Earlier this year, after an industrial manufacturing explosion in Singapore killed three and injured seven more, NFPA Journal put out a timely piece entitled Dust Disaster and an NFPA Learn Something ...

“It’s time for workers to stop dying in preventable combustible dust explosions,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis. “Workplace safety is not a slogan. It’s a priority clearly embodied in ...

Dust Safety Science is excited to announce the "Dust Explosion Safety and Dust Hazard Analysis Demystified" Online Training Program, on September 17th, 2024 HALIFAX ...

A comprehensive combustible dust standard still does not exists, and the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is seeking further input to put one in place. The federal agency has extended its deadline for ...

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has changed the way industries manage combustible dust and particulate solid hazards by replacing six separate combustible dust standards with one ...

Dust explosions and fires plague many workplaces and industries. Under the right conditions, dust from metals, foods, paper, polymers, and wood can explode and cause injury and death. For the first ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: Compliance with industry standard for combustible dust set for September 2020. Don’t delay, because OSHA is already citing employers using the not yet effective NFPA 652, Standard ...

WORDS WERE SHARP at a March 12 House Education & Labor Committee hearing on combustible dust. In a tight row sat the chairman of the Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), the assistant ...

SAVANNAH, GA – In a final draft report released today, Chemical Safety Board investigators said the Feb. 7, 2008, deadly explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, GA, resulted from ...