile of scrap metal and several million dollars of equipment gone.
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NEW & RENEWING Partners in Safety
since 2014
since 2013
since 2011
2014 Fatality Tracker
Electrical
18
(2013 = 32)
(2012 = 68)
Forklift/Manlift
16
(2013=62)
(2012 = 52)
Mining*
1741
2013=87*)
(2012 = 92*)
*no longer includes China
Explosions
45
(2013=194)
(2012 = 241)
Cranes
9
(2013=51)
(2012 = 52)
Falls
42
(2013=106)
(2012 = 99)
Work...
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One morning in 1888, Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, the man who had spent his life amassing a fortune from the manufacture and sale of weapons, awoke to read his own obituary. The obituary was printed as a result of a simple journalistic error. Alfred’s brother had died, and a French reporter carelessly reported the death of the wrong brother. Any man would be disturbed under the circumstances,...
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