This article discusses some unique safety hazards affecting professionals in the paint manufacturing space, as well as original equipment manufacturers that regularly utilize paint in their plant operations. It also offers advice on how employers, managers, and other leaders can combat these dangers.
Employers have a duty of care to protect the health, safety, and welfare of employees, so it is vitally important to keep workers’ occupational exposure to harmful gases within permissible limits. For this reason, providing highly accurate sensors that are reliable is a must.
Sartomer, a business line of Arkema, is celebrating a new "double zero" safety record, achieved at its combined plants, R&D centers and headquarters around the world.
National Association of Chemical Distributors President Eric R. Byer praised Senator Ron Johnson for introducing legislation to reauthorize the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards program on a multi-year basis.
Employees at the Sartomer Americas manufacturing plant in Chatham, Virginia, celebrated a milestone recently, marking 10 years and more than one million work hours without a lost-time incident.
Axalta Coating Systems has received the European Fire and Smoke certification (EN 45-545) from the European Railway Agency (ERA) for its entire Alesta range of powder coatings.
Chilworth Technology, a DEKRA company, announced that its process safety services will help all process manufacturing companies affected by the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) 652: Standard on Fundamentals of Combustible Dusts, scheduled for release in 2015.
The flash fire that burned seven workers, one seriously, at a U.S. Ink plant in New Jersey in 2012 resulted from the accumulation of combustible dust inside a poorly designed dust collection system that had been put into operation only four days before the accident, an investigation by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has found.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released its final report, safety recommendations and accompanying safety video covering a fatal combustible dust explosion at the AL Solutions metal recycling facility in New Cumberland, WV.
