Facility owners and operators handling potentially combustible dust were required to complete a Dust Hazards Analysis (DHA) by September 7, 2020 — five years after the effective date of the first ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: Compliance with industry standard for combustible dust set for September 2020. Don’t delay, because OSHA is already citing employers using the not yet effective NFPA 652, Standard ...

Dust control is not a single point action item. Even with the use of vacuum conveyors that keep dusts contained during material transfer from one process machine to the next, coupled with dust ...

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has changed the way industries manage combustible dust and particulate solid hazards by replacing six separate combustible dust standards with one ...

OSHA will issue an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on combustible dust, with plans to convene stakeholder meetings to evaluate possible regulatory methods and request data and comments on ...

OSHA put its Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program into place over 10 years ago. Since then, new NFPA standards on combustible dust have been issued, OSHA’s plan for a comprehensive Combustible ...