Combustible Dust Tests: Now What?

“We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.”  — George Berkeley You don’t need to be convinced that combustible dusts are hazardous. You’ve seen the photographs of demolished grain elevators, of the Imperial Sugar plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia looking like the Dresden firebombing in World War II. You’ve heard about [...]

By |2021-03-11T15:42:42-06:00March 11th, 2021|Combustible Dust, Process Safety, Process Safety Management, Risk Assessment, Workplace Safety|Comments Off on Combustible Dust Tests: Now What?

Black Sky: A Bad Week for Polyethylene

“It’s everything you do and nothing that you did.”  — Steve Cash Poly-America is having a bad week. Last Wednesday, August 19, at around 1 am, a massive fire started at the Poly-America plant in Grand Prairie, Texas, outside of Dallas.  Local news reports on that Wednesday stated that the black plume from the fire [...]

By |2020-08-27T18:13:19-05:00August 27th, 2020|Current Events, Workplace Safety|Comments Off on Black Sky: A Bad Week for Polyethylene
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