Crisis management
October 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Thinking more about the potential for terrorist attacks or accidents involving your trucks or bulk storage facilities? Lots of people in the business are doing that these days.
Read More The practice of safety is just that
September 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Many times managers view the issue of safety through rose-coloredglasses. What we can’t see often looks pretty good, in a compromising sortof way.
Read More Feds ponder new hazmat trucking regs
September 1, 2002 By LP Gas
The federal engine is being tuned up to take its first ride towardfurther regulation of hazmat trucking.
Read More Being safe is a big responsibility
August 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Ever since Sept. 11, our nation has had to do some growing up and accept responsibility for our actions and our compromises. It’s like someone pulled the blanket off all the stuff that was too good to be true.
Read More Worn roads pose biggest hazmat safety risk
August 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Rising demand and wear and tear on the nation’s roadways – not problems with security, per se – is causing the biggest problems for transporting hazardous materials. Improving roadways would increase hazmat transit safety more than specifically addressing hazmat transportation shortcomings, according to a report from the Research and Special Programs Administration.
Read More Marketers steaming over OPD valve shortage
August 1, 2002 By LP Gas
A dramatic shortage of overfill protection valves has propane retailers scrambling and backyard cooks fuming over empty, obsolete cylinders that should not be filled.
Read More Zen and the art of propane safety
July 1, 2002 By LP Gas
You won’t find the word Zen in most dictionaries. I finally found it in the Random House Word Menu: Zen – "The practice of self- discipline and meditation to achieve direct spiritual enlightenment… seeking intuitive illumination
Read More Pipeline spills, leaks and terrorist attacks
July 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Pipeline operators may soon be required to guard against terrorist attacks as well as leaks and spills.
Read More Safety Roadmap: Leadership shows the way
June 1, 2002 By LP Gas
There is an old saying that goes something like this: "If you don’t know where you are going – all roads will take you there."
Read More Don’t get burned
June 1, 2002 By LP Gas
There has always been at least a mild chafing from the ties that bind propane marketers to the safety forces that protect the thousands of small communities across the nation.
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