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Workplace Safety Tips: Learn From Violation of Health and Safety Regulation

A few days ago, OSHA released a citation report for Trachte Southeast LLC. The report mentioned 21 violations of OSHA’s health and safety regulation. All the 21 health and safety violations caused penalties totally US$85,140.

Trachte Southeast LLC is prefabricated and pre-assembled steel buildings manufacturer, which its factory located in Eastanollee, Georgia, US.

This case is a good example for learning safety and improving health and safety condition in workplaces. And today we will learn from that citation report and take chance for improvement. (more…)

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Training Video for Compressed Air Cylinder

You may have read about my previous post about Safety Tips on Compressed Gas Cylinders, now you will get more information about compressed air cylinder training. This training video talks about compressed oxygen and liquefied natural gas.

You will be informed at least about safety in storage, fire prevention, and so on. (more…)

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Hazards in Laboratory

laboratory-hazards As I mentioned in the previous post, hazards identification or recognition is the keyword to successful hazards control in laboratory. A list of laboratory hazards is provided below here. Again the list is only for brainstorming. Later you should complete the list based on your own laboratory survey results.

In general, these hazards are classified into two broad categories, i.e. physical and chemical hazards. (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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Safety Tips on Compressed Gas Cylinders

compressed-gas-cylinders-safetyCompressed gas cylinders have to be handled properly. Otherwise, associated hazards such as fall, fire, explosion or hazardous gas leakage may happen. That’s why a safety guide on compressed gas cylinders handling is vitally important.

Here are some safety tips on how to handle gas cylinders safely:

  • Compressed gas cylinder should be kept in a special room, fenced and locked.
  • Authorized and trained workers can only have access to the gas cylinders room.
  • Protect gas cylinder against mechanical damage, by using appropriate racks or other means to hold them securely.
  • When the gas cylinder is not used, valve caps should always be in place.
  • To move the gas cylinders manually use sturdy hand trucks, which can hold one or two gas cylinders.
  • Do not handle gas cylinder with electromagnets, ropes or slings.
  • Put appropriate label and symbol on the cylinders, which describes content and pressure.
  • Do not allow cylinders to direct sunshine or expose to high temperature (>52degC).
  • Keep flame away from contact with cylinder surface.
  • Keep flammable materials away from the cylinders.
  • Use suitable piping, valves, fittings and others apparatus for the contained gas and pressure.
  • Make sure we have provided valves, regulators and safety relief devices.
  • Always open cylinder valve slowly to wide-open position.
  • Maintain gas cylinder and its accessories in good condition.
  • Never use defective safety relief device and leaked cylinder. Mark it and separate from the good ones.
  • Separate and mark empty gas cylinders from the stock.
  • Do not accept gas cylinders without clear gas name and good gas cylinder condition.
  • Calculate exactly your compressed gas consumption. It is unsafe to store many compressed gas cylinders for 1 year consumption.

Compressed gas cylinder is a typical source of hazards found in chemical plants. So take it into account when we will do hazard identification task. And the above safety tips are forms of hazard controls.

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40 Ideas for Safety Meeting Topics

safety-meeting-topicsSafety meeting is the right time to discuss about health and safety related matters in the workplace. Safety meeting can be held regularly or incidentally as a response on occurrence of a specific health and safety problem or after an incident or accident happens.

Ideally, safety meeting focuses on just one specific topic. But, what kind of topics do we have to discuss? Here are some topics that you can use in the safety meeting:

  1. Safety policy
  2. Applicable safety regulations
  3. Compliance status on safety regulations
  4. New safety regulation
  5. Incident and accident investigation
  6. Safety audit findings
  7. OHSAS 18001 surveillance findings
  8. Safety patrol finding
  9. Personal protective equipments
  10. Eye protection
  11. Hearing protection
  12. Hand and foot injuries
  13. Risk assessment for new plant facility
  14. On-way traffic control in the plant site
  15. Pressure vessel regular testing
  16. Working around electricity
  17. Emergency response procedure
  18. Construction safety
  19. Working in a confined space
  20. Lockout and tag-out programs
  21. Heat stress
  22. Hazards identification or recognition
  23. How to read Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
  24. How to handle compressed gas safely
  25. Hazardous material preservation and handling
  26. Slips, trips and falls
  27. Near miss incident reporting
  28. Fire extinguisher usage
  29. Safety precaution in case of fire
  30. Maintenance of fire fighting equipments
  31. Safety control for the transformer yard
  32. Fire fighting placement and location indication
  33. Self-inspection system
  34. Chemical exposure control
  35. Safety training program
  36. Gas cylinder control and protection
  37. Hazardous material symbol and label implementation
  38. Loss control report issued by plant insurance company
  39. Safety work permit system
  40. Truck driver safety

It had better to provide schedule for every safety meeting, especially for regular safety meeting. Don’t forget to file them when you have finished using the materials. Later you will need those files.

I believe the list above does not cover all the chemical plant safety related topics. Your input and feed back would be very valuable and I will add it to the list.

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