20th Regulating Agencies & Safety Professionals Meet organized by NSC-MC on Saturday the 17th of September 2016 at West End Hotel, New Marine Lines, Mumbai.
(L.H.) Shri P.R. Masurkar - Hon. Secretary, NSC-MC introducing Dignitaries on Dais (R.H.) Welcome to chief guest & delegates by Shri Arvind R.Doshi-Chairman, NSC-MC
(L.H.) Delegates from member organizations attended the seminar. (R.H.) Shri S.V. Kale, Vice-Chairman, NSC-MC giving vote of thanks.
Technical Session-from Left to Right-Speakers on Safety, S/Shri A.A.Raichur, Abhay Pendse, C.S.Chakraborty & A.S.Karmarkar, Hon. Jt. Secretary-NSC-MC Rapporteur of Technical Session
(L.H.) Shri Arvind R.Doshi-Chairman, NSC-MC presenting bouquet to Chief Guest Shri C.M.T Britto, (R.H.) Inaugural address by Shri C.M.T Britto, Director (Technical), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd
National Safety Council – Maharashtra Chapter Safety Awards Competition – 2015Winners of the competition
National Safety Council – Maharashtra Chapter Safety Slogan Competition – 2016Winners of the competition
(L.H.) From left to right: S/Shri. P. R. Masurkar - Hon. Secretary, Arvind R. Doshi - Chairman, S. V. Kale - Vice Chairman, A. S. Karmarkar - Hon. Jt. Secretary of NSC-MC. (R.H.) Representatives of member organisations who attended the AGM.
Seventeenth Annual General Meeting of National Safety Council-Maharashtra Chapter at 4 pm on Saturday the 17th of September 2016 at West End Hotel, New Marine Lines, Mumbai.
SAHAKAR MAHARSHI SHANKARRRAO MOHITE-PATIL S.S.K. LTD, SHANKARNAGAR-AKLUJ. TAL-MALSHIRAS,DIST-SOLAPUR. - “ZADE LAWA ZADE JAGWA” 1 JULY 2016.Tree plantation festival is organized every year in our industry. The festival starts from 1st of July to increase the green cover in non-forest area. “Vann Mahostav” or forest day was started from 1950 by the Govt. Of India, Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi. Someofthewellknownbenefitsoftreeplantationis to save the eco-system & help in impact of climate change. Full grown up trees help us by giving shade in summer and reduce atmospheric temperature. Trees also absorb Carbon Di-oxides from the environment and produces oxygen to keep the environment clean and healthy. Our Hon. Chairman. Jaysinh Shankarrao Mohite-Patil gave a slogan that “Zade lawa Zade Jagawa” He also gives one plant to each person as a return gift on his birthday. The Govt. Of Maharashtra awarded us in 2001, 1st prize of Maharashtra Rajya Vanashri Puraskar”. “Indira Priyadarshani Vriksha Mitra puraskar” was awarded to us in 2004-05 by the Govt. Of India, Environment & Forest
World Environment Day & Vanmahotsav Celebrations 2016 On the occasion of World Environment Day (WED) & Forest Day, Century Rayon joined the Green Maharashtra Initiative of the State Administration demonstrating the Organization’s commitment to environment preservation, by organizing a massive Tree
Plantation Drive (Vanmahotsav) jointly with Murbad Taluka Administration & Forest Dept, where in 10,000 tree saplings were planted at Tokwade South Forest area near Khedle village, Murbad on 01st July’ 2016.
Kishan Kathore, MLA, Murbad constituency, addressing the gathering
The Chief Guest seen planting thesapling
Shri Sarjekar Mhaske Patil, Tehsilar,Murbad planting the sapling
School children planting the saplings Shri Uttam Kumar, Tehsildar, Ulhasnagar,addressing the gathering
OfficialsoftheCenturyRayonseenwithguest of honour.
Ministry, New Delhi. We must always take care of the trees to keep the environment clean and healthy.
TACKLING OF OFFSITE EMERGENCY OF CHLOROSULPHONIC ACID LEAKAGE ON 17th SEPTEMBER, 2016 BY CENTURY RAYON On 17th September, 2016, the In-Charge of Fire Brigade, Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation gave a call to the undersigned seeking help for attending acid leakage from a tanker. It was creating lot of gas nuisance in the surrounding area, at Shanti Nagar, Ulhasnagar – 3. Being a rainy day, the rain water on contact with the leaking acid was creating lot of fumes all around the area & this area being a populated location, panicwasbeingspreadallover.Thefirebrigadewasaskedtoshift the leaking tanker to an isolated area along the Ulhasnagar – Ambernath Road, just ahead of Reliance Petrol Pump., so as to avoid panic & also arrange for a spare tanker to transfer the contents of the leaking tanker. The emergency team of the undersigned rushed to the site along with hydrated lime bags and necessary tools. On reaching the site, the trafficwasdiverted to another laneandit was observed that tanker no. MH43 - E - 4672 of Saraswati
Transport was carrying about 16.7 Tons of Chlorosulphonic Acid from Industrial Solvents & Chemicals Pvt. Ltd - Ankleshwar to Thermax Chemical Division – Khopoli. It was leaking from the welding joint at about 2 feet height on the tanker’s body, as a crack had developed. Hydrated lime was spilled all over the leakage & spillage area to neutralize the acid. As the leakage could not be stopped, Chlorosulphonic acid was transferred to a spare tanker, MH05 – EB – 599, by gravity pressure. When the level came down, the leakage of tanker number MH43 – E – 4672 could be attended by applying m-seal. After ensuring that the leakage had completely stopped, both the tankers were shifted from the site. Thus, M/s Century Rayon, a member of KAMA – MARG was successful in tackling another offsite emergency.
-- Babji Choudhary,Sr. Manager (S.H.E)
Dry Ice Plug Formation: Causes and how to avoid it Industrial gases such as Oxygen, Nitrogen, Argon, and Carbon Dioxide are widely used in various industries. The transportation of these industrial gases is done in mobile tankers and cylinders of varied capacities.
Herein we will see the probable causes and safety precautions to be taken while loading and unloading of Liquid CO2 from Mobile tanker to Storage tank so as to avoid formation of Dry Ice Plugs inside the CO2 liquid transfer hoses. Let’s defineDry ice. It is the solid form of carbondioxide. Dry ice plugs can be formed inside tanks, hoses and piping when liquid carbon dioxide is decreased below its triple point pressure of 4.18 bars. The dry ice can be compacted into a plug which can trap gas. The pressure behind or within a plug may increase as the dry ice sublimes, (changes back to a gas) until the plug is forcibly ejected or the tank, hose or pipe ruptures. A dry ice plug may be ejected from an open end of hose or pipe with enough force to cause serious or fatal injury to
personnel, both from the impact of the dry ice plug and or the sudden movement of the hose or pipe as the plug ejects.STEPS TO AVOID IT The Piping design should provide CO2 vapor supply in order to purge liquid CO2 from piping. Piping material embrittlement at low temperature should be taken intoconsideration.Flexiblehosesneedbefittedwithsafetyfitments. Liquid carbon dioxide must be purged from the hose or pipe before reducing the pressure below 5 bars. This can be done by supplying carbon dioxide vapors to one end of the hose or piping system to maintain the pressure above the triple point while removing the remaining liquid from the other end. So, we can conclude that we can avoid accidents due to formation of Dry Ice plugs and create a safe working environment.
-- NILESH GURAV,Manager,
Rohitox Industrial Gases, Pune
Leakage was observed from welding joint at about 2 feet
height on tanker body
Mr. Babji Choudhary verifying the documents associated with
the tanker
Hydrated lime being sprayed all around the spillage area
Leakage being attended
Figure1:DryIceflakes
Figure 2: Liquid CO2 Transfer hose damaged due to dry ice plug formation
Figure 3: Liquid CO2 Transfer hose damaged due to dry ice plug formation inside the hose
Figure 4: Liquid CO2 Transfer hose with whip cord
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United For Road Safety (URS), powered by Castrol project in collaboration with National Safety Council - Maharashtra Chapter Committed to improving road safety in Mumbai,United Way Mumbai recently launched the UNITED FOR ROAD SAFETY(URS) community impact initiative, powered by Castrol.National Safety Council – Maharashtra Chapter has partnered with United Way Mumbai as the Knowledge Partner for the project. The project aims to engage with, educate and sensitize over 250,000 youthto become safer and responsible two wheeler riders. Under the URS project, UWM conducts the following activities with the students of various colleges across Mumbai:• 3 hour power-packed, multi-media knowledge session
classroom session on safe/defensive driving, followed by on-wheel demonstration by a professional riderand an on-wheel assessment for the participants carrying valid driving license and a vehicle.
• Formationof“RoadSafetyClubs”ofenthusiasticyouthfromamong the trained youth who become the ambassadors
of road safety and are encouraged to spread awareness among their peers and community members.
Training Update: (Upto September, 2016) Overall, 44 colleges have been reached out to, with 16 safe rider training sessions being completed, training 552 youth. 491 youth have completed the training and 17 have been covered for the on-wheel assessment. 13 colleges have been covered and have signed up for the “Road Safety Club”, garnering membership from 44 persons, with 23 “Road Safety Club” leaders being identified.4 “RoadSafetyClub” leaderbriefingmeetingshavebeen held. So far, the project has been hugely popular with the youth and has helped to create awareness and educate many. The project has received active support from other key stakeholders such as; RTO Mumbai, Mumbai Traffic Police,National Service Scheme- University of Mumbai and SNDT University and Nehru Yuva Kendra.
The Chapter in collaboration with Central Labour Institute, Safety Division DGFASLI, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India organised 214th training course on Industrial Safety from 22nd to 24th August 2016 at the conference room, Central Labour Institute, Mumbai. For 214th training course 25 participants from various industries took advantage of the training course.
214th training programme on Industrial Safety in collaboration with CLI
