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Has your facility ever had a leaking flange? Just a tiny drip of liquid or a small release of gas?
What is the most common response to this leaky flange? Someone goes out and tightens the flange bolts to stop the leak.
This practice is done in the process industry hundreds of times a month in large facilities, and in many situations,...
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Under the Clean Air Act, Section 112(r), the EPA established a program requiring facilities possessing greater than certain threshold quantities of 140 chemicals to provide risk management plans to the EPA.1 As part of this reporting requirement, facilities are required to determine the worst-case scenario release from a single chemical process, using EPA criteria and guidelines.2 Facilities...
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RMPs MUST be updated at least once EVERY five (5) years. Owners and operators responsible for RMP implementation should review the factsheet A Checklist for Submitting your Risk Management Plan (pdf). This factsheet provides a checklist to consider in updating and resubmitting RMPs.
Use EPA’s RMP*eSubmit for your resubmissions. For additional information see the RMP*eSubmit Users’...
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It cannot be assumed that workers will naturally begin to report problems, errors, and near misses once a just environment is in place. There are a number of organizational as well as psychological barriers that must be hurdled before a reporting culture can be put in place. The first barrier to overcome is
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In older facilities, we see illumination for an exit sign coming from an external source. Section 1013.6 of the IBC regulates the graphics, illumination, and emergency power supply for such signs.
Although no particular color is specified for exit signs, it is REQUIRED that the color and design of the signs, the lettering, the arrows, and other symbols on the sign provide good contrast to increase...
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Dr. Sidney Dekker (Ph.D. in Cognitive Systems Engineering) states there are basically two (2) ways of looking at human error. In this article, I share with you, the first view, which could be called “the bad apple theory“. It maintains that:
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Three (3) ingredients are vital for driving the safety engine, all of them the province of top management or what the organizational theorist, Mintzberg, has termed the strategic apex of the system. These driving forces are:
commitment,
competence and
cognizance
Reason’s three C’s.
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Verifying that grounding and bonding systems meet a specific resistance threshold—such as the common 10 ohms target for flammable liquid processes—requires a systematic approach to ensure both accuracy and technician safety. The following procedure outlines the steps for performing a static ground-resistance test using a dedicated ground-resistance tester (Ohmmeter). This procedure applies to the...
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Take any of the following steps below that may be necessary to guard against stored energy(s) left in the equipment after it has been shut down and isolated from its energy source(s).
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An older post, with updates…Ever since the 2005 BP Texas City tragedy, refineries and chemical plants have been working diligently to review “facility siting” risks for their facilities. As with all of the PSM elements, many of us took this new focus as a learning opportunity. We had all done something we called “facility siting” in our Process Hazards Analysis, but in the early 1990’s...
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The 2008 revisions to the LOTO Compliance Directive (CPL 02-00-147) did a great service in advancing a 30+ year-old standard in an area that badly needed clarification: Periodic Inspections under 1910.147(c)(6). I am sure there will be folks who will dissect this, looking for every “out” they can find to not do these safety-critical audits, but it’s hard to argue this section of...
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Key Principles in integrating Human Factors in Hazard Identification, Hazard Analysis, and Risk Assessments include:
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