‘Industry can do much better’ - US Chemical Safety Board
From the Industrial Fire Prevention blog editor: These lessons learned, can also be applied to the Combustible Dust Industries: Industry can do better Propagation from processes not isolated from each other Improperly designed engineering controls Worker exposure Building and process safety design needs improvement Complex process-related accidents with tragic results are taking place across the country at companies of all sizes If industry cannot police itself, AHJ's and government agencies will From Industrial Fire Journal - Fire & Rescue - Hemming Group Ltd ‘Industry can do much better’ Published: 10 February, 2015 US Chemical Safety Board releases update on its ongoing investigation into the fatal methyl mercaptan release that took place at the DuPont facility in La Porte on November 15, 2014. Four workers were killed during the release of what DuPont says were more than 23,000 pounds of methyl mercaptan, a highly toxic, flammable, and volatile liquid...