It has been brought to my attention that our two safety showers and eyewash stations are in need of repair and/or replacement. It is my desire to provide the appropriate equipment, but I could use some help on determining what is required by OSHA. K.S.
OSHA expects to adopt a revised Hazard Communication Standard that includes information included in the GHS in 2011. Once the rule is finalized, employers will have three years to implement the new standard. The most significant impacts upon employers include...
We have a finishing room at one of our plants, and we have outsourced the plating. We also did pickling and bright dip in the room, and we now want to decontaminate it so that we can sell the equipment, or at least dispose of it properly. Our main concerns are cyanide, silver and nickel.
We have a captive metal finishing operation and are looking at a process that will have a waste stream with 10,000 ppm Chemical Oxygen Demand at an average flow rate of 4 gal/min that will be discharging into our city’s wastewater treatment facility, which has a capacity of 2.5 million gal/day. Is this a large load for such a facility?
We have an old wastewater pretreatment system for our metal finishing operation. The system contains two large air diaphragm pumps that transfer the wastewater from a holding tank to the flocculation tank before the clarifier. Since we are renovating the pretreatment system to extend its life, our team is arguing over whether to replace or keep these pumps.
I have been working for 15 years in the field of water treatment and the problem with molybdenum in wastewater is getting more and more prevalent. We’ve found the following treatment scheme to be successful.
In our scrubber system for chlorination, we use caustic soda as the oxidation agent. This produces sodium hypochlorite, and unfortunately, sodium hypochlorite has an unpleasant smell.
