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A Sure Way To Safety On Hot Work: Flammable Gas Test

Three weeks ago, I read news about US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) guidelines on the prevention of explosion. These guidelines are aim to prevent explosion related to any hot work, which has caused many workers in the US died.

CSB developed these hot work guidelines after investigating 60 deaths in industrial explosion in the past 20 years in the US.

Let’s take a look at the explosion at a Packaging Corporation of America Plant in Tomahawk in 2008, (more…)

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Consider Analysis Error When Determining Flammable Gas Concentration

flammable-gas-detectorBefore starting welding work at an existing flammable gas facility, nitrogen substitution is the first step to do. Flammable gas inside the facility has to be replaced by nitrogen, in order to move its concentration beyond its explosion limit or explosion range.

Explosion limit data should be referred to MSDS of the flammable gas. It is described in MSDS in terms of Lower Explosion Limit (LEL) and Upper Explosion Limit (UEL). (more…)

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