re: Chemical Safety Board releases animation of fire at 2016 BR Exxon refinery

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Not really disagreeing with you there as I don't know too much about valves, but if you have only 3% of your valves with a different configuration, you better damn well identify it as such and do so in a very conspicuous way. Especially if your "accepted procedure" is obviously geared toward the 97%. You can't have a universal procedure when your equipment isn't the same. That valve needed to be tagged or identified as different from the rest.

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there's all kinds of valves. They're not all the same. We stress this all the time; when you're working and conditions/work plan changes you need to step back and do a hazard assessment. The valve wasn't the issue