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What Are You Doing About Dangerous Dust?

Posted June 21, 2011 10:23 AM by Baxter

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently held a forum to address the hazard of combustible dust. Some of the issues include retrofitting existing facilities and providing multiple layers of protection. But are enough companies even recognizing the risk let alone installing the right equipment and instituting the right training processes? What should the government's role be in providing guidance or specifications?

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Re: What Are You Doing About Dangerous Dust?

06/22/2011 9:44 AM

I can remember that in 1965 we had shipped a load of wheat from India to Edinburgh, Scotland, and while unloading the cargo via long rubber tubes up into a large silo, the wheat dust exploded, the whole of the silo just disapeard in a cloud of dust and smoke!

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Re: What Are You Doing About Dangerous Dust?

07/01/2011 10:31 AM

Companies such as Novaflex and Masterduct have offered static-dissipating duct collection products (http://goo.gl/h0cde, http://goo.gl/SE9R7) as well as static-conductive material handling hoses (http://goo.gl/pOnCZ, http://goo.gl/7UEEQ) for years. In many cases a company will not approve the additional cost or simply are not aware that the products exist.

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