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Januar y 2019 Be aware that instrumentation who has responsibility for risk hazards of combustible dust and analyzing combustible dust
may need to be intrinsically safe
sure your setup is appropriate.
them. Develop appropriate train-
to recognize dangerous levels and
or require a hot-work permit in assessment and permitting to be explosions and ways to prevent levels properly understand how
some locations. Action thresholds ing to ensure all employees take appropriate actions when
should always be set at a frac- 6. How Should Combustible have a basic awareness of the they do.
tion of the lower explosion limit Dust Hazards Be hazards of dust explosions and Steve Ochs is Casella’s area busi-
(LEL) for the dust in question. Communicated? the best way to mitigate those ness manager, supporting Casella’s
Ensure that you speak to the rel- Do not rely on technical docu- risks. Finally, be sure that par- health safety and environmental
evant site manager or supervisor mentation to communicate the ties responsible for measuring boundary monitoring solutions. He
assists in the reduction of work-
place and environmental health ex-
posures through the supply of effec-
tive monitoring solutions for noise
and dust. For more information,
visit www.casellasolutions.com.
References
1 How the Deaths of 75
Workers at a Chinese Factory
Match the Right
Could Have Been ‘Easily
Prevented’, The Nation. August
2, 2014.
2 Dust Explosions: A threat
Pneumatic
to the process industries; Z.
Yuan, N. Khakza, F. Khan, P.
Amyotte. Institution of Chemical
Engineers. June 26, 2016.
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