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Environmental Manager
able individuals to provide testing,
hazard assessments, risk analysis
studies and engineered solutions
to minimize or control dangerous
dusts and particulate matter
in manufacturing.
To achieve process-safety excellence,
employees must be genuinely
proficient and competent in their
requisite technical disciplines, and
appropriate levels of knowledge
must be embedded in key positions
References
1. OSHA Standard 1910: Personal Protective
Equipment, 1998-2011.
2. NFPA 654: Standard for the Prevention of
Fire and Dust Explosions from the Manufacturing,
Processing and Handling of Combustible
Particulate Solids, 2013.
3. OSHA, Combustible Dust: an Explosion Hazard,
OSHA website, https://www.osha.gov/
dsg/combustibledust.
4. Amyotte, P., " An Introduction to Dust Explosions:
Understanding the Myths and Realities
of Dust Explosions for a Safer Workplace " ,
Elsevier, 2013.
throughout an organization with
a mechanism for longevity. Or, put
more simply, organizations must
have " the right people, with the
right skills, implementing appropriately
designed process-safety programs,
motivated by the right organizational
culture, in the right way. "
Results are far-reaching and broad,
affecting finances, the environment
and most of all, workforce safety.
Properly managing dust protects
5. U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation
Board, Investigation Report: Combustible
Dust Hazard Study, Report No. 2006-H-1,
November 2006.
6. OSHA General Duty Act of 1970, Sec. 5 -
Duties, 1970.
7. OSHA Status Report on Combustible Dust
NEP, October 2009.
8. National Fire Incident Reporting System.
(NFIRS) Combustible Dust Policy Institute,
2011 Combustible Dust Related Incidents
Fact Sheet, April 2013.
9. OSHA, Combustible Dust in Industry: Preventing
and Mitigating the Effects of Fire
and Explosions, SHIB 07-31-2005.
the workforce, facility and the environment,
while maintaining stakeholder
confidence and encouraging
compliance with all legislation and
avoiding regulatory intervention.
Eliminating or minimizing dust is
a small investment compared to the
costs of the harm that can occur if
not appropriately addressed.
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Edited by Mary Page Bailey
Author
Walter S. Kessler is a senior
process engineer and
safety specialist at Chilworth
Technology, Inc., a DEKRA
Company (113 Campus Drive,
Princeton, N.J. 08540; Phone:
609-799-4449; Email: walter.
kessler@dekra.com). He has
20 years of experience in process
design, development and
improvement, process control,
logic-controller programming,
process-hazard analysis, layers-of-protection
analysis (LOPA), safety-integrity levels (SIL)
and process safety management in petroleum
refineries, gas and chemical plants, as well as
pharmaceutical, manufacturing and wastewater
facilities. Kessler holds a B.S.Ch.E. from Pennsylvania
State University and is currently obtaining
a Ph.D. at the University of Houston.
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