Washington, DC, July 9, 2010 — Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso, chairperson and CEO of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said today he was saddened by news of the death of a Colorado welder yesterday while performing what is called “hot work” on a storage tank containing flammables at an environmental remediation company in Englewood, Colorado. … Read more
July 3, 2010 Jaipur, India- The Oil Tank farm here belonging to Indian Oil Corporation, a large Indian government owned oil company had a devastating fire about eight months ago. The reports were posted on this blog at that time. ————————-Advt—————————– For excellent Instrumentation training courses, please click here ————————————————————- The fire had resulted in … Read more
For hazardous area training and gas monitor training, please click here. —————————————————————————– June 28, 2010 Middletown, CT On a 4-1 vote, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board tonight approved urgent safety recommendations to OSHA, NFPA and others. The draft recommendations, which were approved without amendments at a public meeting in Portland, CT, aim to prevent deadly … Read more
For industry acclaimed training programs on Gas Monitors and Gas Detectors please click here. ————————————————————————————– Washington, DC, June 7, 2010 – The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today released a 14-minute safety video warning of the hazards of welding and other hot work activities in and around storage tanks containing flammable materials. Entitled “Dangers of … Read more
For a comprehensive course on Safety Instrumented Systems that covers Functional Safety, IEC 61508, IEC 61511 amongst many other topics, click here. —————————————————————————————————– May 07, 2010 -After the massive oil spill due to BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster, today the containment operation began when a large dome was lowered into the sea, to prevent … Read more
