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The American Industrial Hygiene Association® (AIHA) is proud to announce the American National Standards Institute’s (ANSI) recent approval of the revised ANSI/AIHA Z10 standard. The ANSI/AIHA Z10-2012 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems standard is comprised of management principles and systems to help organizations design and implement deliberate and documented approaches...
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It was established in previous HSE research that safety hoops on fixed access ladders (alternatively rendered as caged ladders) could not provide positive fall-arrest capability. The working at height industry has anticipated this finding, which has led to the ‘upgrading’ of caged ladders by installing fall-arresting systems (FAS) inside the cage. The rationale is that a FAS can make good...
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Date: July 03, 2012Model(s) Affected: GS-3232Serial Numbers Affected: GS3211A-110000 to GS3211A-110006; GS3212A-110007 to GS3212A-111473Subject: Machine StabilityAllowable Hours: 30 minutes
Issue:Genie has determined that the control system utilized on the above referenced machines can malfunction. This malfunction allows the operator to lift and drive the machine with the platform raised...
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Earlier this year, I wrote an article titled “What type of respirator do I need?” in which I explained how respirator users and administrators can use data to determine the proper type of respiratory protection that would be needed. But this article was written under the assumption that the user/administrator had the most essential piece of data… the level of the contaminant....
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The alert comes after investigations and additional research found SCBA facepiece lenses may undergo thermal degradation when exposed to intense heat.
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PRODUCT RECALL / STOP USE NOTICE3M™ Series Self Retracting LanyardsAFFECTED MODELS IDENTIFIED ON PAGE 2Manufacture Date Range on Products November 01, 2011 to June 25, 2012
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This article is meant to provide some guidance to mechanical refrigeration operators (e.g. ammonia refrigeration processes) as to when a “pressure test” is required and when a “leak test” is required and what are the specifics that have to be met in order to comply. Not having performed a “pressure test” on field erected piping BEFORE the introduction of anhydrous...
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OSHA has cited a chemical plant with 12 serious, one repeat and one other-than-serious violations for exposing workers to multiple safety hazards while producing organic chemicals. OSHA’s Houston North Area Office initiated an inspection of the plant in January after receiving an employee complaint, and later expanded the inspection under the agency’s process safety management national...
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The video discusses the four main components of inherently safer design as identified by the NAS study. They are substitute, minimize, moderate and simplify and are described as: 1) Substitute: replacing one material with another that is less hazardous; 2) Minimize: reducing the amount of hazardous material in the process; 3) Moderate: using less hazardous process conditions such as...
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Earlier this year, the US EPA cited a company for not having trained staff on-site at all times the Extremely Hazardous Substance (EHS) or Highly Hazardous Chemical (HHC) is on-site in quantities that exceed the Risk Management Plan threshold. The case (Click Here for my summary of the case) involved an ammonia distributor. The only time trained personnel were on site was when a truck was...
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There are only two (2) different types of HUMAN FAILURES:
ERRORS (Inadvertent)
NON-COMPLIANCE (VIOLATIONS) (Deliberate)
A HUMAN ERROR is an action or decision that was not intended, involved a deviation from an accepted standard, and led to an undesirable outcome.
A NON-COMPLIANCE (VIOLATION) is a deliberate deviation from a rule or procedure.
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