Faulting Refiners' Standards, CSB Renews Call For Inherently Safer Technologies

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February 18, 2014 at 11:16 PM
The federal Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is faulting voluntary oil industry safety standards for failing to prevent fires at refineries that killed or endangered workers and is reiterating a call for the Environmental Protection Agency  to require inherently safer technologies (IST), such as use of less-toxic chemicals or other engineering changes to curb such industrial incidents.