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I often discuss how organizations need to audit, inspect, and verify their safeguards to either reduce the probability or severity of an undesired event. Most safety professionals are accustomed to auditing our safe work practices, behaviors, and other related aspects. In Process Safety, most safety engineers are accustomed to conducting annual functional testing of their safety instrumented systems....
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Big changes in the Province of British Columbia for boilers, pressure vessels, and NH3 refrigeration processes. The Province has published Ministerial Order M225-2024 that provides amendments to the Power Engineers, Boiler, Pressure Vessel and Refrigeration Safety Regulation (PEBPVRSR). These amendments will update the Schedule to the PEBPVRSR by adopting the new editions of the codes. Other amendments...
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Since 2024, 33 mines have been granted the use of a Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR) through the Petition for Modification process.
Electromagnetic interference can cause failure of a miner-worn Proximity Detection System (PDS) if it is not worn as recommended, such as being worn TOO CLOSE to the battery or motor/blower of a PAPR.
The illustrations show how miners can position these devices...
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The day has arrived! IN-OSHA, a state-plan agency, has issued a citation to a chemical manufacturer regarding its Safety Data Sheet (SDS) for Ammonium Hydroxide (NH₄OH). OSHA took issue because the SDS did not provide the LEL/UEL range for this chemical. Now I could argue that NH₄OH is NOT a flammable liquid, and therefore, this may be a stretch, actually, to issue this citation. Granted, NH3 gas...
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This is the first and only PSM citation that I have seen from IN-OSHA. It is a single violation cited for contractor safety, and it appears it may have been related to an incident involving a contractor working on an Ammonium hydroxide tank. I am NOT certain about this, just trying to read between the lines in the citations.
However, as rare the IN-OSHA PSM citation is, the one that really caught...
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A client has a new tank farm, and six (6) storage tanks are in identical service, and three (3) others are in similar service. So the question I get often is…
Since these tanks are identical in their design AND service, can we use inspection data from one (1) tank to assess the conditions of the other tanks of identical design and service?
The short and easy answer is YES, and here’s why…...
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A summary of API’s 510 Inspection Frequencies:
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When classifying your piping circuits for MI/TML/CML inspections, DON’T share the inspection/NDE frequencies with the team!!! It is amazing to watch them “reconsider” their decisions after they learn the differences in inspection frequencies between Class 1 and Class 2. The exercise is to ENSURE the integrity of our PRIMARY CONTAINMENT (process safety); not to reduce costs!
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SAFTENG NOTE: The fatal H2S event in Deer Park last year that claimed two (2) contractor lives was the result of contractors opening the WRONG flange!
Now we have a similar event that led to a fire that burned for three (3) days.
A report regarding a 2025 Refinery Fire in CA found that two (2) contractors “mistakenly loosened the bolts on a flange full of hot hydrocarbons during a routine...
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Are you shocked this led to a fire? Welding on the wall of a boxcar that is full of paper goods.
This is the exact set up OSHA warns us of…
1910.252(a)(2)(x) Noncombustible walls. If welding is to be done on a metal wall, partition, ceiling, or roof, precautions shall be taken to prevent ignition of combustibles on the other side, due to conduction or radiation, preferably by relocating...
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The Compressed Gas Association (CGA) has published P-95, Guideline for the Safe Installation and Use of Cryogenic Food Freezing and Chilling Equipment. This publication covers the installation and operation of food freezing and chilling equipment and associated supply systems, and the use of that equipment with refrigerated liquefied gases (nitrogen and carbon dioxide).
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