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Lack of safety management system led to fatal explosion

A 2016 Airgas facility explosion that killed one worker reveals a gap in federal process safety requirements for facilities that manufacture hazardous substances, a new report says. The plant in Cantonment, Fla., which makes nitrous oxide, was not in violation of federal regulations when the explosion happened, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) says in an investigation report released last week. OSHA and EPA regulations that require chemical facilities to have process safety management systems largely do not apply to facilities that manufacture nitrous oxide. “Airgas lacked a safety management system to identify, evaluate, and control nitrous oxide process safety hazards, which led to the explosion,” CSB concludes. “Since 1973, the nitrous oxide industry has averaged one major explosion about every seven years,” says CSB, an independent federal agency that investigates serious chemical accidents in the U.S. but does not regulate. CSB says the explosion at the Airgas facility was

U.S. Chemical Safety Board says multiple errors led to fatal accident

U.S. Chemical Safety Board says multiple errors led to fatal accident

Refinery ignored safety risks

The Tesoro refinery in Martinez, Calif., for years ignored safety problems and fostered a weak safety culture, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board says in a report released on Aug. 2. Board officials urged Tesoro and other refiners to elevate the importance of process safety and encouraged state and local regulators to frequently conduct preventive safety inspections of the facility. Triggering CSB’s report and investigation were incidents in February and March 2014 at the facility’s alkylation unit, which carries out a process common at U.S. refineries. Tesoro’s unit uses sulfuric acid as a catalyst to reformulate low-value hydrocarbons, such as propane and butane, to produce a premium, high-octane gasoline blend stock. The first of the two accidents was the result of a piping failure that released some 38,000 kg of sulfuric acid over two hours and burned two employees. Tesoro initially characterized the accident as minor and refused to allow CSB

Board Says Six Work Rules Were Unlawful

The National Labor Relations Board has found unlawful Schwan Food Company work rules that, among other things, prohibited employees from disclosing information concerning employees, discussing the company's business with third parties, and using the company's name in any “publication” without permission. Also unlawful were work rules prohibiting the disclosure of customer information and requiring avoidance of “conduct on or off duty which is detrimental to the best interest of the company” A noncompete and confidentiality agreement that prohibited employees from discussing “wages, commissions, performance, or identity of employees” was unlawful as well (Schwan's Home Service, Inc., 364 NLRB No. 20 (2016)).

Thermo Fisher wins contest for Affymetrix

After delaying a shareholder vote by one week so it could consider a $1.6 billion acquisition bid from former employees, the genetic analysis firm Affymetrix says an earlier $1.3 billion offer from Thermo Fisher Scientific is the better deal. Following the rejection, the former employees withdrew, allowing Thermo Fisher to get the nod to complete the purchase when Affymetrix shareholders met to vote on March 31. Even though the former employees’ higher bid was attractive, Affymetrix’s board says, the deal might never have been completed for a number of reasons, including dependence on financing from a private equity firm based in China, the need to obtain Chinese regulatory approvals for money transfers to pay for the deal, and likely difficulty in obtaining U.S. government approvals to complete the deal. Thermo Fisher’s offer “outweighs the putatively higher premium but significantly greater uncertainties associated with a potential transaction” with the former employees,

NHS should develop staff into leaders and recruit “mavericks,” says King’s Fund

NHS trust boards should plan effectively to develop staff as future leaders, including encouraging doctors to consider such roles and recruiting “mavericks,” a report by the think tank the King’s Fund recommends. Its report on “talent management” highlights a “chronic absence” of members of black and other ethnic minority groups and women in senior and board leadership roles and says that more should also be done to improve diversity.1 In a blog for the fund the …

Health board says all its pharmacists should become RPS Faculty members

Health board says all its pharmacists should become RPS Faculty members

Scottish and Northern Irish doctors to be revalidated by GMC number

The first cohort of doctors in Scotland and Northern Ireland to be revalidated from April next year will be picked randomly on the basis of their GMC registration number. In Scotland doctors who have either 4 or 6 as the penultimate digit of their registration number will form the first 20% to be revalidated. The Scotland Revalidation Delivery Board says that this approach will guarantee the fair and indiscriminate selection of doctors for revalidation. Doctors in Northern Ireland will …

VOICES: SECURING THE TALENT ADVANTAGE IN KEY GROWTH MARKETS

Attracting talent in emerging markets has always been a challenge for Western multinationals. Christoffer Ellehuus of Corporate Executive Board (CEB) says that the need to become the employer of choice is now imperative if these companies are to succeed in emerging markets.

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Abstract NLRB Notice Proposal Draws Heavy Comment Board Says Threats of Violence From Union Supporters Did Not Taint Election Result FROM THE EDITOR Promoting Right‐to‐Work as Part of an Employer's Union‐Avoidance Program CAMPAIGN WORKSHOP No Time Like the Present to Draft Your Communications About Union Cards PREVENTIVE TACTICS Ten Good Reasons a Union Is a Bad Idea PROTECTED CONDUCT The Board's Rules on Insignia and Apparel Restrictions What Is Meant by “Concerted” Activity? SUPPLEMENT Silence Is Not Golden When Unions Are Involved

OIL RIG PROBE QUESTIONED

RETURN TO ISSUEPREVNewsNEXTOIL RIG PROBE QUESTIONEDBP ACCIDENT: Chemical safety board says government is relying too much on industryJEFF JOHNSONCite this: Chem. Eng. News 2011, 89, 1, 7Publication Date (Print):January 3, 2011Publication History Published online9 March 2012Published inissue 3 January 2011https://doi.org/10.1021/cen-v089n001.p007Copyright © 2011 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETYArticle Views7Altmetric-Citations-LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (536 KB) SUBJECTS:Probes Get e-Alerts

Board Says APA Will Work to Fight Discriminatory Law

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Association NewsFull AccessBoard Says APA Will Work to Fight Discriminatory LawKen HausmanKen HausmanSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:1 Jan 2010https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.45.1.psychnews_45_1_010AbstractThe APA Board of Trustees voted at its meeting last month to put the Association on record formally opposing the U.S. military's “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy that subjects gay men and lesbians to dismissal from the service if they acknowledge their sexual orientation. This follows a similar proposal that passed the Assembly last November. The AMA also registered strong objections to the policy at its most recent meeting (Psychiatric News, December 18, 2009).The Board's action directs the Department of Government Relations to advocate for the policy's termination as part of its lobbying agenda.The Board also called for a comprehensive review of the role that psychiatric subspecialties play within the Association, recognizing that subspecialty issues will affect APA in upcoming years and that about half of U.S. psychiatrists practice in one of the subspecialty areas. Among the ideas to be assessed is to what extent the subspecialty organizations have a voice in APA policy. As part of this proposal, the board endorsed the idea of having the APA president and president-elect meet during the APA annual meeting with the presidents of groups representing five psychiatric subspecialties recognized by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and American Psychosomatic Society).The Board also voted to approve a joint membership proposal from the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry (AAPDP) in which members of that organization who aren't APA members (of whom there are about 150) will be offered a one-time dues reduction of $150 to join APA and a one-time 50 percent reduction in the cost of any APPI book they buy. All AAPDP members will also be eligible for an annual reduction in AAPDP dues of $25 if they include a photocopy of their APA membership card with their AAPDP dues. The Board will make this offer available for three annual dues cycles.A considerable portion of last month's Board of Trustees meeting was held in closed sessions to discuss APA's 2010 budget and a reorganization that involves the APA subsidiaries—American Psychiatric Foundation, American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education, and American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. ISSUES NewArchived

Research in Wonderland: Does “Minimal Risk” Mean Whatever an Institutional Review Board Says It Means?

Research in Wonderland: Does “Minimal Risk” Mean Whatever an Institutional Review Board Says It Means?

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22nd Annual ACVIM Forum Board Says Thanks to Its Outgoing Members

22nd Annual ACVIM Forum <i>Board Says Thanks to Its Outgoing Members</i>

National Labor Relations Board Says Graduate Students Are Not Employees

RETURN TO ISSUEPREVNewsNEXTNational Labor Relations Board Says Graduate Students Are Not EmployeesDAVID HANSONCite this: Chem. Eng. News 2004, 82, 30, 12Publication Date (Print):July 26, 2004Publication History Published online14 November 2010Published inissue 26 July 2004https://doi.org/10.1021/cen-v082n030.p012aCopyright © 2004 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETYArticle Views7Altmetric-Citations-LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (490 KB) SUBJECTS:Students Get e-Alerts

22nd Annual ACVIM Forum Board Says Thanks to Its Outgoing Members

22nd Annual ACVIM Forum Board Says Thanks to Its Outgoing Members

Long-Term Effects of Childhood Cancer Need To Be Documented, Board Says

Long-Term Effects of Childhood Cancer Need To Be Documented, Board Says

Science Board Says US Leadership in R&amp;D Strong, but Faces Growing Foreign Competition

Federal funding of life sciences at the expense of basic research in the physical sciences and engineering could eventually erode the premier position of US science.

Environmental research should be high priority at National Science Foundation, Board says

Stating that the environment is a critical element of the knowledge base needed to live in a safe and prosperous world, the National Science Board (NSB) on July 29 said that environmental research, education, and scientific assessments should be one of the highest priorities of the National Science Foundation (NSF). To back up this effort, NSB, which is the governing body of NSR called for $1 billion in new federal funding over the next 5 years to supplement the approximately $600 million the foundation spends annually in these areas out of its $4 billion budget. Total federal investment in environmental research and development is approximately $5.3 billion annually