hazard control Articles
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How Food Production Facilities Can Prepare for FSMA
The Food Service Modernization Act compliance dates have arrived and that likely means significant changes to your current operating procedures. In this podcast, Evan D. Reyes, National Account Manager at Goodway Technologies, discusses key requirements relating to hazard analysis, preventative controls and food sanitation for both big and small facilities. Watch this podcast overview below to ...
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Public Health - Preventing Legionellosis
Since it was reconginsed 30 years ago, legionellosis has affected millons of people. William F McCoy, author of a new book from IWA Publishing, looks at the steps needed to mount an effective reponse to the disease. Next year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1976 American Legion convention of military veterans held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is remembered primarily not for the ...
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Hazardous waste management: current status and future strategies in Malaysia
Although Malaysia is a model for economic success amongst Southeast Asian countries with its impressive development over the last 36 years, it has not been without its detrimental effects on the natural environment. The most apparent effect is the drastic increase in the generation of hazardous wastes. This paper highlights Malaysia's current status in hazardous waste management and the potential ...
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`Refinery MACT II Compliance - Are We There Yet,` presented at the 2004 NPRA Environmental Conference
Introduction Refinery MACTII. 40 CFR Part 63 Subpart UUU, was published in Federal Register on April 12. 2002 by the U.S. Knvironmental Protection Agency (KPA). This rule, as a subpart of the National Kmission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NKSHAP), controls hazardous air pollutants from catalytic cracking units (CCU), catalytic reforming unit (CRU), sulfur recovery units (SRU). and ...
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Protecting Workers through Prevention
In Canada, provinces have made progress in reducing the number of injuries in the workplace . However, the overall number of work-related deaths remains unacceptably high because deaths due to work-related disease have increased steadily over the past three decades. Despite this increase, recognizing and preventing work-related disease continues to present significant challenges, and requires ...
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Survey of food safety behaviour in Nevada child caregivers
We assessed the food safety practices of supervisors in Nevada childcare facilities. Although caregivers have a basic understanding of food safety, specific concerns exist, e.g. 32% of facilities indicated that they prepare food for others when experiencing diarrhoea and 51% indicated a little to no knowledge of hazard analysis and critical control point system guidelines. We found that people ...
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Karin Baron Shares Asian Market Regulation Information at Exporting Chemicals and Hazardous Material
On February 23, 2017, Karin Baron, MSPH, Senior Regulatory Consultant with Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) and The Acta Group (Acta®), presented “South Korean and China Regulations and Other Asian Market Regulations & Opportunities” at Exporting Chemicals and Hazardous Materials: Major Global Markets Regulatory Compliance. Ms. Baron’s presentation covered ...
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Identification, assessment, and control of hazards in water supply: experiences from Water Safety Plan implementations in Germany
According to the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Water Safety Plans (WSP), a Technical Risk Management was developed, which considers standard demands in drinking water treatment in Germany. It was already implemented at several drinking water treatment plants of different size and treatment processes in Germany. Hazards affecting water quality, continuity, and the ...
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Refinery MACT II Compliance – Are We There Yet?
Refinery MACT II, 40 CFR Part 63 Subpart UUU, was published in Federal Register on April 12, 2002 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This rule, as a subpart of the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), controls hazardous air pollutants from catalytic cracking units (CCU), catalytic reforming unit (CRU), sulfur recovery units (SRU), and bypass lines ...
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The Hierarchy of Controls
A step-by-step path to eliminate or reduce hazards. Are you familiar with the Hierarchy of Controls? Featuring an inverted pyramid, it’s a framework and a visual guide for controlling workplace hazards and protecting employees. The hierarchy starts with the controls perceived to be most effective. Then, it moves down to those considered least effective. As defined by NIOSH, the hierarchy ...
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ASHRAE Standard 188P: Prevention of Legionellosis Associated with Building Water Systems
For Presentation at the AWT 2011 Convention and Exposition The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has developed a proposed Standard Practice that specifies what is required to prevent legionellosis associated with building water systems. Standard 188P is a “Practices” standard – not a “Design” or “Method/Measure ...
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Evaluation of the hazardous waste landfill cap system design and clay layer thickness criteria of the Turkish Regulation on the Control of Hazardous Waste (RCHW) using the Hydrological Evaluation of Landfill Performance (HELP) model
The hazardous waste landfill design criteria of the Turkish Regulation on the Control of Hazardous Waste (RCHW) was evaluated in this study. In the first part of the study, Hydrologic Evaluation of Landfill Performance (HELP) model was used to determine the significance of different components of the hazardous waste landfill cap system as required by the Turkish RCHW. In the second part of the ...
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Potential of biofiltration for VOCs emission control and safety aspects
Directive 99/13/EC on the emission of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) is impacting on several industries in Italy, as well in other EU countries. Many small enterprises have to invest in new control systems and need to be helped to choose an appropriate and safe technology. As VOCs are highly flammable compounds, high concentrations in emission flows can pose a fire and explosion hazard if ...
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Legionellosis -- Why the Problem Continues
This year marks the 30 th anniversary of the 1976 American Legion convention of military veterans held in Philadelphia. A mysterious disease outbreak occurred that killed 34 people and debilitated nearly another 200. The media named it Legionnaires’ Disease. In early 1977, the cause of the outbreak had been proven to be a previously unknown waterborne pathogenic bacterium subsequently named ...
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Tailor-made controls for hazardous, corrosive and subsea environments
With the oil and gas industry in general facing pressures of extracting from marginal fields on and off-shore, it is vital that every platform is designed to be as energy efficient and productive as possible. In a recent interview Kevin Aston, a product expert at Rotork Midland, said: “Midland-ACS, which is the industry recognised brand of Rotork Midland, has been providing products and ...
By Rotork plc
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5 Steps to Better Job Safety Analysis
We live in a world of acronym fatigue. This something we’re not immune to in the world of health and safety either. HSE, EHS, MOC, WCB and JSA. It seems that for health and safety professionals, not a day goes by without an acronym filled conversation. Let’s focus on one of the acronyms that may sometimes get overlooks. JSA – or job safety analysis. What exactly is job safety ...
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Case study - Audits and Inspections-are you doing them for the right reasons?
As a software provider we are often asked to suggest different templates for helping clients to manage audits and inspections. The benefits of Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety (QEHS) software tools are that it makes managing all audits and inspections a much easier task. However we want to help clients ensure that they are doing the right type of audits and inspections. One fundamental ...
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Improved risk assessment and risk reduction strategies in the Water Safety Plan (WSP) of Salta, Argentina
The Water Safety Plan (WSP) for the city of Salta (Argentina) is presented and discussed. To develop this WSP, we used an adapted version of the methodology proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO). The new method included a preliminary weighting procedure to assess the relative importance of different parts of the system, and a more systematic estimation of the magnitude of control ...
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On the relationship between risk control and risk potential for major hazardous industries in the EU
Technological progress is directed towards fulfilling human needs for development and progress. At the same time, the detriments or accidental risks arising from the use of specific technologies cannot be avoided. Risk-informed methods provide various qualitative and quantitative measures that can significantly support consistent decision making on managing accidental risks related to a specific ...
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Controlling Hazardous Air Emissions With A Catalytic Oxidizer
As the full effect of the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments continue to impact today’s industry, many companies will be required to install new or additional air pollution control equipment. With well over twenty years of proven success, catalytic oxidation is a popular method for controlling volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions.During the past 25 years, industry has made progress in ...
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