Industrial Fire Prevention

 From ISHN, your source for Industrial Safety, Health and Environmental Solutions. Combustible dust exposure: lessons learned By Dave Johnson  Firefighting operations can inadvertently increase the chance of a combustible dust explosion if they:      ● Use tactics that cause dust clouds to form or reach the explosible range.      ● Use tactics that introduce air, creating an explosible atmosphere.      ● Apply incorrect or incompatible extinguishing agents.      ● Use equipment or tools that can become an ignition source. The examples below illustrate these general principles in specific incidents. In some examples, combustible dust fueled the entire event; in others, combustible dust may have contributed to it. In most cases, the initial ignition sequence is unknown or unreported. South Dakota, 2011: two firefighters killed. According to a National Institute for Occup...

Here is a short, easy to learn and understand guide to combustible dust explosions in industry: Convergence Training | Blog: Free Combustible Dust Training Module  FREE COMBUSTIBLE DUST TRAINING MODULE Interactive Combustible Dust training module from Convergence Training.  Includes images of animated combustible dust training module, the Chemical Safety Board's video " Inferno, Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar ", and interactive quiz's. OSHA says they're creating a new combustible dusts standard soon. You can read more details about that in our earlier blog post on the upcoming combustible dust standard . So we thought we'd create a free and interactive combustible dusts training module for you. It includes images from our own 3D-animated Combustible Dusts training module, the Chemical Safety Board's "Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar" video, and some interactive wizardry we've programmed specially for this occasion. Need m...

CSB Business Meeting to Vote on Key Safety Recommendations and Initiate "Most Wanted" Program - Public Meeting - Events | the U.S. Chemical Safety Board Thursday, July 25, 2013 CSB Business Meeting to Vote on Key Safety Recommendations and Initiate "Most Wanted" Program All Day Event The U.S. Chemical Safety Board will meet publicly to consider the status designations of seven key safety recommendations issued to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA.) The Board will also consider selection of the agency's first "Most Wanted Safety Improvement." TIME AND DATE :  July 25, 2013, 9:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. EDT. PLACE :  Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center , Horizon Room, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20004. OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES: From 9:30 a.m. until 12:15 p.m., the Board will consider designating the following recommendations to the federal Occupa...

Combustible Dust: From Sparks to Fires to Explosions - Identifying Precursors to Catastrophic Events  From OHS-- Occupational Health and Safety Since the 2009 introduction of OSHA’s proposed combustible dust rulemaking following the 2008 Imperial Sugar Refinery catastrophic dust explosion, a regulation has not been finalized. In the interim, Congress has acted with the February 2013 reintroduction of a proposed combustible dust bill, “Worker Protection Against Combustible Dust Explosions and Fires Act (H.R. 691),” which directs OSHA to immediately publish an interim combustible dust regulation. A problem arises in both the proposed OSHA combustible dust rulemaking process and reintroduced combustible dust bill in that neither acknowledges the multitude of “near miss” combustible dust related fires, precursors to catastrophic dust explosions and flash fires. In 2013 a preliminary analysis by the Combustible Dust Policy Institute (CDPI) of National Fire Incident Rep...

Combustible Dust: From Sparks to Fires to Explosions Identifying Precursors to Catastrophic Events Occupational Health & Safety webinar Since the 2009 introduction of OSHA’s proposed combustible dust rulemaking following the 2008 Imperial Sugar Refinery catastrophic dust explosion, a regulation has not been finalized. In the interim, Congress has acted with the February 2013 reintroduction of a proposed combustible dust bill, “Worker Protection Against Combustible Dust Explosions and Fires Act (H.R. 691),” which directs OSHA to immediately publish an interim combustible dust regulation. A problem arises in both the proposed OSHA combustible dust rulemaking process and reintroduced combustible dust bill in that neither acknowledges the multitude of “near miss” combustible dust related fires, precursors to catastrophic dust explosions and flash fires. In 2013 a preliminary analysis by the Combustible Dust Policy Institute (CDPI) of National Fire Incident Reporting Sy...

Combustible Dust Explosions and Fires-ATEX: Webinar: Combustible Dust: From Sparks to Fires to Explosions Webinar: Combustible Dust: From Sparks to Fires to Explosions Free Webinar July 10, 2013 TIME : 2:00PM EDT - 1:00PM CDT - 11:00AM PDT  Since the 2009 introduction of OSHA’s proposed combustible dust rulemaking following the 2008 Imperial Sugar Refinery catastrophic dust explosion, a regulation has not been finalized. In the interim, Congress has acted with the February 2013 reintroduction of a proposed combustible dust bill, “ Worker Protection Against Combustible Dust Explosions and Fires Act (H.R. 691) ,” which directs OSHA to immediately publish an interim combustible dust regulation. A problem arises in both the proposed OSHA combustible dust rulemaking process and reintroduced combustible dust bill in that neither acknowledges the multitude of “near miss” combustible dust related fires, precursors to catastrophic dust explosions and flash fires. In 2013 ...

From ProAct Safety - The Pluses and Minuses of Safety "When you stop trying to avoid failure and start trying to achieve success, the whole mindset of your organization can change"  The Pluses and Minuses of Safety EHS Today - October 2012 By: Terry L. Mathis Printable Version   Do you think of safety as something that needs to be added to your organization or as something that is accomplished when you remove risks? Do you spend more of your time getting people to do things or to not do things? Is safety the absence of accidents, the control of risks, or it something else? The way you think about safety will impact the actions you take and your actions will determine your degree of success. The actions that tend to follow a positive approach to safety differ in some important ways from the actions that are typically used in a negative approach. The negative approach to safety is actually the most common. Safety is defined as not having an acc...