1A Story of a Failure
“Listen to the people doing the work…That’s how managers learn…”
Management’s Summary: A worker drilled into the top of a 5 gallon Liquid Propane tank with a ¾ inch drill causing a potentially fatal near miss of an explosion in a pressurized gas storage area.
Management’s Action: Discipline the employee in question; send all shop personnel to additional training; rewrite shop procedures to include a section prohibiting drilling into pressurized 5 gallon Propane tanks with hand tools.
Freon comes in many different sized pressurized containers for many different reasons. Once used, any sized empty tank becomes a problem to remove from the facility (even before used, Freon brings with it its own set of environmental issues). ...
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