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Chemical Safety in Your Community (Information about Ammonia Leak Detection) The Sensor News

An educational publication by Cool Air Incorporated

‘The Sensor News’ is an educational publication of Cool Air Incorporated. Our purpose for this publication is to keep you updated on the latest and greatest from Cool Air Incorporated, ammonia leak detection system selection, installation and service, and many other useful bits of information for ammonia leak detection. Articles that you will find in this first issue are:

New updates to our Cool Air Incorporated product line
Why ammonia leak detectors are needed in a facility
Best location for an ammonia sensor, testing and calibration information for the LBW-50 and 420
Conventions that we will be attending this year.

Since ‘The Sensor News’ is an educational publication, please contact us via phone at 651-487-8844, fax at 651-487-8857, or e-mail us at info@coolairinc.com for questions, suggestions or comments for future issues. We want to make this publication as interactive as possible and we are interested in your thoughts for future articles.

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Environmental Protection Agency Emergency Management Programs

EPA programs help ensure that facilities and organizations take steps to prevent oil spills, chemical accidents, and other emergencies, implement planning and preparedness requirements, and respond to environmental emergencies.
More at: http://www.epa.gov/oem/index.htm

Chemical Safety in Your Community (Information about Ammonia Leak Detection) Under the authority of section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act, the Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions require facilities that produce, handle, process, distribute, or store certain chemicals to develop a Risk Management Program, prepare a Risk Management Plan (RMP), and submit the RMP to EPA. Covered facilities were initially required to comply with the rule in 1999, and the rule has been amended on several occasions since then, most recently in 2004.
More at: http://epa.gov/OEM/content/rmp/index.htm

Emergency Management: Publications
Links to emergency management publications:
http://www.epa.gov/emergencies/publications.htm

Chemical Safety Alert: Hazards of Ammonia Releases at Ammonia Refrigeration Facilities (Updated)

Anhydrous ammonia is used as a refrigerant in mechanical compression systems at a large number of industrial facilities. This is a document on ammonia hazard awareness and reduction.

Chemical Safety in Your Community: EPA's New Risk Management Program

Provides an overview of the RMP and discusses key safety, compliance and enforcement issues.

New Ways to Prevent Chemical Incidents

The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments established a new, multi-agency system to manage hazardous chemicals. This backgrounder explores the requirements and relationships among the RMP administered by EPA, the Process Safety Management (PSM) Rule administered by OSHA, and the activities of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.

How Safe Am I? Helping Communities Evaluate Chemical Risks

The RMP provides much of the basic information needed by government, industry and the community to define acceptable levels of risk from hazardous substances. This backgrounder provides pointers and questions to identify and communicate risk.

Evaluating Chemical Hazards in the Community: Using RMP's Offsite Consequence Analysis

Additional topical backgrounders can be downloaded free from the EPA Web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/oem/publications.htm#topical

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