Washington DC, April 01, 2013– The US Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) today released a guide that outlines firefighting precautions while dealing with combustible dust hazards. OSHA has released a statement that says: “This booklet will keep both emergency response and facility workers safe by giving them a framework to prepare for potential emergencies … Read more
Mumbai, Nov 08, 2010– Abhisam Software informs us that it is holding a one day training workshop on Hazardous Area Instrumentation, for the first time in the bustling Indian city of Mumbai on 3rd Dec 2010, at Hotel Kohinoor Continental, near the airport. The event, that has arranged leading industry experts as trainers, is a … Read more
The US Chemical Safety Board has released an excellent educational video, that shows the hazards that are present in many manufacturing plants, due to accumulated dust. When we think about explosions and fires, we never think that such incidents could be caused solely by dusts. We normally tend to think that such incidents are caused … Read more
This is the question that many people ask themselves. There are so many standards and practices, so different from each other. You have the Class, Division & Group classification in North America and the Zone and Group system in Europe, Asia and Australia. The NEC also talks about Zones in Article 505 and there is … Read more
On Feb 4th, 2009, on the first anniversary of the dust explosion that took place at the Imperial Sugar factory, the US Chemical Safety Board released a video message. In the video (see below) the CSB chairman John Bresland asks federal regulators and businesses to increase efforts at preventing combustible dust fires and explosions. For … Read more
