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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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Hot Work Permit Definition

Work permit is required to be completed before a work can be done. Work permit is made to ensure safe condition both for personnels and equipments. The same sense is also applied for a hot work.

According to wikipedia.org, a hot work is any process that can be a source of ignition when flammable material is present or can be a fire hazard regardless of the presence of flammable material in the workplace. (more…)

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Simple Design of Power Cable Rack Removes Flammable Liquid Hazard

combustible-material-on-power-cableI took this picture when I was walking through the plant site for safety patrol. The picture shows lubrication oil dropped on compressor’s power cable. Then, what’s wrong with this picture?

Lubrication oil is a combustible liquid, and inside power cable is electricity, a source of ignition, spark and heat. Imagine if the lubrication oil is a flammable process fluid and power cable leaks. Image if the process liquid is not compatible with power cable material, then what will happen? (more…)

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14 Tips for Effective Fire Extinguishers Usage

Portable fire extinguishers stand as the first defense against small fire. Fire extinguishers could save the whole plant site by putting out the small fire. And it takes only a few second to do such critical task.

Below here are 14 tips that we have to pay attention to in order to have an effective fire extinguisher usage. (more…)

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Fire Extinguishers Location, Signs, Map and Hanger

After selecting the proper type of fire extinguisher, the next step is to provide fire extinguisher signs, determine its location, prepare fire extinguisher map, hanger and housing.

Fire extinguishers location:
Fire extinguisher location is determined wherever combustible and flammable materials exist, as well as electric-energized equipments.

Fire extinguisher signs:
Each country in the world may have different regulations on fire extinguisher signs. It had better to refer to your government’s regulation about this. Look at the picture below. (more…)

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Accidents in Confined Spaces: Oxygen Deficiency

In this video, we will see an accident in confined space at Valero Refinery, Delaware, USA, in November 2005. This accident caused two workers died.

Nitrogen purging is a procedure required when equipment containing flammable material will be opened. It means that after nitrogen purging or nitrogen substitution oxygen concentration inside the equipment will be very low, as well as area around the confined space opening. And that made this accident happened. (more…)

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Safety Inspection Checklists

safety-inspection-checklistPlant safety inspection is purposed to examine all parts of the workplaces, as I mentioned in my previous post, plant safety inspections. This time I would like to show you an example of plant safety inspection checklist. This checklist is a guidance that you will require when performing a plant safety inspection at the plant site.

This safety inspection checklist may not be fully matched with your system, due to uniqueness of your plant. However, there may be some questions that will suit the plant. It is expandable in order to meet your system requirement as closely as possible.

Answer the questions below. Mark it with YES or NO. All questions shall be answered, no exception. (more…)

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