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The US Department of Transportation (DOT) and Transport Canada (TC) publish the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG), which provides valuable information to first responders during the initial phase of a dangerous goods/hazardous materials transportation incident. A new edition of this guidebook is published every four years, the most recent edition being published in 2012. There are some changes to...
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Federal officials have charged a Georgia transportation company in a 2009 ammonia leak that killed a South Carolina woman. According to court documents, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against the transportation company for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act. The wrong type of hose was used as 7,000 pounds of anyhydrous ammonia were being transferred to a transport truck...
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Many safety and process safety professional think incidents like this are “rare”. They would be wrong, unless of course their definition of “rare” is a bit looser than mine! I do not have official numbers of the frequency of this type of incident but I am trying to obtain them and will certainly pass them along when, and if, I ever get them. But using my Incident...
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ACGIH® announced today that its Board of Directorsratified the 2013 Threshold Limit Values (TLVs®) for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents and Biological Exposure Indices (BEIs®). The Board also approved recommendations for additions to the Notice of Intended Changes (NIC).
A listing of the substances that were acted upon is attached. The Annual Reports of the...
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Based on the results of the NIOSH quantitative risk assessment [Park et al. 2004], NIOSH recommends that airborne exposure to all Cr(VI) compounds be limited to a concentration of 0.2 µg Cr(VI)/m3 for an 8-hr TWA exposure, during a 40-hr workweek. The REL is intended to reduce workers’ risk of lung cancer associated with occupational exposure to Cr(VI) compounds over a 45-year working lifetime....
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On April 24, 2012, an employee of a brewery was fatally injured when a plastic keg he was cleaning with pressurized air exploded. In the aftermath of the accident, investigators from OSHA visited the facility to document the circumstances. They recently released the following photographs:
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Where atmospheric, aboveground flammable and combustible liquid storage tanks rely solely on pressure-relieving devices for emergency venting, the vent capacity is based on the tank’s wetted area. (See Coffee Break Training FP-2013-4 for an explanation of wetted area.) The combined air flow capacity of the normal and emergency vents is measured in cubic feet per hour (m3/hour) of free flowing...
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An excellent look at fire safety in nightclubs from a REAL FIRE SAFETY PRO, Ray O’Brocki of Baltimore FD! He makes a lot of sense… COMPLIANCE with existing fire codes is KEY!
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http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/January/13-enrd-107.html
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2013 Fatality Tracker
Electrical
3
(2012 = 68)
(2011 = 81)
(2010 = 90)
(2009 = 100)
Forklift/Manlift
8
(2012 = 52)
(2011 = 84)
(2010 = 110)
(2009 = 88)
Mining*
16
(2012 = 92*)
(2011 = 248)
(2010 = 480)
(2009...
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