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Preventing Pipeline Ruptures

The major cause of natural gas pipeline rupture is not corrosion or material defect but external damage. External damage is the damage to pipeline during

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OSHA NEP Fines

OSHA inspected 42 refineries between June 2007 – February 2009. Below is a summary of violations for 30 refineries. Type of Violation Number of Violation

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Equipment Failure Modes

An existing equipment in a refinery may display flaws/damages that either existed during manufacturing or were induced during service. Let us briefly look at pre-service

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Regulating Reactive Chemicals

Recently, members of  Congress sent a letter to OSHA chief, Jordan Barab, to expand PSM standard to address reactive chemicals. Reactive chemicals have gained increasing

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What is Inherent Safety?

A process is described as inherently safer if it reduces or eliminates one or more process hazards and this reduction or elimination is accomplished through

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