Hurricane Hillary and Chemical Safety – First tropical system to hit Southern California in 84 years – Local chemical industry does not have a history to draw upon to plan for or respond to Hillary -https://tinyurl.com/4a69kvjc #ChemicalSafety #HurricaneHillary

CDC Publishes Request for Comments on HCl IDLH – New draft of immediately dangerous to health or life guidance document for hydrogen chloride –https://tinyurl.com/muyud879 #NIOSH #ChemicalSafety

CCPS Beacon - Simultaneous Operations (SIMOPS) - https://www.aiche.org/sites/default/files/202308beaconenglish.pdf #ChemicalSafety

CSB Releases New Butadiene Safety Video – 7-19-23 – Video presentation of safety information developed during the investigation of the 2019 explosions and fires at the TPC Port Neches, TX plant -https://tinyurl.com/2p85exck #CSB #ChemicalSafety

#chemicalhandling #chemicalsafety Chemical Safety in the Workplace: Handling, Storage, and Disposal Best Practices https://twoverbs.com/chemical-safety-in-the-workplace/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Did an experiment. Triton plastic when heated with boiling water smells like benzene & ruins any beverage you attempt to make using it & boiling water. Avoid.

#plastics #ChemicalSafety #FoodSafety

CSB Publishes Emergency Pressure Venting Systems Alert – Looks at venting discharge locations and their effects on four incidents investigated by the CSB - https://tinyurl.com/yc2m3nbw #CSB #ChemicalSafety

#chemicalsafety #pfas
Oh look, there's pfas/pfoa chemicals in common pesticides.
...that have been found in the groundwater of many countries
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pesticides-are-spreading-toxic-lsquo-forever-chemicals-rsquo-scientists-warn/

Pfas class chemicals have been found to heighten cancer likelihood, immune and hormone disorders, etc

CSB Publishes Last Catchup Investigation Report for 2022 – 2018 Husky Superior Refinery explosions and fire – Another chance for CSB to caution about HF alkylation units without any HF injuries – https://tinyurl.com/5ckcvs9h #CSB #ChemicalSafety

The US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is "an independent federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents."

https://www.csb.gov/about-the-csb/

"The CSB conducts root cause investigations of chemical accidents at fixed industrial facilities. Root causes are usually deficiencies in safety management systems, but can be any factor that would have prevented the accident if that factor had not occurred."

They have a great YouTube channel where they go into disasters and present their analysis of them:

Refinery Disaster in Philadelphia: https://youtu.be/gc8qXTh6tTY

Inferno: Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar
https://youtu.be/Jg7mLSG-Yws

Animation of 2015 Explosion at ExxonMobile Refinery in Torrance, CA
https://youtu.be/JplAKJrgyew

#accident #disaster #uscsb #ChemicalSafety #refinery #sugar #HazardAnalysis #RootCauseAnalysis #safety