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The AT&T Standard Section 620-140-501 (often referred to as Bell System Practice, or BSP, 620-140-501), published in June 1976, is a foundational safety document for the telecommunications industry. It outlines the strict procedures for testing, purging, and ventilating manholes and other confined spaces before and during employee entry. Because telecommunications workers frequently operate in...
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I have a 10,000-gallon storage tank that I need to ventilate with forced-air ventilation. My program states I need to achieve at least 7 air changes per hour. What CFM blower do I need to achieve this?
This is the question I asked Google Gemini 3.1 Pro, and I’ll be damned, it was SPOT ON!
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Bear with me on this, as I know this is getting deeper than most think about Respiratory Protection. But the vast majority of the people I train and fit test are personnel who enter/work in IDLH environments, so I get very picky about my RP practices.
OSHA’s long-standing Fit Test Procedures in Mandatory Appendix A state:
13. The fit test shall be performed while the test subject is wearing...
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On February 4, 2004, a 23-year-old tank mechanic died from lack of oxygen after entering a chemical transport tank prior to a scheduled inspection.
The employer was a longtime Oregon company, based in Portland, specializing in the manufacture and maintenance of transportation tanks. At the time, the firm had 5 factories and 11 sales branches in several western states, employing over 550 workers,...
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On August 11, 2003, a 50-year-old production worker was seriously burned and died 5 days later from a fire that resulted when stored wood flour exploded at a wood-flour mill. The employer is a wood-flour mill that grinds paper-mill waste into a fine powder, and bags and stores it as a marketable product for a variety of industrial applications. The building where the incident occurred was built to...
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In September 2010, a 48-year-old male worker (Victim I) employed by a village Department of Public Works (DPW) and a 51-year-old male volunteer firefighter (Victim II) of the village Fire Department (FD) died after entering a sewer manhole. The manhole was located behind the firehouse. The Fire Chief and a firefighter were called in by the DPW general foreman (GF) to unlock the firehouse and move the...
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On September 16, 2024, a 20-year-old male wash bay attendant (victim) attempted to utilize an electric grease gun to apply grease to the rear axle of a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) tank trailer. As the victim activated the grease gun, a spark ignited the butane gas that was actively escaping the cargo tank, instantly engulfing the victim in fire. The victim succumbed to the injuries sustained in the...
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A 62-year-old technician was killed when an LNG vapor cloud exploded while he offloaded liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a tanker semi-trailer. Heworked for his employer, a natural gas supplier, for about five (5) years. The technician was offloading the trailer at a temporary and mobile LNG transfer station. The trailer belonged to the technician’s employer but was being hauled by a driver from a...
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DISCLAIMER: I am NOT an Industrial Hygienist, so seek help elsewhere if you find this post intriguing.
How many of you use the 95th Confidence Interval in your “Data Sampling”?
Whether it’s personal sampling, area sampling, or any sampling looking for safety data, do you attempt to achieve the 95th confidence interval?
A 95% confidence interval is a range of values, calculated...
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The following are highlights from the 2025 summary of injuries and fatalities associated with agricultural confined spaces:
No fewer than 48 cases involving agricultural confined spaces were documented, including 22 fatal and 26 non-fatal cases1, representing a 5.9% decrease over the 51 cases in 2024, and substantially lower than the 10-year average of approximately 60.
There were no fewer than...
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The tragic dry ice pool incident occurred on February 28, 2020, during a 29th birthday celebration for Russian Instagram influencer Ekaterina Didenko at the Devyaty Val pool complex in Moscow. Party organizers dumped 55 pounds of dry ice into an indoor swimming pool to create a dramatic, foggy visual effect.
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Choosing between methane and pentane for calibrating a direct-reading combustible gas indicator (CGI) depends primarily on your specific application, the target hazards in your environment, and sensor technology constraints. But there are BOTH a “Pentane Advantage” and a “Methane Advantage”
Match the Target Gas (Best Practice for Specific Hazards)
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