According to a recent report (Aug. 2008) from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is not in compliance with its statutory
We make hundreds of decisions everyday in our lives – for example should I eat fries with my burger? (Photo Courtesy of Amber on Flickr)
Communicating risks to public from chemical or nuclear facilities is a major challenge. We notice this over and over again with EPA community-right-to-know, nuclear power
We appear to be in a global recession – companies all over are struggling to deal with impact of economic slowdown. In an attempt to
The 20th century was a time of great technological change that forever transformed how we live and work – changes that necessitated the birth and
OSHA is currently working on regulation for preventing dust explosions. The first reported dust explosion was in 1890 in a sugar mill in Chicago. According
I recently came across a report from European Gas Pipeline Incident Data Group (EGIG) titled “Safety Performance Determines The Acceptability of Cross Country Gas Transmission
In an earlier post, I talked about safety in biofuel plants. Today, I would like to share couple of Google Maps (Source: John Astad of
LNG import terminals in the U.S. follow NFPA-59A and 49CFR193 standards for facility siting. As a part of the siting studies, LNG regasification facilities report
In 2007, after investigating the explosion and fire at BP’s Texas City facility, the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) recommended OSHA to
An explosion occurred at East Ohio Company’s peak-shaving plant in Cleveland, Ohio on October 20, 1944. 128 people were killed and 225 injured as a
Process and portable building siting has attracted further interest following the BP Texas city incident. Because of the proximity of office buildings to chemical processes,
Reactivity hazards involve conversion of stored chemical energy of the components into mechanical or heat energy, andit is the uncontrolled release of this stored energy
Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku – is an ancient Japanese text compiled in 901. It talks about an earthquake and Tsunami that occurred in 869: “Then
