Shortly before Christmas, there was a massive fire and explosion at a fireworks market on the northern outskirts of Mexico City with a death toll of at least 32 people. This is Mexico and the pyrotechnics industry, neither of which are regulated by OSHA’s PSM standard. However, how might the fundamentals of PSM be applied elsewhere […]
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PSM in Space Exploration?
FALCON 9 FIRST STAGE LAND LANDING (ORBCOMM 2 MISSION) Courtesy of SpaceX.com On September 1, 2016 SpaceX attempted to launch a Falcon 9 rocket with payload and “during a standard pre-launch static fire test for the AMOS-6 mission, there was an anomaly at SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 resulting in loss of the […]
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PSM in Paper Mills?
Ah, the smell of Kraft mills…it is amazing that one type of plant has given an entire industry a bad name for its putrid smells. But that is a whole different blog post. Let’s take a look at how PSM may be applied in the Pulp & Paper industry. In early February, there was an […]