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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...
Proccess safety BEACON – August 2020
There have been many fires and explosions in our industry over the years due to ignition during spark-producing Hot Work. The May 2020 Beacon covered the fatal consequences from one such event. One element of preparing for Hot Work is to check for – and prevent – the...
Process safety BEACON – March 2020
At a wastewater facility in Santa Paula (Southern California), on November 18, 2014, a vacuum truck explosion sprayed hazardous material over the site and sent dozens, including three firefighters, to hospital. Sodium chlorite, an oxidizing agent, was identified in...
Proccess safety BEACON – July 2020
An explosion on October 13, 2002, propelled large fragments of debris offsite, some landed near crude oil storage tanks. Three people were injured, but fortunately, no fatalities occurred. Steam leaking through manual block valves heated crude Mononitrotoluene (MNT)...
Proccess safety BEACON – June 2020
Can a “fail open” valve fail closed?. Clearly the answer is YES or we would not have asked the question! On piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) or other process safety information (PSI), valves may be indicated as “fail open,” “fail closed,” or “fail in...
Proccess safety BEACON – May 2020
On November 9, 2010, in upstate New York, USA, a contractor was welding new support brackets on a tank for water-based polymer slurry. The area outside the tank had been monitored for flammables and approved for hot work, but the inside of the tank was not tested. An...