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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is responsible for the safe working conditions for employees across the United States. There are a set of standardized regulations which detail how businesses in the industry should be enforcing health and safety throughout their workplace. If compliance is not followed, this can lead to costly fines and…
Valve tags are one of those things that most people working in various facilities have seen, but may not have given much thought. If you have been tasked with creating or improving a procedure for using valve tags in your facility, it is important that you take the time to learn as much as you…
Pipes are found in just about every factory and warehouse in the world. They have been around for a very long time, and make it faster, easier, and safer to transport virtually any type of liquid or gas to where it needs to be. From the outside, however, pipes often look the same so it…
Pipe marking is essential to workplace safety and ANSI and ASME has provided guidelines for the proper labeling of pipes. ANSI/ASME A13.1 (recently revised in 2015) is the most common standard for pipe marking in the United States. The scope of this standard includes identification of the pipe, what pipe labels should look like and…