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Hidden Hazards! — Process Safety Beacon, August 2019
Hidden Hazards! — Process Safety Beacon, August 2019
- CCPS
- Digest
- Process Safety Beacon August 2019
- Hazardous SubstancesProcess Safety
- Hazardous substancesProcess safetyRisk management
- Process pipework and pipelines
- Lockout and tagoutManagement of changeOperating and work proceduresPermit to work
- Downstream and process industries
Summary
This manufacturing safety bulletin addresses hidden chemical and energy hazards before opening process equipment. An employee injury involving undocumented piping containing sulphuric acid illustrates the problem. It recommends understanding equipment contents, verifying labels, reviewing service changes, following line-breaking and lockout procedures, and resolving uncertainties before proceeding.
Classifications: Hazardous substances; hazardous chemicals; chemical exposure.
Classifications: Process safety; major accident hazards.
Classifications: Risk management; risk evaluation.
Classifications: Process pipework and pipelines; process piping.
Classifications: Lockout and tagout; LOTO; lockout/tagout.
Classifications: Management of change; MOC; change management.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Permit to work; PTW; work permit.
Classifications: Downstream and process industries; refining; petrochemicals.
Summary
One-page Beacon on process hazards that are not obvious and how to identify them before they cause harm.
Process Safety Beacon August 2019. Themes: hazardous substances, process safety.