NY Times June 29 Three workers at a waste transfer station in Queens were overcome by toxic fumes Monday afternoon and died, apparently falling one after...
Do you know any public (POTW) or commercial wastewater treatment plants/vendors that accept industrial wastewater by tank truck and are located in Pennsylvania...
For USA. For waste generated by a Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator what is the status of the waste according to DOT hazmat (49 CFR) regs if the...
How do a due diligence evaluation for a new waste vendor that you plan to use to disposes of your waste (haz and non-haz)? What criteria do you use? If you...
Source: (USA) CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD 40 CFR Chapter VI Chemical Release Reporting AGENCY: Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation...
Source: (USA) Federal Register: June 25, 2009 40 CFR Parts 1, 40, 63, 260, 261, 262, 266, 271, 750 and 761 Reorganization and Name Change for the Office of...
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"Chief Sudnik said the concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the hole was measured at 200 parts per million, double the amount that environmental experts...
Hello list mates, Which minimum H2S concentration will kill birds in an instant? As birds have a whole different breathing system, they are much more...
Forwarded by the Interstate Chemical Threats Workgroup (ICTW) Hazardous Materials Exposure Guide: A Step-By-Step Medical Response Guide. Minnesota Department...
Let us also factor in oxygen displacement by the h2s. This may also have affected the workers. Dave Sent on the TELUS Mobility network with BlackBerry ... ...
Is your H2S presentation a powerpoint. If so would you be willing to share it? Thanks Dan Deputy Fire Coordinator-HAZMAT Chautauqua County NY 716-410-4263 ...
I should have said h2s and other gases for displacement. It would be nice to know the meter reading for the oxygen sensor. Remembering a drop in 1% in the...
I agree with you that the fire chiefs statements may not be entirely correct. But, its important to remember that while OSHA PELs are the law they are also...
In my previous post I made reference to 50,000 ppm being the amount of other gases present if your oxygen sensor drops by a 1 % reading. By no means am I a...
FYI. Candadian TDG regs will be revised in the future to require security plans for certain dangerous goods. The law was amended as described below. As a...
Amendment 8 – Gazette I Transport Canada has published an amendment to the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations in Gazette I on May 2, 2009. The two...
It is not quite accurate to say that a birds breathing system is different from ours. In fact, our breathing system is pretty much the same for most air...
I think you did fine explaining this. Oxygen only makes up about 1/5 of the air. when a contaminant is introduced it not only has to displace the oxygen but...
I often use the marble analogy. It goes something like this: If I fill a wide-mouth jar with an *homogeneous* mixture of 20 white marbles and 80 black ones,...
From: GEORGE HOLLIDAY The ASME EED Newsletter for 3 July 2009 is available at: http://files.asme.org/Divisions/EED/16811.pdf (PDF) COMMENT Item "A" is of...
You can reshape this one any way you want. A news reporter was interviewing the over-the-road truck driver whjo had just one a truck-driving rodeo contest. The...
HazMat Synergy: Working Smarter During Tough Times The Virginia Association of Hazardous Materials Response Specialists (VAHMRS), in conjunction with the...
Process Safety Beacon July 2009 <http://www.aiche.org/uploadedFiles/CCPS/Resources/Beacon/July09EnglishBeacon.pdf> If the link, breaks due to line wrap,...