@@pescgoldtfisch2363 Yes, but it makes me happy when they use memes at all. It's cute and charming. Like when your grandpa tries to be hip and "with it".
Ditto... I pull sand and pipe. I’ve been dubbed the osha trucker across the Permian cause I call shit when I see it, (so long as I can correctly explain it) most rigs like me and at the least find it humorous and appreciate it. A select few are arrogant and basically tell me mind my business. I’ve been kicked off a well and told to never come back once because company man was having a bad day once. He called the company I’m leased to and apologized for it, but I think it’s because he REALLY needed his load of barite and salt gel. Now he’s the coolest company man I know. Never wait for anything. Aight, story over, back to work🤙🏽
Every industry uses some chemicals. From heavy duty cleaning or even vehicles. At my work, they had to add 30" of concrete to the floor (in one spot) for a massive new machine. They had a backhoe running inside the building all day. So they set up a good ventilation system for the fumes. (Nearly froze my ass off, if I had known the day before I would have worn more layers)
As someone that works in the insurance industry, I can say that we hold the CSB in very high regard, even over here in Australia. I hope that your President sees fit to fill the vacancies on the board and release funds for investigations so that you may continue your important work. It is valued at a global level. Kind Regards from an employee of Zurich Insurance.
Spend your money to fund the CSB. Mine has to go to Pakistani gender studies, wars I never voted for, racists who want me jailed for my skin color, immigrants who circumvent the law and expect any type of assistance, rent that hasn't been affordable since the end of the 2nd world war, investments for other nations while.being discriminated against.....
I work as a warehouse worker that supplies oil fields with fittings and material. So I enjoy these videos very much, and I’ll be patiently waiting for more to come.
Amed Tajan here in America, we have a number we can call for free wherever we dig for anything... Weather it’s iron, poly, or pvc piping, gas water sewer, petroleum, oil, electric, phone, ets, if you’re gonna dig we can call 811 to mark ALL underground utilities to within a foot or so either side. If you hit something it falls on 811. But if you hit something and didn’t call responsibility and repair expenses falls on you. Not so crazy here. Lol.
If your business has pipes of any sort, this information is for you. Even a small broken water line can pose an immense threat to personnel and property.
Performa A frozen hot water line in an apartment building can cause hundreds of thousands in damages and lead to a dozen or more households losing their homes. It’s literally serious business anywhere pipes can freeze.
Happened to a unit in my APT. The owner moved out and no one had the key, or cared to check. The pipes froze and broke open and cops had to come and break open the door. It was flooded and a mess. I am pretty sure they had to complelty redo the unit due to it.
All of these Texas energy companies should have listened to the CSB; we should have winterized our energy plants. It should not be something that companies choose to do; it must be mandatory.
Thanks for these videos. I live in Canada and work on various sites. After watching your videos I have a larger appreciation for what I work with. Safety may seem like a pain in the ass yet if we work together more often with information like what is put forward here maybe one day we will eliminate incidents all together.
When I was a truck driver I hauled millions of gallons of fuel, asphalt, and propane out of that Valero plant in Sunray, TX. They are extremely anal about safety now.
Great as usual....the use of a "block-bleed-block" valve setup is excellent for identifying leaky valves which is pretty common. More than often the cost prevents their installation unfortunately.
This was Texas, where our state Attorney General spends billions of dollars fighting Federal regulations or even suggestions. Weather that cold is rare in the Houston area (I’ve lived here over 30 years), where the DuPont release was, whereas the Valero plant was in an area where cold winters are the norm (I lived in that part of Texas and Eastern New Mexico for close to 15 years). Even after the huge explosion in West, TX, companies don’t have to tell anyone how much of what chemicals are on a property.
I find it terrifying that the people designing these plants and operating them, have the same knowledge as USCSB has, and all the explanations the CSB makes are always logical, and immediately identified as 'why would you not do it the way CSB advises to, why did you do it THIS way?'. It's astounding that it takes accidents, reconstruction, and logically sound explanations to learn from this. The knowledge was there in the first place - it was just recklessly neglected.
In the real world, everything has a cost. You can't afford to fix everything. You can't afford to do everything perfectly. You have to use your judgement to dolve the important problems and leave the unimportant ones. And, often, things are overlooked. For example, consider the dead leg of piping mentioned in this video. Sure, if the only thing you're thinking about is that specific piece of piping, it's easy to see the problem. If you have hundreds of miles of pipe in your plant, things aren't so easy to spot.
Per events in the winter of 2020-21 years after this video was made, what the CSB doesn't understand is that Texans don't believe in winter as being anything of consequence. And when Texans have a belief about something, that's all that matters, as the governor there regularly makes clear. Reality is irrelevant. If winter does billions in damage there one year, and even makes many homes unlivable, that may have a slight effect, but otherwise, the CSB can't expect facilities in Texas to respond any differently than they have in the past. Warnings about ill-preparedness have gone unheeded for decades.
Defunding The Chemical Safety Board Is A Bad Idea And Likely To Increase Chemical DisastersUnfortunately, the 2019 budget proposed by the Trump administration zeros out funding for the USCSB. Its requested fiscal-year funding, $12 million, is modest for a government agency. Likewise, the 2018 budget also proposed to defund the USCSB. This sustained effort reflects an ongoing de-emphasis on chemical safety - as a second example, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has indefinitely delayed bans on the use of three hazardous chemicals, shown to be toxic to human health. Chemical production is an essential component of modern society. This does not mean that there is not room to improve practices in manufacturing, storing, and shipping chemicals, and in ensuring the safety of those who work in or live near chemical plants. The vantage of an independent group is crucial for identifying those aspects that can and should be improved. Defunding the USCSB, which provides this indispensable independent perspective, is likely to hinder efforts to identify the causes of chemical accidents - especially in low-regulation locales. Moreover, it is also likely to worsen our ability to respond in previously unforeseen events, such as the heavy flooding of Harvey, that may be exacerbated by climate change. Finally, it is likely to cost lives in future incidents.
I'm from Canada,so winterization of chemical & gas refineries are more current here , but due to different weather patterns in places where freezing doesn't occur often , pipes & equipement should be more insulated and the seals inspected for wear more often,these problems have been detected on rockets U have sent to space ,look what happened ,nobody learns from experience?
Well, it's always a word by our worthy narrator, Mr. Sheldon Smith, if I'm not mistaken - you can hear him on all the safety vids by the CSB. but joking aside, the videos are suitable as material for safety audits, the animations state-of-the-art, aren't they?
When I was in Jr. High we lived in a rural area and so relied on propane for our heating and cooking needs. Well, one unusually cold morning I smelled the strong odor of Propane. My dad told me why that was, though I don remember now.
So did the expansion of water happen due to anomalous behaviour of water between 0 to 4 degree Celsius which made the pipe crack OR was it the freezing of water that somehow damaged the pipe/dead leg?
I work insulating these type of pipes in power plants and refineries. And I can tell you something , nobody gives a fuck about damaging the insulation that is previously installed and the new one we are installing. By nobody I mean operators and especially welders
Reparaturen kosten Geld, Winterfest machen kostet Geld, vielleicht kommt kein Winter und das Geld für den Winterschutz ist umsonst ausgegeben worden. Die Anlage funktioniert doch, also was soll das ganze. Repairs cost money, winter-proofing costs money, maybe winter won't come and the money for winter protection has been spent for free. The system works, so what's the point.
