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Following the West Fertilizer catastrophic explosion in West, Texas a need arises in untangling the confusion between fertilizer plants and businesses primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of farm supplies, such as: animal feeds, fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, pesticides, plant seeds and plant bulbs. Thank you. Support your Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC).
Dated 2/2/2009 - Overview for the kinds of industries where Combustible Dust Hazards are an issue. Also, recommendations for prevention and mitigation along with how to test to see if a specific manufacturing facility has a problem with either their raw ingredients, byproducts/scrap, and/or finished goods.
Also available going to following url:
http://sache.org/links.asp
Albert V. Condello III
Univ of Houston Downtown
This document discusses the forensic investigation of explosions. It covers the basics of low and high explosives, including black powder, smokeless powder, dynamite, and TATP. It describes collecting evidence from the entire bomb site and crater, looking for detonation mechanisms. Samples are analyzed using techniques like spot tests, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, infrared spectrophotometry, and x-ray diffraction to identify explosive residues. X-ray diffraction analyzes crystalline compound diffraction patterns to "fingerprint" explosives. Taggants were proposed to be added to explosives to help identify the source.
The document discusses combustible dust explosions, providing background on incidents since 1995, types of dusts and industries involved, and recommendations to prevent future explosions. It defines combustible dust and outlines hazard mitigation techniques, emphasizing controlling ignition sources and proper ventilation to prevent the buildup and dispersion of dust.
August 2015 ComplianceSigns Connection Workplace Safety NewsletterComplianceSigns, LLC
Top Safety News for August 2015, including:
• OSHA delays Confined Spaces in Construction enforcement to October
• Guidance issued on Hazcom enforcement
• OSHA Fines total $2.9 million in July
• NIOSH offers easy, effective way to reduce silica dust exposure
• Safety Tip: Reduce arc flash hazards
Dust Collection: Governmental Rules, Standards and RegulationsSteve Ragan
Ensuring dust collection equipment is designed and maintained in proper operating condition is essential to complying with key regulations. Learn more about these regulations.
In September 2015, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) issued NFPA 652, Standard on the Fundamentals of Combustible Dust. This new standard ties together myriad industry-specific codes and standards related to combustible dusts, including NFPA 61 and 654, under one overarching standard that establishes minimum requirements for managing dust hazards across all industries. Most importantly, this standard is retroactive, meaning that all facilities that handle combustible dusts must meet these new criteria by the deadline of September 2018. What are the specific requirements of this standard and how can you ensure compliance quickly and with minimal cost or disruption? This presentation will explain the testing and documentation requirements and discuss the newly-required Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA) in order to prepare your facility for compliance with NFPA 652.
Following the West Fertilizer catastrophic explosion in West, Texas a need arises in untangling the confusion between fertilizer plants and businesses primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of farm supplies, such as: animal feeds, fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, pesticides, plant seeds and plant bulbs. Thank you. Support your Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC).
Dated 2/2/2009 - Overview for the kinds of industries where Combustible Dust Hazards are an issue. Also, recommendations for prevention and mitigation along with how to test to see if a specific manufacturing facility has a problem with either their raw ingredients, byproducts/scrap, and/or finished goods.
Also available going to following url:
http://sache.org/links.asp
Albert V. Condello III
Univ of Houston Downtown
This document discusses the forensic investigation of explosions. It covers the basics of low and high explosives, including black powder, smokeless powder, dynamite, and TATP. It describes collecting evidence from the entire bomb site and crater, looking for detonation mechanisms. Samples are analyzed using techniques like spot tests, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, infrared spectrophotometry, and x-ray diffraction to identify explosive residues. X-ray diffraction analyzes crystalline compound diffraction patterns to "fingerprint" explosives. Taggants were proposed to be added to explosives to help identify the source.
The document discusses combustible dust explosions, providing background on incidents since 1995, types of dusts and industries involved, and recommendations to prevent future explosions. It defines combustible dust and outlines hazard mitigation techniques, emphasizing controlling ignition sources and proper ventilation to prevent the buildup and dispersion of dust.
August 2015 ComplianceSigns Connection Workplace Safety NewsletterComplianceSigns, LLC
Top Safety News for August 2015, including:
• OSHA delays Confined Spaces in Construction enforcement to October
• Guidance issued on Hazcom enforcement
• OSHA Fines total $2.9 million in July
• NIOSH offers easy, effective way to reduce silica dust exposure
• Safety Tip: Reduce arc flash hazards
Dust Collection: Governmental Rules, Standards and RegulationsSteve Ragan
Ensuring dust collection equipment is designed and maintained in proper operating condition is essential to complying with key regulations. Learn more about these regulations.
In September 2015, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) issued NFPA 652, Standard on the Fundamentals of Combustible Dust. This new standard ties together myriad industry-specific codes and standards related to combustible dusts, including NFPA 61 and 654, under one overarching standard that establishes minimum requirements for managing dust hazards across all industries. Most importantly, this standard is retroactive, meaning that all facilities that handle combustible dusts must meet these new criteria by the deadline of September 2018. What are the specific requirements of this standard and how can you ensure compliance quickly and with minimal cost or disruption? This presentation will explain the testing and documentation requirements and discuss the newly-required Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA) in order to prepare your facility for compliance with NFPA 652.
02 - House E&C Subcommmittee Testimony-Mike FreemanChelsea Ritchie
Michael Freeman, president of WD-40 Company, testified before two congressional subcommittees regarding EPA's proposed lowering of national ozone standards. He expressed concerns that further lowering the standard could (1) harm WD-40 products by requiring reformulations that impact effectiveness and usability; (2) lead to overlapping state regulations that create compliance challenges; and (3) negatively impact the aerosol industry through high costs of compliance. Freeman recommended keeping the current ozone standard until states implement existing regulations and more data is available on their impacts.
This document discusses the issue of combustible dust explosions. It begins with an overview of what combustible dust is, noting that dust less than 500 microns can pose an explosion risk. It then outlines the regulatory bodies that address combustible dust, including OSHA, NFPA and insurance companies. The document notes a long history of dust explosions and that the risk can exist in many industrial facilities. It emphasizes that combustible dust explosions remain a serious problem despite regulatory efforts.
Sample Global Adhesives and Sealants Market - Mordor intelligenceRohith Sampathi
The global adhesives and sealants market was valued at $40 billion in 2015 and is projected to reach $53.7 billion by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 6.05% for adhesives and 6.09% for sealants. Key end-use industries driving demand include building and construction, packaging, and transportation. Water-borne adhesives accounted for over 40% of the adhesives market in 2015. Stringent environmental regulations around VOC emissions present a restraint. The market is moving towards more environmentally friendly and bio-based adhesive technologies like Dow Chemical's RENUVA renewable resource technology.
This document provides information about a training presentation on combustible dust hazards. It was produced with funding from the Susan Harwood Training Grant through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The presentation aims to define combustible dust, discuss historical dust explosions, identify at-risk industries, perform a risk analysis of dust hazards, and describe principal control methods including prevention and mitigation. It will cover topics such as definitions, risks, facility evaluation, applicable standards, and proposed OSHA regulations on combustible dust.
Combustible Dust Cleaning A Professional ApproachJon Barrett
Combustible Dust, (or Explosive Dust), cleaning, is a required preventative good housekeeping and maintenance program, in manufacturing and production facilities. This minimizes safety hazards, potential flash fires, and catastrophic dust explosions, in addition to maintaining Indoor Air Quality. Combustible dust is fine particulate dust, which is generated from products such as wood, metals, grains, agricultural, chemicals, plastics, paper, and carbonaceous products. The manufacturing and production facilities equipment and machinery, pulverize, mill, grind, crush, macerate, and cut the bulk product. In return, dust is generated, and accumulates on all equipment and facility structure surfaces. The fine powder dust, which is suspended on the higher, inaccessible and unnoticeable surfaces, is the most problematic. Yet the most hazardous, especially when a primary upset or explosion generates a sonic pressure wave that suspends these particles into the path of a flame front (reaction front), which causes a devastating secondary dust explosion.
In addition to the fire and explosion hazards of dust, the industrial hygiene aspect of fine particles can impact and affect, the facility workers health, leading to illnesses, and injuries. "The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 6.1 percent of private-sector employees suffered 5.7 million workplace injuries and illnesses in 2000. Forty-six percent of those injury cases required days away from work for recuperation or restricted work activity.
J. Paul Leigh of the Stanford Medical Center notes that businesses spend $170.9 billion a year on costs associated with occupational injuries and illnesses—expenditures that come straight out of company profits. Injuries and illnesses increase workers’ compensation and retraining costs, absenteeism, and production faults. They also decrease productivity, morale, and ultimately, profits.
Fortunately, statistics from injury and illness reports filed with OSHA show that workplaces that establish safety and health management systems reduce their injury and illness costs by 20 to 40 percent. "In today’s competitive business environment," says OSHA Administrator John L. Henshaw, "the black-and-blue of workplace injuries can be the difference between operating in the black and running in the red." Reference 1 (http://www.osha.gov/Publications/JSHQ/fall2002html/safety_health.htm)
High ceiling and surface cleaning, Air Conveyance Cleaning, Dust collector cleaning, Conveyor Belt cleaning, Silo tank cleaning, Lab Fume Hood cleaning, and dust control vacuuming, are some of the services, that may be required to clean the combustible dust. These services help prevent airborne dust and particulates, from accumulating, in the manufacturing and production facilities. These services may also help promote equipment longevity, may decrease utility costs for operating equipment, may increase the brightness of lighting, may stabilize insurance rates, and may allow a greater Return On Investment on manufacturing equipment.
Combustible Dust cleaning should be performed by a certified and trained cleaning company. The certified training should be similar to the N.A.D.C.A., I.A.Q.A., O.S.H.A., and I.I.C.R.C. cleaning standards. Additionally, the certified cleaning contractor, should have the proper Industrial and Commercial cleaning equipment. Most importantly is an industrial, explosion-proof, dust collecting H.E.P.A. vacuum, as the main piece of equipment. Broom sweeping and compressed air, is not a viable means of cleaning combustible dust, by the NFPA 654 Combustible Dust Standard. The act of broom sweeping, and compressed air, actually stirs up dust and particulate into the air, which may create more issues with sensitive equipment that provide ignition sources, and possible dust explosions. High reach equipment, such as High reach platforms,
Scissor Lifts, Articulate Booms, Scaffolding, Fiberglas extension ladders, and Fi
In this presentation for AIChE, Timothy Myers provides the background on dust explosions, the elements required to cause them, and the types of materials that can fuel them. He reviews regulations, consensus standards, enforcement issues, and solutions for prevention.
This document provides a snapshot of issues related to Process Safety Management (PSM), the Voluntary Protection Program (VPP), and OSHA in June 2010. It discusses leadership changes at OSHA, enforcement of PSM standards, state plan inspections, VPP participation, contractor responsibilities, and significant enforcement cases and willful citations issued. Key areas of focus for OSHA include PSM inspections, the oil refining industry's commitment to safety, and emphasizing standards around process hazards, emergency response, and management of change procedures.
Top Safety News for January, 2020
- OSHA updates recommended safety practices
- Top 10 disabling workplace injuries
- What OSHA is planning for 2020
- OSHA fines in 4th quarter top $8 million
- What's new at ComplianceSigns: NFPA-10 labels, confined space signs, playground warnings and more
This document discusses combustible dust safety. It begins with a brief history of dust explosions, noting the first recorded incident in 1785 and 281 incidents in the US from 1980-2005 resulting in 119 deaths and 718 injuries. It then provides examples of combustible dust accidents in various industries that resulted in fatalities and injuries. The document discusses NFPA standards related to combustible dust hazards and provides data on combustible dust incidents in the US by industry and material type. It also lists potential ignition sources and describes OSHA's National Emphasis Program focused on combustible dust.
The document outlines seven steps that companies can take to improve safety from combustible dust explosions:
1. Acknowledge if combustible dust is present and prevent accumulation, even without testing. Dust explosions require fuel, oxygen, an ignition source, dispersion, and confinement.
2. Understand regulations from OSHA and NFPA that apply to specific industries, such as NFPA 61 for agriculture and food processing.
3. Conduct a risk assessment to understand ignition sensitivities, potential explosion severities, and environmental stability.
4. Create a combustible dust safety checklist covering inspection and maintenance of filtration, cleaning, and engineered prevention solutions.
5. Provide training to employees on hazards and safety procedures
This document discusses combustible wood dust safety. It provides background on the history of dust explosions, noting the first recorded explosion in 1785. It then discusses examples of combustible dust accidents in various industries that have resulted in deaths and injuries. The document outlines National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards related to combustible dust, including standards on dust collectors, ventilation, and hazard classification. It also discusses the objectives of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program inspections, including example questions inspectors may ask. Finally, it provides guidance on assessing dust hazards and implementing mitigation strategies like housekeeping, controlling ignition sources, ventilation, venting, suppression, and isolation
The document is a newsletter from Green Circle Inc. that provides various environmental, health and safety updates. It includes:
1. News items on pollution control board initiatives in India, decreased time for environmental clearances, record low Arctic sea ice levels, and India signing the Paris Agreement.
2. Tips on effective fire protection systems including complying with fire codes, using distributed network systems, and improving evacuation routes.
3. A case study on a company that underwent modernization and a cleaner production assessment, investing 5.5 lakh and saving 11.5 lakh annually.
This presentation discusses facility surface dust contamination from lead soldering operations. While airborne exposures may be below limits, lead dust can deposit on surfaces throughout buildings at levels orders of magnitude higher than standards. This can create liability risks during property transfers and health risks for maintenance workers and sensitive groups. Sampling data from four facilities show widespread contamination on surfaces far from soldering areas, even over a decade after operations. Cleanup is possible but contamination may remain above guidelines after initial cleaning. Courts have found companies liable for lead contamination left on purchased properties.
Pollution being an endangerment to the living beings present all over the globe which impinges people's lives everyday. Major life threatening illnesses have been reported worldwide due to chronic exposure to pollution.WHO reports 6.5million premature deaths every year due to pollution which is a major threat to the human existence.This presentation discusses about the different types of pollution, its health effects, the steps being taken to control pollution in India and the ways to control the pollution. I hope this helps atleast a bit to make the world a better place for us to live!!
1) OSHA issued over $9 million in fines in the third quarter of 2019, with individual fines ranging from $104,637 to $897,000. Total fines issued by OSHA in 2019 have surpassed $24 million so far.
2) NFPA has released a new white paper providing guidance on how organizations can meet emergency preparedness requirements set by CMS using NFPA 1300 standards.
3) ComplianceSigns has added new Prop 65 chemical hazard signs and grow house UV warning signs to its product line. The article also provides an overview of the company's products and services.
Conflict Mineral Compliance Toolkit For Executives Matt Whitteker
Assent Compliance was the only software vendor that the SEC consulted with when passing the Conflict Minerals legislation. Assent has been on the ground floor and has been able to work with over 20% of S&P 500 companies in scope of the law. We've compiled this Ebook to assist with companies that need to comply. This is a play book with everything you need to know. If you want more information visit http://www.assentcompliance.com or email info@assentcompliance.com
Top Safety News for September, 2020:
- National Farm Safety & Health Week
- Selecting a Respirator for Construction Dust
- OSHA Issues COVID-related Fines
- Free COVID-19 Safety Guides for Schools
- What's new at ComplianceSigns: Safety scoreboards, custom coronavirus floor labels
This document summarizes federal environmental regulations that may affect the commercial printing industry, specifically regarding air requirements under the Clean Air Act. It discusses the EPA's National Ambient Air Quality Standards and how nonattainment areas are classified. Printing facilities are considered sources of volatile organic compound emissions, which are precursors to ozone. The document outlines requirements for existing major sources in nonattainment areas to implement Reasonably Available Control Technology. It also discusses new source review permitting requirements for new or modified major sources of air pollution.
This document provides information about the Combustible Dust Training Program (C-DuST) grant from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The grant was awarded to Kirkwood Community College to develop a training program to improve worker safety around combustible dust hazards. The training program covers the conditions needed for a dust explosion, types of combustible dusts, case studies of dust explosions, and methods to prevent dust explosions through practices like housekeeping, dust control systems, and fire prevention. The goal is to help workers recognize combustible dust hazards and address them in their workplaces.
KuberTENes Birthday Bash Guadalajara - K8sGPT first impressionsVictor Morales
K8sGPT is a tool that analyzes and diagnoses Kubernetes clusters. This presentation was used to share the requirements and dependencies to deploy K8sGPT in a local environment.
A review on techniques and modelling methodologies used for checking electrom...nooriasukmaningtyas
The proper function of the integrated circuit (IC) in an inhibiting electromagnetic environment has always been a serious concern throughout the decades of revolution in the world of electronics, from disjunct devices to today’s integrated circuit technology, where billions of transistors are combined on a single chip. The automotive industry and smart vehicles in particular, are confronting design issues such as being prone to electromagnetic interference (EMI). Electronic control devices calculate incorrect outputs because of EMI and sensors give misleading values which can prove fatal in case of automotives. In this paper, the authors have non exhaustively tried to review research work concerned with the investigation of EMI in ICs and prediction of this EMI using various modelling methodologies and measurement setups.
02 - House E&C Subcommmittee Testimony-Mike FreemanChelsea Ritchie
Michael Freeman, president of WD-40 Company, testified before two congressional subcommittees regarding EPA's proposed lowering of national ozone standards. He expressed concerns that further lowering the standard could (1) harm WD-40 products by requiring reformulations that impact effectiveness and usability; (2) lead to overlapping state regulations that create compliance challenges; and (3) negatively impact the aerosol industry through high costs of compliance. Freeman recommended keeping the current ozone standard until states implement existing regulations and more data is available on their impacts.
This document discusses the issue of combustible dust explosions. It begins with an overview of what combustible dust is, noting that dust less than 500 microns can pose an explosion risk. It then outlines the regulatory bodies that address combustible dust, including OSHA, NFPA and insurance companies. The document notes a long history of dust explosions and that the risk can exist in many industrial facilities. It emphasizes that combustible dust explosions remain a serious problem despite regulatory efforts.
Sample Global Adhesives and Sealants Market - Mordor intelligenceRohith Sampathi
The global adhesives and sealants market was valued at $40 billion in 2015 and is projected to reach $53.7 billion by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 6.05% for adhesives and 6.09% for sealants. Key end-use industries driving demand include building and construction, packaging, and transportation. Water-borne adhesives accounted for over 40% of the adhesives market in 2015. Stringent environmental regulations around VOC emissions present a restraint. The market is moving towards more environmentally friendly and bio-based adhesive technologies like Dow Chemical's RENUVA renewable resource technology.
This document provides information about a training presentation on combustible dust hazards. It was produced with funding from the Susan Harwood Training Grant through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The presentation aims to define combustible dust, discuss historical dust explosions, identify at-risk industries, perform a risk analysis of dust hazards, and describe principal control methods including prevention and mitigation. It will cover topics such as definitions, risks, facility evaluation, applicable standards, and proposed OSHA regulations on combustible dust.
Combustible Dust Cleaning A Professional ApproachJon Barrett
Combustible Dust, (or Explosive Dust), cleaning, is a required preventative good housekeeping and maintenance program, in manufacturing and production facilities. This minimizes safety hazards, potential flash fires, and catastrophic dust explosions, in addition to maintaining Indoor Air Quality. Combustible dust is fine particulate dust, which is generated from products such as wood, metals, grains, agricultural, chemicals, plastics, paper, and carbonaceous products. The manufacturing and production facilities equipment and machinery, pulverize, mill, grind, crush, macerate, and cut the bulk product. In return, dust is generated, and accumulates on all equipment and facility structure surfaces. The fine powder dust, which is suspended on the higher, inaccessible and unnoticeable surfaces, is the most problematic. Yet the most hazardous, especially when a primary upset or explosion generates a sonic pressure wave that suspends these particles into the path of a flame front (reaction front), which causes a devastating secondary dust explosion.
In addition to the fire and explosion hazards of dust, the industrial hygiene aspect of fine particles can impact and affect, the facility workers health, leading to illnesses, and injuries. "The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 6.1 percent of private-sector employees suffered 5.7 million workplace injuries and illnesses in 2000. Forty-six percent of those injury cases required days away from work for recuperation or restricted work activity.
J. Paul Leigh of the Stanford Medical Center notes that businesses spend $170.9 billion a year on costs associated with occupational injuries and illnesses—expenditures that come straight out of company profits. Injuries and illnesses increase workers’ compensation and retraining costs, absenteeism, and production faults. They also decrease productivity, morale, and ultimately, profits.
Fortunately, statistics from injury and illness reports filed with OSHA show that workplaces that establish safety and health management systems reduce their injury and illness costs by 20 to 40 percent. "In today’s competitive business environment," says OSHA Administrator John L. Henshaw, "the black-and-blue of workplace injuries can be the difference between operating in the black and running in the red." Reference 1 (http://www.osha.gov/Publications/JSHQ/fall2002html/safety_health.htm)
High ceiling and surface cleaning, Air Conveyance Cleaning, Dust collector cleaning, Conveyor Belt cleaning, Silo tank cleaning, Lab Fume Hood cleaning, and dust control vacuuming, are some of the services, that may be required to clean the combustible dust. These services help prevent airborne dust and particulates, from accumulating, in the manufacturing and production facilities. These services may also help promote equipment longevity, may decrease utility costs for operating equipment, may increase the brightness of lighting, may stabilize insurance rates, and may allow a greater Return On Investment on manufacturing equipment.
Combustible Dust cleaning should be performed by a certified and trained cleaning company. The certified training should be similar to the N.A.D.C.A., I.A.Q.A., O.S.H.A., and I.I.C.R.C. cleaning standards. Additionally, the certified cleaning contractor, should have the proper Industrial and Commercial cleaning equipment. Most importantly is an industrial, explosion-proof, dust collecting H.E.P.A. vacuum, as the main piece of equipment. Broom sweeping and compressed air, is not a viable means of cleaning combustible dust, by the NFPA 654 Combustible Dust Standard. The act of broom sweeping, and compressed air, actually stirs up dust and particulate into the air, which may create more issues with sensitive equipment that provide ignition sources, and possible dust explosions. High reach equipment, such as High reach platforms,
Scissor Lifts, Articulate Booms, Scaffolding, Fiberglas extension ladders, and Fi
In this presentation for AIChE, Timothy Myers provides the background on dust explosions, the elements required to cause them, and the types of materials that can fuel them. He reviews regulations, consensus standards, enforcement issues, and solutions for prevention.
This document provides a snapshot of issues related to Process Safety Management (PSM), the Voluntary Protection Program (VPP), and OSHA in June 2010. It discusses leadership changes at OSHA, enforcement of PSM standards, state plan inspections, VPP participation, contractor responsibilities, and significant enforcement cases and willful citations issued. Key areas of focus for OSHA include PSM inspections, the oil refining industry's commitment to safety, and emphasizing standards around process hazards, emergency response, and management of change procedures.
Top Safety News for January, 2020
- OSHA updates recommended safety practices
- Top 10 disabling workplace injuries
- What OSHA is planning for 2020
- OSHA fines in 4th quarter top $8 million
- What's new at ComplianceSigns: NFPA-10 labels, confined space signs, playground warnings and more
This document discusses combustible dust safety. It begins with a brief history of dust explosions, noting the first recorded incident in 1785 and 281 incidents in the US from 1980-2005 resulting in 119 deaths and 718 injuries. It then provides examples of combustible dust accidents in various industries that resulted in fatalities and injuries. The document discusses NFPA standards related to combustible dust hazards and provides data on combustible dust incidents in the US by industry and material type. It also lists potential ignition sources and describes OSHA's National Emphasis Program focused on combustible dust.
The document outlines seven steps that companies can take to improve safety from combustible dust explosions:
1. Acknowledge if combustible dust is present and prevent accumulation, even without testing. Dust explosions require fuel, oxygen, an ignition source, dispersion, and confinement.
2. Understand regulations from OSHA and NFPA that apply to specific industries, such as NFPA 61 for agriculture and food processing.
3. Conduct a risk assessment to understand ignition sensitivities, potential explosion severities, and environmental stability.
4. Create a combustible dust safety checklist covering inspection and maintenance of filtration, cleaning, and engineered prevention solutions.
5. Provide training to employees on hazards and safety procedures
This document discusses combustible wood dust safety. It provides background on the history of dust explosions, noting the first recorded explosion in 1785. It then discusses examples of combustible dust accidents in various industries that have resulted in deaths and injuries. The document outlines National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards related to combustible dust, including standards on dust collectors, ventilation, and hazard classification. It also discusses the objectives of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program inspections, including example questions inspectors may ask. Finally, it provides guidance on assessing dust hazards and implementing mitigation strategies like housekeeping, controlling ignition sources, ventilation, venting, suppression, and isolation
The document is a newsletter from Green Circle Inc. that provides various environmental, health and safety updates. It includes:
1. News items on pollution control board initiatives in India, decreased time for environmental clearances, record low Arctic sea ice levels, and India signing the Paris Agreement.
2. Tips on effective fire protection systems including complying with fire codes, using distributed network systems, and improving evacuation routes.
3. A case study on a company that underwent modernization and a cleaner production assessment, investing 5.5 lakh and saving 11.5 lakh annually.
This presentation discusses facility surface dust contamination from lead soldering operations. While airborne exposures may be below limits, lead dust can deposit on surfaces throughout buildings at levels orders of magnitude higher than standards. This can create liability risks during property transfers and health risks for maintenance workers and sensitive groups. Sampling data from four facilities show widespread contamination on surfaces far from soldering areas, even over a decade after operations. Cleanup is possible but contamination may remain above guidelines after initial cleaning. Courts have found companies liable for lead contamination left on purchased properties.
Pollution being an endangerment to the living beings present all over the globe which impinges people's lives everyday. Major life threatening illnesses have been reported worldwide due to chronic exposure to pollution.WHO reports 6.5million premature deaths every year due to pollution which is a major threat to the human existence.This presentation discusses about the different types of pollution, its health effects, the steps being taken to control pollution in India and the ways to control the pollution. I hope this helps atleast a bit to make the world a better place for us to live!!
1) OSHA issued over $9 million in fines in the third quarter of 2019, with individual fines ranging from $104,637 to $897,000. Total fines issued by OSHA in 2019 have surpassed $24 million so far.
2) NFPA has released a new white paper providing guidance on how organizations can meet emergency preparedness requirements set by CMS using NFPA 1300 standards.
3) ComplianceSigns has added new Prop 65 chemical hazard signs and grow house UV warning signs to its product line. The article also provides an overview of the company's products and services.
Conflict Mineral Compliance Toolkit For Executives Matt Whitteker
Assent Compliance was the only software vendor that the SEC consulted with when passing the Conflict Minerals legislation. Assent has been on the ground floor and has been able to work with over 20% of S&P 500 companies in scope of the law. We've compiled this Ebook to assist with companies that need to comply. This is a play book with everything you need to know. If you want more information visit http://www.assentcompliance.com or email info@assentcompliance.com
Top Safety News for September, 2020:
- National Farm Safety & Health Week
- Selecting a Respirator for Construction Dust
- OSHA Issues COVID-related Fines
- Free COVID-19 Safety Guides for Schools
- What's new at ComplianceSigns: Safety scoreboards, custom coronavirus floor labels
This document summarizes federal environmental regulations that may affect the commercial printing industry, specifically regarding air requirements under the Clean Air Act. It discusses the EPA's National Ambient Air Quality Standards and how nonattainment areas are classified. Printing facilities are considered sources of volatile organic compound emissions, which are precursors to ozone. The document outlines requirements for existing major sources in nonattainment areas to implement Reasonably Available Control Technology. It also discusses new source review permitting requirements for new or modified major sources of air pollution.
This document provides information about the Combustible Dust Training Program (C-DuST) grant from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The grant was awarded to Kirkwood Community College to develop a training program to improve worker safety around combustible dust hazards. The training program covers the conditions needed for a dust explosion, types of combustible dusts, case studies of dust explosions, and methods to prevent dust explosions through practices like housekeeping, dust control systems, and fire prevention. The goal is to help workers recognize combustible dust hazards and address them in their workplaces.
KuberTENes Birthday Bash Guadalajara - K8sGPT first impressionsVictor Morales
K8sGPT is a tool that analyzes and diagnoses Kubernetes clusters. This presentation was used to share the requirements and dependencies to deploy K8sGPT in a local environment.
A review on techniques and modelling methodologies used for checking electrom...nooriasukmaningtyas
The proper function of the integrated circuit (IC) in an inhibiting electromagnetic environment has always been a serious concern throughout the decades of revolution in the world of electronics, from disjunct devices to today’s integrated circuit technology, where billions of transistors are combined on a single chip. The automotive industry and smart vehicles in particular, are confronting design issues such as being prone to electromagnetic interference (EMI). Electronic control devices calculate incorrect outputs because of EMI and sensors give misleading values which can prove fatal in case of automotives. In this paper, the authors have non exhaustively tried to review research work concerned with the investigation of EMI in ICs and prediction of this EMI using various modelling methodologies and measurement setups.
Harnessing WebAssembly for Real-time Stateless Streaming PipelinesChristina Lin
Traditionally, dealing with real-time data pipelines has involved significant overhead, even for straightforward tasks like data transformation or masking. However, in this talk, we’ll venture into the dynamic realm of WebAssembly (WASM) and discover how it can revolutionize the creation of stateless streaming pipelines within a Kafka (Redpanda) broker. These pipelines are adept at managing low-latency, high-data-volume scenarios.
ACEP Magazine edition 4th launched on 05.06.2024Rahul
This document provides information about the third edition of the magazine "Sthapatya" published by the Association of Civil Engineers (Practicing) Aurangabad. It includes messages from current and past presidents of ACEP, memories and photos from past ACEP events, information on life time achievement awards given by ACEP, and a technical article on concrete maintenance, repairs and strengthening. The document highlights activities of ACEP and provides a technical educational article for members.
Low power architecture of logic gates using adiabatic techniquesnooriasukmaningtyas
The growing significance of portable systems to limit power consumption in ultra-large-scale-integration chips of very high density, has recently led to rapid and inventive progresses in low-power design. The most effective technique is adiabatic logic circuit design in energy-efficient hardware. This paper presents two adiabatic approaches for the design of low power circuits, modified positive feedback adiabatic logic (modified PFAL) and the other is direct current diode based positive feedback adiabatic logic (DC-DB PFAL). Logic gates are the preliminary components in any digital circuit design. By improving the performance of basic gates, one can improvise the whole system performance. In this paper proposed circuit design of the low power architecture of OR/NOR, AND/NAND, and XOR/XNOR gates are presented using the said approaches and their results are analyzed for powerdissipation, delay, power-delay-product and rise time and compared with the other adiabatic techniques along with the conventional complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) designs reported in the literature. It has been found that the designs with DC-DB PFAL technique outperform with the percentage improvement of 65% for NOR gate and 7% for NAND gate and 34% for XNOR gate over the modified PFAL techniques at 10 MHz respectively.
Literature Review Basics and Understanding Reference Management.pptxDr Ramhari Poudyal
Three-day training on academic research focuses on analytical tools at United Technical College, supported by the University Grant Commission, Nepal. 24-26 May 2024
1. Reinforcement for Current and New Dust Collection System
A New Approach
Complies with Combustible Dust Standards
With the high risks of combustible dust in many areas of an industry, the most common locationsisthedust
collection systems.
Howdoyouknowifyourdustcollectioncanwithstandanexplosiveevent?
Whatdo youdoif it cannot? Areyour employees worth that risk?
Are you knowledgeable on the Occupational Safety & Health
Administration (OSHA) National Emphasis Program for
combustible dust? Do you know the current NFPA standards that
address how to prevent or limit explosion hazards? Have you
identify these hazards, and the types of equipment used for
explosion protection? It is not uncommon if your organization
faces these shortfalls to compliance.
2. Reinforcement for Current and New Dust Collection System
Peter Bakke, Project Manager
Cell: 334-796-1277 (WI)
Toll Free: 800-457-9142 (Midwest Operations)
peter.bakke@coast2coastcoatings.com
Coast To Coast Coatings, Inc. Phone: 334-793-9238
Joel W. Boyd, President Toll Free: 800-457-9142
1170 W. State Hwy 92 Cell: 334-796-1277
Newton, AL 36352 joel.boyd@coast2coastcoatings.com
www.coast2coastcoatings.com
How Can You Be in
Compliance With
Combustible Dust
Standards
The National Fire Protection Association
(NFPA) sets standards and codes to protect
buildings against fire and explosion risks.
The Occupational Safety & Health
Administration (OSHA) is enforcement
agency of these standards. OSHA is funded
through the proceeds from fines and
litigations. When it comes to combustible
dust, the revenues sources are far and wide.
U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB): The CSB is
an independent federal agency responsible
for investigating industrial chemical
accidents. Staff members include chemical
and mechanical engineers, safety experts, and
other specialists with chemical industry
and/or investigative experience. The CSB
has become an outspoken advocate of the
need for more stringent combustible dust
regulations and enforcement The CSB has
also recommended that the International
Code Council, which sets safety standards
that are often adopted by state and local
government, revise its standards to require
mandatory compliance with the detailed
requirements of the various NFPA standards
relating to combustible dust.
With the commencement of inspections, more than 2,600 inspections
have occurred. A total of 12,000 violations were found during this
time frame. The inspections reviled 8,500 which were classified as
serious. OSHA’s penalties and fines for these violations totaled
$22,738,909, with nearly another $1,600,000 in state fines. Being a
self-funded agency OSHA uncovered a variety of dust collection
violations in these inspections, including dust collectors that were
not equipped with proper explosion protection.
This is just a small list of common dust particulates of industry:
Common Dusts Micron Kst Value
Activated Carbon 18 44
Aluminum Grit 41 100
Aluminum Powder 22 400
Asphalt 29 117
Barley Grain Dust 51 240
BrownCoal 41 123
Charcoal 29 117
Cotton 44 24
Magnesium 28 508
Methyl Cellulose 37 209
Milk Powder 165 90
Paper Tissue Dust 54 52
Pectin 59 162
Polyurethane 3 156
Rice Starch 18 190
Silicon 10 126
Soap 65 111
SoyBeanFlour 20 110
Sulphur 20 151
Tobacco 49 12
Toner 23 145
Wood Dust 43 102
If you have a new or existing dust collection “bag house” system, we
can help your organization improve the blast protection of your
systems.
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