Chemical Plant Safety Resources

This year you probably have planned to buy fire extinguishers for your chemical plant and buildings inside it, whether for replacing the old ones or as additional extinguishers. Whatever your buying purpose is, you should buy the best fire extinguishers according to your needs.

Buying the best fire extinguishers does not always mean high cost. It is not only about cost. There are many important factors you should consider before you make any decision for buying fire extinguishers.

Read the simple guide below on how to buy fire extinguishers for your chemical plant. It may take times to find out the best ones. But, with a little extra effort I believe you could find them. (more…)

In this article, I would like to talk about fire extinguisher refill. It is a part of fire extinguisher maintenance plan that you should carefully performed. By reading this article I assume that your extinguishers are refillable.

Fire extinguisher refill is required when the fire extinguisher has been used even if only used partially or after maintenance inspection of extinguisher tube has done. Extinguisher refill has also to be performed when you have conducted safety inspection and you found fire extinguisher has lost its weight. There may be leakage from the extinguisher. (more…)

In order to get the most suitable type of fire extinguisher cabinet, we should make the right selection from the start. So that’s why this article is essential.

Fire extinguisher cabinet is required for storing fire extinguisher. The fire extinguisher cabinet should be tamper proof, easy to handle and high quality. To ensure fire extinguisher in your plant site always in good condition and ready to use, therefore the selection of fire extinguisher cabinet is very important. (more…)

You may have heard about this news: Kidde XL fire extinguisher recall last March 2009. According to the news, about 167,000 units of Kidde XL fire extinguishers was recalled, which include model number FX340SC, FX340H, FX340GW, XL5MR, FX210R, FX340SC-2, FX210W, XL2.5TCZ-4, E-340-3 and with manufacture dates between October 2007 and April 2008.

The reasons behind this fire extinguisher recall were due to the pressurized cylinders could lose pressure and fail to operate. If these extinguishers lost their pressure and failed to operate, they could put the users and their properties at risk of fire.

When you have a regular checking period for the fire extinguishers, you will know that problem earlier and soon you could take appropriate countermeasures for that problem. In addition, by doing regular check or maintenance, you could determine whether your extinguishers are in good condition or not. (more…)

Portable fire extinguishers stand as the first defense against small fire. Fire extinguishers could save the whole plant site by putting out the small fire. And it takes only a few second to do such critical task.

Below here are 14 tips that we have to pay attention to in order to have an effective fire extinguisher usage. (more…)

Fire extinguishers need to be inspected regularly in order to make sure they are ready to be used at anytime. Usually, fire extinguishers inspection is performed once a month. In this article, I would like to talk about 6 steps in fire extinguisher inspection.

Step one.
Read the gauge. Look at the gauge and remember the needle position. (more…)

After selecting the proper type of fire extinguisher, the next step is to provide fire extinguisher signs, determine its location, prepare fire extinguisher map, hanger and housing.

Fire extinguishers location:
Fire extinguisher location is determined wherever combustible and flammable materials exist, as well as electric-energized equipments.

Fire extinguisher signs:
Each country in the world may have different regulations on fire extinguisher signs. It had better to refer to your government’s regulation about this. Look at the picture below. (more…)