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#358 – OMICRON HAS ARRIVED – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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Looks like We’re heading into what could be a tough winter. Canada and the United States currently has a 7-day average of about 94,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, nearly all of which are the delta variant.

Case numbers have been increasing the past few weeks, including in places which has some of the highest vaccination rates in the country. Hospitals and caregivers are once again strained. The Pentagon sent medical teams to two major hospitals in Minnesota last month and another team was scheduled to arrive this week. Continue reading →

#357 – CUTTING CORNERS TRIGGER VAPOR EXPLOSION – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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Environmental health and safety should never take a back seat to making a profit. The former president of an oil waste reclamation plant learned that lesson the hard way. Peter Margiotta, 64 years old, just started an 18-month sentence in a federal prison after being found guilty of multiple criminal violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA).

Rushing to get up and running before all the T’s were crossed and I’s dotted landed three of his former employees in the hospital and blew up a sizable chunk of his plant. Continue reading →

#356 – SIX KEY FACETS OF GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN RISK – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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The world’s supply chains are being tested like never before, Supply chain conditions traditionally affect countries’ rankings within the annual index.

As one of the world’s largest safety & loss Prevention and supply chain resilience experts,  today has identified six facets of the current supply chain crisis that exemplify threats to business resilience. Continue reading →

#355 – CHANGE MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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Management of Change (MOC) is a process for evaluating and controlling modifications to facility design, operation, organisation, or activities. It is one of the most essential elements of Process Safety Management (PSM). In the chemical process industries and Oil & Gas (CPI), MOC is required to ensure that safety, health and environment are controlled. Every year with monotonous regularity, major accidents related to MOC failure is significant and caused by lack of MOC management, resulting in thousands of lives being lost, and $ billions in lost production. Continue reading →

#353 – IDENTIFYING ZONE 0, ZONE 1, AND ZONE 2 HAZARDOUS AREAS – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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Hazardous area classification (HAC, formerly electrical area classification) impacts the design and operation of petroleum, chemical processes, and other industrial operations that utilize flammable materials in potentially ignitable atmospheric concentrations in air by requiring ignition source controls.

Uncontrolled ignition of in air can result in loss of life, property damage, business interruption, a negative impact on communities, and legal liabilities. There are numerous regulations used in a variety of industries to address hazardous area classification. Not only is it important to select the appropriate code, but the findings of the classification analysis need to be documented.   Continue reading →