Mar 24, 2010– Five years ago, terrible explosions rocked BP’s Texas refinery complex that resulted in several fatalities and injuries. The question that is now being raised is, whether any lessons were learned from this by manufacturing companies in general and hydrocarbon processing companies in particular? Apparently not many, as evidenced by the several accidents … Read more
This blog has consistently pointed out that many people working in industry seem to be unaware about the dangers of doing any “hot” work in a plant without a “gas test”. Despite several disasters that have been directly caused due to following this simple rule, nobody seems to have learnt lessons. The US Chemical Safety … Read more
Download the shareware book Hazardous Area Classification here for free now! Feb 25, 2010- The CSB has released a preliminary report about their findings in the Kleen energy power plant explosion that caused fatalities and injuries. Here is the text of the news conference. The gist of the findings are that companies must take sufficient … Read more
Miami,FL Feb 23,2010—- Now you can view the Safety Instrumented Systems e-learning course demo that has been recently launched by Abhisam Software, for free. The full course consists of seven modules, that are much bigger and more detailed than this one, which is just an introduction to get you started. Since Safety Instrumented Systems are … Read more
Update: The ebook publisher Abhisam, has informed us that the ebook has been withdrawn, due to changes in the standards and is now offered as the Abhisam Hazardous Area Classification training course. It also includes a free associated exam and certification of competency in hazardous area management. Covers classification as per NFPA (NEC) as well … Read more
