DEVELOPING STORIES

New board of directors for the CRAIM

Montréal, le 6 décembre 2023 – The Major Industrial Accidents Reduction Council (CRAIM), held its annual general meeting at the Club de Golf Métropolitain Anjou last Wednesday. This was an opportunity for the President, Mr. Dimitri Tsingakis to review the activities...

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Info CRAIM – sheet #3

This fact sheet aims to clarify the concept of the safety perimeter used during an emergency response involving hazardous substances and that of the emergency measures planning zones established in the environmental emergency plans required by the Regulation...

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FORMAtion RUE – PMU

Le CRAIM vous offre la possibilité de participer à un atelier sur le Règlement sur les urgences environnementales ainsi que sur les plans d’urgence en relation avec le RUE. Cet événement a pour objectifs de vous faire connaître les obligations auxquelles doit se...

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Proccess safety BEACON – JULY 2022

A plant experienced a piping leak and could not shutdown to properly repair it. Using their leak clamp procedure, they consulted the required experts and approved use of a temporary clamp for 6 months. After that time, the status of the clamp was to be reviewed,...

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Proccess safety BEACON – JUNE 2022

A company decided to stop making a chemical product. One of the input materials was toxic and corrosive phosphorus trichloride (PCl3). The lines to the storage tank and the process area were cleared of PCl3 . A few years later, an operator found a leak outdoors. The...

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Proccess safety BEACON – MAY 2022

On May 3, 2019, operators at a plant in Waukegan, Illinois were performing a batch operation, manually adding and mixing chemicals in a tank inside a building. An operator pumped an incorrect chemical into the tank. That chemical was incompatible with a chemical...

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Proccess safety BEACON – APRIL 2022

On July 12, 2020, a fire broke out on the US Navy ship USS Bonhomme Richard while it was docked in San Diego, California. The fire burned for 5 days and spread to 11 of the 15 decks of the ship. Temperatures from the fire exceeded 1400 F (760 C). The financial loss...

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