Awareness Training Goals - Salinas Valley Ammonia Safety Day
Awareness Training Goals - Salinas Valley Ammonia Safety Day
Awareness Training Goals - Salinas Valley Ammonia Safety Day
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<strong>Ammonia</strong> <strong>Safety</strong> <strong>Day</strong><br />
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Workbook Questions - Ask SAL Monia – Chemical and Physical Traits<br />
Meet SAL Monia – Some Friendly and Live Saving Advice<br />
SAL Monia – Self Alarming<br />
Liquid - The <strong>Ammonia</strong> Genie<br />
SAL sleeps in his bottle (vessel)<br />
when under low pressure &<br />
temperature and as a liquid,<br />
SAL spits as an aerosol with a<br />
freezing sting<br />
SAL is cool and loves water and<br />
may form a dense gas<br />
SAL half as heavy as air except<br />
when he mixes with water vapor<br />
SAL travels in predictable ways<br />
move lateral and upwind or SIP to<br />
avoid him<br />
SAL if he gets on you wash him off<br />
30 minutes be aware of frozen<br />
clothing – wear safety gear!<br />
1. What is the significance of SAL’s name?<br />
2. What are his “two very different sides”?<br />
3. Why is SAL a “challenging character” to humans; a real “stinker”?<br />
4. What is SAL’s warning to those of you who work on ammonia systems? What’s he say about you<br />
“messing with the system”?<br />
5. SAL mentions that when operators don’t respect him and work on his system without PPE or proper<br />
SOP he “spits out an aerosol spray with a freeze burn” – What’s the lesson in that statement?<br />
Chemical and Physical Characteristics Get to know SAL<br />
Four Phases of <strong>Ammonia</strong><br />
Aerosol and Dense Gas<br />
Vapor and Liquid<br />
Aerosol, Dense Gas, & Vapor<br />
High Pressure Aerosol<br />
Low Pressure Aerosol<br />
©ASTI – www.ammonia-safety.com – August 2008
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