Creating A Safer Workplace for Higher Productivity
Scaffold accidents may be seen as a secondary hazard in a chemical plant. It could be understood because the use of scaffold is less frequent in operating or existing chemical plants. The scaffold is probably used if there is construction work done at the plant site.
In addition, the scaffold-related accident has higher probabilities to happen due to scaffold users are construction workers or construction labors who may have received inadequate safety training.
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Safety signs and symbols are important safety communication tools. They help to indicate various hazards that present in plant site or workplace. At the same time, they warn workers to always keep watching on those hazards by giving required information and safety instructions.
They do not only inform the presence of hazards but also keep workers’ safety awareness. It is very important in reducing accidents at the workplace and in chemical plants.
To get the most out of health and safety signs and symbols, you should choose the right one for each work location on the plant site. Each work area needs different workplace health and safety signs and symbols. It is because each work area has a different type of hazard.
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LEL (Lower Explosion Limit) monitor or a combustible gas monitor is a very vital aspect in hot work safety. Failure in doing an accurate LEL monitor will bring to a catastrophic condition.
The same condition will also happen when you use an improperly calibrated LEL meter or LEL detector, which is used to measure the LEL percentage of combustible gas or vapor in the atmosphere.
Before doing LEL monitor or operating an LEL meter, you should know exactly the following facts. They will help you with how to do the LEL monitor properly.
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Success in managing laboratory safety supplies will directly affect the performance of safety in laboratory operation as a whole. Laboratory, which contains various hazardous chemicals, pressurized gases, flammable gases, and electrical energy, if not properly managed, could present harmful working conditions to workers.
Better lab safety supplies management will not only ensure the availability of safety equipment supplies but also could ensure all workers who work inside the laboratory are protected from potential hazards.
Read the simple tips below for having better lab safety supplies management within your chemical plant.
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Machine safety guards are hazard controls against machine hazards. Machine-related hazards can appear during machine installation, operation, and maintenance. Machine safety guards are designed to prevent human injury and death as well as equipment damages from these hazards.
Ideally, machine safety guards should be able to eliminate potential hazards from the machine. Otherwise, another hazard control method has to be applied to reduce the hazard level to an acceptable level. The selection of hazard control methods should always be referred to as hazard control hierarchy.
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A compressed gas cylinder is one of the potential hazards in a chemical manufacturing plant. Examples of potential hazards associated with compressed gas cylinders are high-pressure gases, hazardous gases, falling objects, fire, explosion, and gas leakage.
In general, cylinders are used to store various kinds of gases such as ethylene, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, acetylene, butane, propane, oxygen, nitrogen, and methane. Those gases are flammable and non-flammable gases.
According to the US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 5,160 injuries and 17 deaths in 2004 caused by pressurized containers.
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You have passed a series of tests to work as a chemical plant operator. Finally, you can work for a chemical manufacturing company. That is a good achievement in your life.
The first assignment is waiting for you. You need to learn many new things as a chemical plant operator. You have to master the production process, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), workplace conditions, occupational health, and safety.
The chemical manufacturing plant has many kinds of potential hazards. These potential hazards can turn into real hazards and cause injury and fatalities if you do not know how to run the plant safely.
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There is no doubt that a carbon monoxide detector – like Kidde AC Carbon Monoxide Detector Alarm – is a very important protecting device against carbon monoxide gas hazards in the home or office. Every time it detects the gas, it will alert you with an alarm sound or color change.
This gives you enough time to save people in your office or home from that toxic gas. Immediately, you should go to get fresh air.
However, please remember that not all carbon monoxide detectors are the same. They will perform differently. So, you have to look at its specifications before you are making any buying decision.
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There are many things that can be done by a company to improve its business productivity, profitability, and safety. One of the most common things is by moving their office from one location to another location.
Unfortunately, office moving is not an easy task to do. A company should have a good plan before executing it. It is because office moving has many safety risks that need to be assessed and prepared for mitigating actions.
To have a successful office moving, companies should deeply consider the following safety tips. Otherwise, their office moving plans will end with a failure and may cause unexpected incidents.
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Whether you have a big firm or own a small company, an evacuation plan is the major that you must have in place. Before installing an evacuation plan, you need to ask the professional to create evacuation diagrams so that you can work on the plan according to the blueprint.
While it is important to have an evacuation diagram, you need to remember a few points in your diagram. In this post, we shall discuss five important things about evacuation diagrams. Here we go!
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