Kansas City 5th Annual Ammonia Safety Day

@Kansas City Community College

Hosted by Garden City Ammonia Program

May 30, 2013

2013 Safety Day Agenda

$35.00 Per Person
$350.00 Per Vendor

Register Today

Never Proceed Through an Ammonia Cloud!

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Garden City Ammonia Programs 2013 training dates are available.

GCAP’s 2013 Training Dates

If  GCAP can help you out with any of your training needs please contact us.  We wish you all a prosperous 2013.

Garden City Ammonia Program
620-271-0037
www.AmmoniaTraining.com
ammonia@pld.com

Randy and Jeremy Williams of Garden City Ammonia Program, discuss one way to test the high level float of an ammonia refrigeration system.  GCAP believes this is a critical test and must be performed part of the mechanical integrity portion of PSM/RMP requirements.

GCAP would also like to thank everyone involved in making 2012 GCAP’s best year.  Next year we are celebrating our 10 year Reunion.  We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a successful 2013.

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GCAP Compliance Audits: 2012 Lessons Learned

Garden City Ammonia Program has conducted close to 50 PSM/RMP compliance audits in 2012.   We have learned a mass of information and continue to drive excellence in the ammonia refrigeration field.  According the the EPA’s RMP submissions there are over 14,000 RMP facilities across the US that use one or more of the 140 chemicals that would require a PSM/RMP program.  Over 7,500 of those happen to have ammonia over the 10,000# threshold.

GCAP’s PSM/RMP book is back from the printing press.  It is titled “Implementing Process Safety Management for Ammonia Refrigeration” It can be acquired by taking one of GCAP’s PSM/RMP courses or may be purchased for $895.00  for more information give us a call at 620-271-0037.

The following is the Top 6 Findings  across the Ammonia Refrigeration Industry.

Have your ever asked yourself these questions about your PSM/RMP program.

Who? What? When? Where? Why? And How?

If your not, OSHA and EPA will.

1.  Who are the officials responsible for developing and implementing each of the program elements? Example Management System

2.  What are the requirements and contents of each program element? Example Guidelines

3.  When are the required actions for each element completed and when are they required to be completed?

4.  Where have actions been implemented or changed?

5.  Why have the implementation decisions and priorities been made as recorded in the PSM documentation?

6.  How is the program implemented and how is the program’s effectiveness  evaluated and improved (monitoring performance, follow up and closure of outstanding items, etc.)?

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Jeremy Williams of GCAP interviews Rollie Shook and David Binder.  Rollie is currently Chairman at National TRANSCAER(R) Task Group Global Emergency Services Leader at Dow Chemical and North America Emergency Services & Security Associate Director at Dow Chemical.  David is currently Director, Quality, Safety & Regulatory Affairs at Tanner Industries.  We talk about the TRANSCAER’S Anhydrous Ammonia Training Tour and free videos and powerpoints specifically to ammonia.  TRANSCAER is also putting on free ammonia safety seminars across the United States.

If you have not visited their website and viewed this information GCAP is a proud supporter of their material.  Please click on the their logo below to access their great information.

Jeremy Williams of GCAP interviews Gary Smith of ASTI (Ammonia Safety and Training Institute) about the importance of ammonia safety days and scheduled events for 2012.
ASTI has also created many different levels of sponsorship for the national and local level to support this great cause.  ASTI SPONSORSHIP LEVELS

GCAP will host their 4th Annual Ammonia Safety Day May 11, 2012 at Kansas City, Kansas.  Must pre-register to guarantee a seat and they are filling fast.

GCAP’s Ammonia Safety Day

May 11, 2012 in Kansas City, KS

Agenda Below: REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE

Other Safety Days across the United States for 2012 are:

April 11 @ Greensboro, NC

April 13 @ Elkton, VA

April 19 @ Ocala, FL

April 27 @ Atlanta, GA

May 11 @ Kansas City, KS

May 21 @ Springdale, AR

July 12 @ Louisville, KY

October 4 or 10 @ Lancaster, PA

TBD Buffalo, NY
TBD Baltimore, MD
TBD Las Vegas, NV
TBD Denver, CO
TBD Norfolk, VA
TBD Oakland, CA
TBD Houston, Dallas, and Fortworth, TX
TBD South Carolina

ASTI SPONSORSHIP LEVELS

Controlled Liquid Ammonia Release: 1″ Line @ 100 PSIG

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Garden City Ammonia Program

Hands-on-Training Labs

Industrial Ammonia Refrigeration, Boiler, and Carbon Dioxide Training For Operators
PSM/RMP Compliance, Compliance Audits, and CHEMNEP

Our Mission Statement: Enhance the technology, efficiency, safety, and educate the industrial  technician through commitment.

A well trained operator should know how to maintain and operate the plants equipment in the most efficient  manner while keeping safety in mind. Demonstrating competence and knowledge as well as best engineering practices. We supply training for over 572 different companies through GCAP,  2405 East Fulton, Garden City, Kansas U.S. location.  We have been at our new facility for over 9 years with the newest technology in the industry for training. We believe keeping up with our industry’s technology is the key to our success when we promote GCAP’s hands-on training labs.

GCAP’s Guarantee: If you feel that the training you received is not superior to any other refrigeration training programs in the country, then the course is  FREE!. If one of your operators (student) does not feel they are ready to operate your system after completing our first course, they can return again.

President  of  GCAP LLC Randy Williams

Download Dates Here
Garden City Ammonia Program 2012 Training Dates

Acronyms and Important Definitions

GCAP has created an extensive list of used acronyms in ammonia refrigeration and PSM/RMP compliance. This list was created for GCAP’s newly rewritten Process Safety Management book.  There are 17 pages of commonly used terms.  If you have any suggestion to add to the list please email us at ammonia@pld.com

To download the PDF click following link: Ammonia Refrigeration Acronyms and Important Definitions

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www.AmmoniaTraining.com

CHEMNEP

OSHA’s National Emphasis Program CHEMNEP is now the mandatory inspection process of all chemical facilities including ammonia refrigeration.  GCAP has several podcast dedicated to NEP and NEP Citations.  This podcast Jeremy Williams and staff of  Garden City Ammonia Program discuss with Max Lindsay of COMPSM issues arising in NEP inspections across the US.

To read the directive CPL 03-00-014 click here.

3 words of the day.

Documentation, Documentation, Documentation!!!!

Implementation, Implementation, Implementation!!!!

Mitigation, Mitigation, Mitigation!!!!

If you have any question or comments please give us a call: 620.271.0037

If you would like to get hold of Max:
757.876. 7070
www.COMPSM.com
max@compsm.com

This podcast was brought to you by GCAPCoolCast: Division of Garden City Ammonia Program

www.AmmoniaTraining.com

Attention!!!!!!!!

CHEMNEP Nation Wide

Click to read directive: CPL 03-00-014

Effective Date: Nov 29, 2011

PSM Covered Chemical Facilities National Emphasis Program

GCAP has just finished rewriting their PSM (Process Safety Management) and NEP (National Emphasis Program) courses.

PSM – Most PSM courses rely on the IIAR’s excellent “Guide to the Implementation of Process Safety Management for Ammonia Refrigeration” first published in 1994, the subsequent “Process Safety Management Guidelines” in 1998 and its companion “Risk Management Guidelines.” While GCAP believes these books provided an excellent resource for their time, PSM implementation has continued to evolve rapidly in the years since they were published and they no longer reflect the “state of the art”. The new PSM course offered exclusively by GCAP is a re-envisioning of Process Safety Management implementation based on the experiences of the Ammonia refrigeration industry over the past 15+ years, the guidance from the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), the NEP guidance from OSHA and the over 8,000 pages of OSHA citations GCAP has amassed from Freedom of Information requests.

NEP – OSHA’s National Emphasis Program for Chemical Facilities evolved in part from the consistent deficiencies found in OSHA’s PSM NEP on refineries. After a 2 year pilot program in 3 regions, OSHA has now rolled out their Chemical NEP inspections nation-wide targeting Ammonia Refrigeration Systems. In anticipation of this massive change in PSM implementation compliance auditing, GCAP designed this course around the lessons learned in the pilot program. Currently, GCAP is the only training organisation in the world offering a 40-hours course specifically on how to implement PSM to the modern requirements under the NEP compliance initiatives.

GCAP will release an audio podcast within the next few days.

For more information on CHEMNEP and PSM/RMP please visit www.AmmoniaTraining.com