September 30, 2021
How to Prevent Fire Hazards Associated with Static Electricity
How to Prevent Fire Hazards Associated with Static Electricity: When combustible materials are handled, static electricity can be dangerous as the work environment then becomes at risk for fires and explosions.
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September 6, 2021
Employee Inhales Toxic Gas, Later Dies
At 6:15 a.m. on May 22, 2020, an employee and a coworker were in the process of transferring chemicals from totes on a delivery truck into tanks inside the facility. The employee was responsible for hooking up the hose to the fill line on the building and monitoring the transfer from inside the facility. The coworker was responsible for hooking up the hose to the pump and tote inside the truck. The employee accidentally hooked up the bleach hose to the fluoride fill line, causing a reaction when the chemicals mixed. A toxic gas, presumably chlorine, was given off and the employee inhaled the gas. The employee was hospitalized from t he inhalation of the toxic gas, and died from the injury.
Source:OSHA.gov
September 2, 2021
Two Employees Receive Corrosive Burns From Sanitizing
At 12:00 p.m. on April 19, 2019, Employee #1 and Employee #2 were observing a food establishment's sanitation and cleaning process during an investigation. During the observations of the employees and processes, they used a foaming cleanser, quaternary ammonium, and a spot acid clear for cleaning and sanitizing. A pun gent smell believed to be chlorine was being released into the air. Employees #1 and #2 noted that their eyes, skin, and mucosal linings of the mouth, throat, and nose were irritated and burning. Employee #2 measured the quaternary ammonium solution, and it was found to be in excess of 200 PPM, which is higher than recommended levels. Hospitalization was not required.
Source:OSHA.gov
August 28, 2021
Steam cap failure incident
At 8:12 a.m. on November 13, 2020, Employee #1 and a coworker, employed by an HV AC company, were repairing a steam piping system leak in the mechanical room of a medical care campus building. The employees did not utilize a lockout and/or tagout device. Following the repair, as the steam line was being re-energized, a threaded drip cap at the bottom of the vertical steam pipe riser apparently failed. The room immediately filled with pressurized steam. The interior door was in the closed position, and the employees were unable to exit the room. Employee #1 was killed.
Source:Osha.gov
August 24, 2021
15 Power Plant Safety Tips
15 Power Plant Safety Tips
https://www.babcock.com/resources/learning-center/15-power-plant-safety-tips
August 20, 2021
The dangers of hydrogen generation during chemical cleaning
Real Life Accident: Boiler Explosion Kills Chemical Cleaning Expert On LNG Tanker
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August 16, 2021
The employees were charging a furnace for an alloy melt. Employee #1 had just placed the final two pigs on the lip of the furnace door and had backed his lift truck at an angle to a distance of 15 feet from the furnace. Employee #3 had previously pushed seven pigs into the furnace. As he pushed the final two pigs into the furnace, there were two separate explosions inside the furnace. The first explosion caused a wave of molten metal to flow over the open furnace sill outward to a distance of 40 feet. The second explosion caused a fan shaped flame that extended out 80 feet from the furnace. The flame touched the left front of Employee #1's lift truck and completely engulfed Employee #3's lift truck (located 30 feet directly in front of the furnace). Employee #2 was standing behind Employee #1's lift truck. All three employees were burned. Employee #3 died of his injuries. Water pockets inside the pigs apparently caused the explosions.
Source: osha.gov
August 12, 2021
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August 4, 2021
Role of fired heater safety systems
Role of fired heater safety systems
A fully automated burner management system operating as a SIS for burner control can meet minimum safety targets, improve system availability and lower costs
NIKKI BISHOP and DAVID SHEPPARD
Emerson Process Management
July 30, 2021
Design Options for Overfill Protection for Aboveground Atmospheric Tanks - Best Practices
"Overfilling of a tank is an important safety hazard. It may result in
loss of tank fluid and potentially severe consequences if the fluid is
flammable or environmentally sensitive. Additionally, it is necessary
to preserve the mechanical integrity of a tank. This article first
looks briefly at various ways liquid may overfill a tank, and then
describes different design options as best practices to take care of
situations where overfilling is a possibility. The main paper will
contain diagrams and appropriate references."
July 26, 2021
DONT UNDERESTIMATE OVERFILLING RISKS
"Loss of level control has contributed to three significant industrial incidents:
In Australia, the Esso Longford explosion in September 1998 resulted in two fatalities, eight injuries, and A$1.3 billion (more than U.S. $ 1 billion) in losses [1];In the U.S., the BP Texas City explosion in March 2005 caused 15 fatalities and more than 170 injuries, profoundly affected facility production for months afterwards, and incurred losses exceeding $1.6 billion on BP [2]; andIn the U.K., the Buncefield explosion in December 2005 injured 43 people, devastated the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal, and led to total losses of as much as ₤1 billion (about $1.5 billion) [3, 4]."
Read the article at https://www.chemicalprocessing.com/articles/2010/143/
July 22, 2021
2019 Significant Process Safety Incidents
2019 Significant Process Safety Incidents: Use this summary of 2019's process safety incidents to learn and to help prevent incidents at your facility, whatever your industry. This video is a summary of significant process safety incidents during
the year 2019. The purpose of maintaining awareness and sharing process
safety incidents each year is to promote the Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS)
approach to lessons-learned and to encourage industry to maintain a
sense of vulnerability. This allows our members to be up to date on the
latest news regarding process safety as we strive to be strong, smarter,
and more effective in the ongoing effort to reduce process safety
incidents to zero.
July 18, 2021
Alarm floods and plant incidents
Most of the incident investigations performed by the US Chemical Safety
Board (CSB) cite alarm floods as being a significant contributing cause
to industrial incidents. In fact, alarm management has become identified
as one of the key issues listed on the cover of recent CSB
investigation reports. The British-based organisation Engineering
Equipment & Materials Users’ Association (EEMUA) came to the same
finding in its report from 1999 when it analysed major incidents around
the world, including Three Mile Island, Bhopal and Texaco Milford Haven.1 Therefore,
the connection of alarm floods to incidents has been well documented
for over 12 years. On the whole, industrial progress controlling floods
in those 12 years has been nil. Many corporations and plant locations
are attempting to do so, but many engineers, including alarm management
vendors, do not know what it takes to control floods under all operating
conditions. This article shows examples of good alarm management
programmes and how they successfully control alarm floods under all
operating conditions.
Read the article at Alarm floods and plant incidents
July 14, 2021
SIL and functional safety in rotating equipment
SIL (safety integrity level) is a very important safety indicator that has been extensively discussed, described and often misunderstood within the industry over the past years. The purpose of this article is to provide operators, reliability engineers, instrumentation engineers and department managers with a practical overview of the areas where SIL and functional safety are important in their daily business life. Note that, in the light of the International Electro-technical Commission (IEC) and most other safety relevant standards, risk is strictly defined as “harm to health safety environment” (HSE).
Read more at SIL and functional safety in rotating equipment
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