Recent Blog Posts

RAGAGEP: Historical Variants and the Importance of IIAR Standards

October 14th, 2019

Uriah Donaldson, Resource Compliance Process Safety Consultant, submitted a technical paper and gave two presentations at this year’s National RETA Conference in Las Vegas. His topic was RAGAGEP: Historical Variants and the Importance of IIAR Standards. Click here to see the slides from his presentation or click here to review the technical paper.

Resource Compliance Hosts 1st RETA Chapter Meeting in New Office

September 13th, 2019

On Thursday, September 12 Resource Compliance hosted our first Central Valley RETA Chapter Meeting in our new office. President and Senior Engineer, Peter Thomas, led the training on Chapter 9 of RETA Book 2. Click here to view the slides from his presentation. Resource Compliance’s new building is located in the Kingsburg Industrial Park visible West of […]

ANSI/IIAR 6-2019 Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Closed-Circuit Ammonia Refrigeration Systems is Published

June 18th, 2019

ANSI/IIAR Standard 6-2019 Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Closed-Circuit Ammonia Refrigeration Systems was officially published on May 20, 2019. Bulletins 109 and 110, the IIAR’s previous guidance documents, are now officially retired in lieu of the long-awaited IIAR 6 standard. Gone are the days of “could” and “should”; this standard provides the minimum safety criteria for maintaining […]

Ammonia Week in Review | May 10, 2019

May 10th, 2019

There’s something fishy in this week’s edition of the Ammonia Week in Review… Ammonia Leak on North Van fishing Boat Sends One to hospital – “He wasn’t in any severe distress when we transferred him over so it was a good sign. He was talking and alert,” Pistilli said. […keep reading] Suspected Ammonia Leak at Macduff Shellfish in Mintlaw – […]

2017 RMP Amendments and ERPWriter

February 19th, 2019

Regulatory Changes While the 2017 RMP Amendments were approved on September 21, 2018, only one of the changes has taken effect. Other changes in the amendment are likely to be repealed before they ever go into effect. The change that currently affects facilities is the addition of §68.93 to the existing Federal RMP Rule (Title […]