{"id":573,"date":"2013-08-09T18:25:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T23:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2013-08-06T14:40:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T19:40:11","slug":"what-does-osha-think-is-the-biggest-concern-in-ammonia-refrigeration-components","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"What does OSHA think is the biggest concern in ammonia refrigeration components?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read a disturbing amount of OSHA documents through FOIA requests for research. About 99% of the stuff I read is pretty useless or already known to me from previous reading, but occasionally you come across something that wasn’t redacted that gives you some real insight into the way OSHA thinks. Usually this comes in the form of a NEP question (from their \u201csecret\u201d list) but occasionally it comes from the CSHO (Compliance, Safety and Health Officer) doing the inspection. Below are some pictures from an actual fine \u2013 nothing new and exciting in the pictures or fine, really \u2013 it\u2019s typical of a 1910.119(j)(5) citation concerning mechanical integrity defects.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s interesting in this case is the comment that was made in the 1B:<\/p>\n

OSHA course #3430, Advanced Process Safety Management in the Chemical Industries, Spiral Binder training manual, Tab 3, page 28 includes a quote that states “the loss of mechanical integrity due to external corrosion is the single biggest concern in industrial ammonia refrigeration components”.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s true or not; I suspect that MI is neck-and-neck with unintended \/ incorrect operations. What\u2019s important is that OSHA is telling their people it\u2019s true. Now you know!<\/p>\n

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I read a disturbing amount of OSHA documents through FOIA requests for research. About 99% of the stuff I read is pretty useless or already known to me from previous reading, but occasionally you come across something that wasn’t redacted … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46,25,65],"tags":[15,60,9,10],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-compliance","category-inspections","category-mechanical-integrity","category-osha","tag-fines","tag-mechanical-integrity","tag-osha","tag-psm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}