NOTICE:  I am in NO WAY affiliated with, nor do I do any business with, or have any contact with anyone at Cordex.  This is NOT an advertisement for Cordex – I just had a chance to play with one of these this weekend and was very impressed with it.  For years, we wished we had a camera for HAZLOCs instead of getting a Hotwork Permit and walking around with an LEL detector.  Well...

Many THANKS to Barry Weissman for sharing this with his YAHOO Safety Group!  This could be HUGE, bigger than the revised HAZCOM standard.  Following its May 3 meeting, the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health (FACOSH) recommended that the Department of Labor consider asking the president to update OSHA’s permissible exposure limits (PELs) by executive order....

Noise induced hearing loss is irreversible damage to the ears caused by exposure to high levels of noise. These recordings demonstrate how hearing is gradually lost over a working life. In the demonstrations you will hear the effects of both noise exposure and ageing on hearing. The demonstrations rely on comparing how loud the different sections of the recordings sound to you, so it is important do...

In the month of May (2012) three NH3 Refrigeration facilities have received substantial fines relating to their NH3 refrigeration process.  A large food distribution business/cold storage warehouse agreed to pay a penalty of $126,700and a cheese processing facility agreed to pay a penalty of $42,435 to settle claims by that they violated the Clean Air Act by not reporting releases of Anhydrous...

There is not a PHA that goes by where someone ask me “why are we discussing power outages, when we have no control over them”?  It is quite simple, we need to analyze what could/would happen if we loose power!  Yes, loosing the power may be out of our hands somewhat, but what happens when we loose it will be 100% our responsibility.  Case in hand… … HomeRead...

On Wednesday April 25th 2012, the Infrastructure Security Compliance Division (ISCD) reached a milestone as it completed its 1000th Compliance Assistance Visit (CAV). CAVs support the regulated community by helping chemical facilities to understand and meet the requirements under the Chemical Facility Anti-terrorism Standards (CFATS) based on their own unique circumstances. … HomeRead More...

Z49.1:2012 Safety in Welding, Cutting, and Allied Processes An American National Standard. Download your free copy today! DOWNLOAD (PLEASE NOTE this is an external link and that you have to register w/ AWS to begin the FREE download)

 

On July 13, 1973, in Potchefstroom, South Africa there was an anhydrous ammonia accident involving a catastrophic failure of a pressurized ammonia storage tank that instantaneously released 38 tons of anhydrous ammonia into the atmosphere. Eighteen people died and an unknown number were injured. A visible cloud extended about 1,000 feet wide and about 1,400 feet downwind; all deaths occurred within...

FREE DOWNLOAD of ANSI Z49.1:2012 Safety in Welding, Cutting, and Allied Processes In my world of Process Safety I often hear OSHA being blamed for not being specific enough and if the OSHA standards were more specific… “these horrible accidents would be fewer”.  I wholeheartedly disagree with this line of thought.  Case in hand… in my incident alerts this year there have been numerous...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. … HomeRead More »