Hot Potato

“More often than not, to blame someone else is to play ‘hot potato’ with something that’s neither hot nor a potato.”  — Craig D. Lounsbrough Imagine you work at a plant that makes a polymer. One of the raw materials is the monomer and it is toxic, reactive, and flammable. It contains an inhibitor to [...]

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Tank Truck Relief Valves: Accept Them As Layers of Protection?

“The ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.”  — Simon Van Booy PHA teams often face the question of whether to address tank truck loading and unloading. On the one hand, trucks in transit are under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), not the [...]

By |2025-07-03T14:57:02-05:00June 20th, 2025|PHA, Process Safety, Workplace Safety|Comments Off on Tank Truck Relief Valves: Accept Them As Layers of Protection?
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