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More lessons from fire while filling containers — Process Safety Beacon, February 2009
More lessons from fire while filling containers — Process Safety Beacon, February 2009
- CCPS
- Digest
- Process Safety Beacon February 2009
- Hazardous SubstancesHot Work and FireProcess Safety
- Environmental protectionFireHazardous substances
- Fluid transfer
- Fire protectionManagement of change
Summary
This bulletin revisits a fire during ethyl acetate filling that spread to an adjacent warehouse. It examines inadequate fire separation and absent suppression, explains spill containment benefits without attributing this incident to containment failure, and recommends properly designed filling areas and change reviews for unusual operations.
Classifications: Environmental protection; environmental safety; pollution prevention.
Classifications: Fire; fire safety.
Classifications: Hazardous substances; hazardous chemicals; chemical exposure.
Classifications: Fluid transfer; fluid loading; fluid offloading.
Classifications: Fire protection; fire suppression; fire detection.
Classifications: Management of change; MOC; change management.
Summary
Beacon continuing the lessons from fires that occurred while filling portable containers with flammable liquids.
Process Safety Beacon February 2009. Themes: hazardous substances, hot work and fire, process safety.