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Ammonia Week in Review | October 3, 2025

October 3rd, 2025

Ammonia Investigated in this week’s edition of the Ammonia Week in Review… CSB Releases Report on Anhydrous Ammonia Leak – The facility’s ammonia detection system didn’t trigger any alarms during the release. No evacuation signal was sounded, and no one at the facility initiated an emergency shutdown of the equipment that caused the ammonia release. […keep reading] Ammonia […]

Locating Emergency Eyewash and Safety Showers

September 30th, 2025

This is an update to a blog that was originally posted on 1/20/15. You can read the original blog here. Question: Where am I required to install emergency eyewash and safety showers? Answer: Both CalOSHA and FedOSHA require eyewash and safety showers in “all work areas where, during routine operations or foreseeable emergencies” an employee’s […]

ANSI/IIAR 2-2014 Eyewash and Safety Shower Requirements

October 18th, 2016

In this week’s blog post we will summarize the eyewash and safety shower requirements for a facility with an ammonia refrigeration system. We posted on this topic in January 2015, but IIAR provided helpful clarification on the topic in the recently published ANSI/IIAR 2-2014. Here is a summary of the requirements: ANSI/IIAR 2-2014 §6.7.1 General. […]

Ammonia Week in Review | September 23, 2016

September 23rd, 2016

Ammonia springs a leak in this week’s edition of the Ammonia Week in Review….. Ammonia Gas Leak Triggers Panic in Menglembu Village – Village head Woong Tong Wan said he first thought a traffic accident had occurred when he heard a loud bang coming from the factory about 10am. […keep reading] Source of Ammonia Leak Traced to Ruptured […]

Eyewash and Shower Station Locations

September 20th, 2016

When visiting ammonia refrigeration facilities, I am often asked the question “where and how many eyewash and shower stations do I need to install at my facility?”  This is a good question and it should receive some serious consideration. To start, this is not the first time we have addressed this topic on our blog. […]