John Merriman Washington DC, Oct21,2015– The US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today voted on the final investigation report into the 2009 massive explosion at the Caribbean Petroleum, or CAPECO, terminal facility near San Juan, Puerto Rico; the report includes recommendations for addressing regulatory gaps in safety oversight of petroleum storage facilities by the Occupational Safety and Health … Read more
Oct 20, 2015 Washington DC– The US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) will convene a public meeting on October 21, 2015, starting at 1 p.m. EDT in Washington, DC at the Palomar Hotel, 2121 P St, NW, in the Phillips Ballroom. The Board will discuss the final report and recommendations from the Caribbean Petroleum incident. The … Read more
Sep 09, 2015- The Process Safety Management (PSM for short) standard (29 CFR 1910.119), by OSHA (US Occupational Safety and Health Administration), is an important piece of legislation that is meant to make chemical processing industries safer. Violations of this OSHA PSM standard can and do lead to citations and fines, as Baze Chemicals, Inc, … Read more
Aug 28, 2015- The Tianjin chemical warehouse explosion was one of the world’s worst chemical and warehouse related accidents ever seen. While speculation is rife about the cause and all sorts of theories are floating around, we have formulated a likely sequence of events scenario about how it may have happened. Of course, this is … Read more
Aug 22, 2015– Just as people were somehow adjusting to the news of the Tianjin warehouse explosion and its horrible aftermath, today came another incident of a chemical warehouse explosion, this time in Shandong province in China. It is apparently located in Zibo county and is just 1 Km away from a residential area. BREAKING: … Read more
