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I am proud to announce that SAFTENG and The Chlorine Institute have renewed our partnership for another year (through 2026). Members of The Chlorine Institute receive a FREE SAFTENG membership. If you qualify, please contact me
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SAFTENG has:
- Over 19,000 categorized unsafe acts/conditions and accident/injury photos
- Over 1,500 ppt's & doc's in the SAFTENG Library
- Over 5,000 Technical Articles on Process Safety, Emergency Response & OSH topics
- Over 450 videos (those not allowed on YouTube Channel)
Many THANKS to my NEW Members and those who CONTINUE to support SAFTENG:
In the chemical industry, we had things a bit easier when it came to defining our process battery limits and this made it easy for us to define who was a PSM/RMP contractor. But things are not so easy in facilities where the PSM process is a small and not core to the business. We see this in flammable liquid processes and ammonia refrigeration processes, where the Highly Hazardous Chemical...
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MANY THANKS to my NEW & RENEWING “Partners in Safety”for their support!
Polyone since 7/11, S-Con, Inc since 7/11, Michels Corporation since 7/11, Fluor-B&W Portsmouth since 6/2011, and Suzlon since 2009
2011 Fatality Tracker
Electrical
46
(2010 = 90)
(2009 = 100)
Forklift/Manlift
Mobile Equipment
56
(2010 = 110)
(2009=88)
Mining
145
(2010...
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The following factors are critical to any SMS’s sucess. The SMS:• must be comprehensive and integrated with respect to the adopted control measures• must be implemented in practice and used as the primary means of ensuring safe operation• should be consistent with the understanding of risk gained from the Safety Assessment• should have sufficient focus on major incident safety, from planning...
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My line of work brings me into contact with a lot of hazardous locations. Some weeks I feel I should just sleep in my FR coveralls! But each month we find errors in hazardous location classifications that could have disastrous results. This article is an attempt to bring to light some of the common errors we have come across:
1) Be able to state what Recognized and Generally Accepted...
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MANY THANKS to my NEW & RENEWING “Partners in Safety”for their support!
Polyone since 7/11, S-Con, Inc since 7/11, Michels Corporation since 7/11, Fluor-B&W Portsmouth since 6/2011, and Suzlon since 2009
2011 Fatality Tracker
Electrical
45
(2010 = 90)
(2009 = 100)
Forklift/Manlift
Mobile Equipment
55
(2010...
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A large metropolitan zoo maintenance employee may have disabled a warning light on a small train that derailed in 2009, sending 22 people to the hospital. The records are part of the evidence to be used in a February 2012 trial in which plaintiffs claim the zoo was negligent in its maintenance and operation of the train. According to records, a maintenance worker saw a co-worker remove...
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Incident prevention represents the hallmark of our safety program. It is the primary reason why we emphasize adequate job planning, risk assessment, awareness and supervision. While we intend to become adept and masters of prevention, there are times when we may need to risk response to an incident situation and over response effectiveness may be such, that we create further problems if we are not...
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Why do some companies succeed in safety and other’s do not?
Is it due to the high tech brand new equipment they bought?
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A Community Fire and Burn Prevention Program
Supported by the United States Fire Administration Federal Emergency Management Agency
General Background Information
Selected gasoline-related injury statistics
Technical Background
Fact Sheets for Community Distribution
Portable gasoline containers
Portable container and vehicle filling procedures
Small engines and gasoline powered equipment
Static...
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Partner Organizations
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