Nitrous oxide: No laughing matter
24 Apr 2017A failure to have in place an effective process safety management (PSM) system...
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Batteries: Aye, Robot!
5 Apr 2017Last year Omron Adept Technologies was facing a major logistics challenge: how...
Boxed in
4 Apr 2017No one knows for sure what percentage of boxes aboard a containership contain...
Hoses: Up to standard
24 Mar 2017Fire engines and other emergency response vehicles are equipped with special...
CDI comes to SA
23 Mar 2017The Responsible Packaging Management Association of Southern Africa (RPMASA) is...
CSB faces the axe
20 Mar 2017US President Trump has proposed a budget that would cut 31% from the US EPA...
Scene and heard
16 Mar 2017Under many dangerous goods/hazardous materials regulations, shippers are...
Life on the ocean wave
15 Mar 2017Companies shipping dangerous goods by sea are often frustrated when their...
PSM: Say what you mean
6 Mar 2017When we consider the management of catastrophic risks, it is vital to remember...
Rail: Shift the blame
2 Mar 2017The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has issued a recommendation...
CDGP: In the know
22 Feb 2017As well as writing his monthly View from the Porch Swing for HCB and running...
Ex-proof: Of tugs and trucks
15 Feb 2017UK-headquartered explosion protection conversion company Pyroban has expressed...
Express check-in
10 Feb 2017Labelmaster’s DGIS Software, a leading application for managing dangerous...
Newson Gale: Bonding session
19 Jan 2017Vacuum tankers provide a wide range of services to the hazardous process...
Training in tanks
8 Dec 2016The International Tank Container Organisation (ITCO) has developed and launched...
Training: High Alert
7 Dec 2016Ever since the Lac-Mégantic incident in Quebec in July 2013, when a runaway...
Poison centres: UFI in the sky
18 Nov 2016As part of its recent updates to poison centre requirements in Europe, the...
Bright sparks
8 Nov 2016Pyroban, a UK-headquartered explosion protection conversion company, has warned...
When controls go bad
3 Nov 2016On 13 June 2013 an explosion in a reboiler at the Williams Olefins plant in...
Set up to fail
24 Oct 2016A release of 90 tonnes of chlorine from a rail tank car at the Axiall Corp...
Ethanol fires: Alcohol independent
19 Oct 2016The Etankfire consortium conducted a series of reduced-scale fire tests in late...
