Items Tagged with 'flammable liquids'

A new grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has begun fulfilling its mission of providing funding to help communities improve their response to hazardous materials transportation incidents.

Typical flammable chemical storage considerations may include temperature, ignition control, ventilation, segregation and identification.

An employee of a California-based manufacturing company checked a bag containing undeclared hazardous material onto a passenger-carrying flight at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Dec. 16, 2014.

The GoatThroat(r) SCP Line of Pumps provide durable, engineering controls for safely transferring flammable liquids from barrels and pails.

A fire in August at Rick’s Auto Body of Missoula, Montana did not, fortunately, result in any injuries or fatalities, but it did get the attention of OSHA inspectors, who found nine serious violations at the workplace.

Our first article — published in ISHN’s May issue — discussed how the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of classification for labeling chemicals changed the regulations under U.S. Labor Law, OSHA.

OSHA’s proposed revised rules dealing with flammable liquids were published in the Federal Register volume 74, number 188 dated September 30, 2009.

In February of this year, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) released a report entitled “The Total Cost of Fire in the United States.”