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Proccess safety BEACON – FEBRUARY 2021
A U.S. company had fires at 2 of its locations about 100 days apart. Both were caused by static sparks igniting flammable liquids and vapors. On July 17, 2007, flammable VM&P naphtha was being transferred from a tank truck to a vertical 15,000 gallon (57 m3 )...
Proccess safety BEACON – JANUARY 2021
An operator was adding a raw material from many drums. All the drums were black with white ends and had blue & white labels. After adding ~20 drums, the operator noticed a drum that had a different name on it. Same black and white drum, same blue and white label....
Publication of the second (2nd) version of the Technical Guidelines for the Environmental Emergency Regulations, 2019
As you may be aware, Environment and Climate Change Canada’s new Environmental Emergency Regulations, 2019 (the Regulations) came into force on August 24, 2019, replacing the previous version of the Environmental Emergency (E2) Regulations (2011). This email is to...
Proccess safety BEACON – December 2020
Do you think that you do not have to worry about potential reactive chemistry incidents because your workplace has no intentional chemical reactions? Don’t be fooled – reactive chemistry incidents can happen almost anywhere. Here are two examples. On November 7,...
New version of Technical pamphlet #7 on Explosions
The CRAIM has just published a new version (2ed.) of its Technical Popularization Pamphlet # 7 on "Explosion". This version contains new information on Heat induced tears (HIT). A heat induced tear (HIT) is a rupture of a NON-PRESSURE tank containing flammable...
ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2020 AND CONFERENCE (French) – 11 décembre 2020
On Friday December 11th 2020, the CRAIM will hold its annuel general assembly. This meeting will be followed by a conference on Dust explosions. Both event will be hosted on ZOOM. All CRAIM members are invited. Following the assembly, we will have a presentation on...
Info CRAIM – Fact sheet #1
Following the publication of the Environmental Emergency Regulations, 2019 (SOR/2019-51), specifically the new companion document `` Technical Guidelines for the Environmental Emergency Regulations 2019'' from Environment Canada, the CRAIM with its new Sheet # 1...
Proccess safety BEACON – November 2020
Some equipment such as vibratory conveyors and screens are meant to move, but in most other equipment, vibration is not desirable. It can lead to piping and equipment damage including premature failure. A new compressor system was starting operation (Diagram A) The...
Proccess safety BEACON – October 2020
On August 4, 2020, a massive explosion occurred in Beirut, Lebanon that killed at least 160 people, injured more than 5,000 and left an estimated 300,000 people homeless*. At this time, no estimate of damages or cause of the explosion are...
Proccess safety BEACON – September 2020
An employee used alcohol-based hand sanitizer, according to current recommendations for COVID-19 personal hygiene. After application, but before the liquid sanitizer had fully evaporated and dried, the individual touched a metal surface where a build-up of static...