 {"id":3269,"date":"2021-12-16T14:43:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.craim.ca\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2021-12-16T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:45:39","slug":"beacon-dec-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craim.ca\/en\/beacon-dec-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Proccess safety BEACON &#8211; DECEMBER 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two operators were sent to change valve positions and bring a pump on line. When the valve would not open, the operators decided to remove the gearbox to access the valve stem directly and open the valve with a wrench. This activity could be done without affecting the valve top cap on most valves of this type. However, this valve was a different model. When the operators removed the gearbox from this valve, the operators also removed the mounting bolts that secured the valve top cap.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When the valve was opened manually, a large vapor leak occurred, ignited, and caused serious damage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3270 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craim.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BEACON_12_2021_ValveDiag-226x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Situational Awareness: Check Before You Act<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiche.org\/ccps\/resources\/process-safety-beacon\/archives\/2021\/december\/english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read the December 2021 issue<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two operators were sent to change valve positions and bring a pump on line. When the valve would not open, the operators decided to remove the gearbox to access the valve stem directly and open the valve with a wrench. This activity could be done without affecting the valve top cap on most valves of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,51,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites","category-actualites-en","category-nouvelles","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.craim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/www.craim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}