The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has placed an emphasis on combustible dust hazards in recent years—and for good reason. Combustible dust has resulted in numerous deadly ...

The hazards of combustible dust are life threatening. From 1980 to 2005, combustible dust incidents lead to 199 worker deaths and 718 injures, according to OSHA. In 2010, at AL Solutions in New ...

OSHA put its Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program into place over 10 years ago. Since then, new NFPA standards on combustible dust have been issued, OSHA’s plan for a comprehensive Combustible ...

WASHINGTON — OSHA has revised its National Emphasis Program on combustible dust to include cut stock, resawing lumber and planing. According to OSHA, any combustible material can burn rapidly when in ...

The biggest mistake food manufacturers make is assuming that because their plants have been in operation for years without accidents and without being cited, they are in compliance. Many in the ...

Dust explosions and fires plague many workplaces and industries. Under the right conditions, dust from metals, foods, paper, polymers, and wood can explode and cause injury and death. For the first ...

I handled my first combustible dust case in the late 80s and long before I worked at the Imperial Sugar plant event, I had learned about the fickle and never-to-be-taken lightly risks associated with ...

Critical and Valuable Insights are presented in The Combustible Dust Incident Report for the Year 2022, including Worldwide, Combustible Dust Incidents. The latest insights into Combustible Dust ...

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has changed the way industries manage combustible dust and particulate solid hazards by replacing six separate combustible dust standards with one ...

THE MASSIVE LETHAL explosion in a dusty sugar plant in Georgia earlier this month has reopened debates on how to reduce the likelihood of explosions due to combustible dust, hundreds of which have ...