A Hazard is anything that has the potential to cause harm, injuries, accidents or other undesirable effects. A Risk is the possibility that a personal injury, property loss or environmental harm will ...

Managing chemical reactivity hazards is more complex than other major hazards. Learn how to use process hazard analysis (PHA) to identify such hazard scenarios and determine whether additional ...

Every day, an estimated five to 10 arc flash incidents occur and more than 2,000 people are hospitalized each year, according to The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). With arc flash and ...

Checklists, pre-start checklists, jobsite checklists — they make safety people feel better about their job and the safety of their people. And rightly so. When compiled correctly, they offer valuable ...

Earn Your Graduate Structural Engineering Certificate in Hazard Analysis from One of the Top Schools for Engineering. Hazard analysis is about helping to prepare vital infrastructure for natural ...

If your facility manufactures, processes, blends, conveys, repackages, generates or handles combustible dusts, you will need a strategy. The purposes of this article will be for identifying, ...

Due to the growing awareness of combustible dust hazards and broader adoption of regulatory requirements to complete a dust hazard analysis (DHA), manufacturing facilities are increasing efforts to ...

A review by Johns Hopkins researchers recently published in the journal Critical Care, says although it’s clear that use of aviation-like safety checklists based on scientific evidence can work and ...

Dust hazard analysis, a crucial component for ensuring industrial safety where combustible dust is a possibility, is missing from the Factories department’s checklist for inspection of industries.