(BPT) – Planning a backyard bonfire, or a summer ride on a motorized vehicle? Make sure that you’re using the utmost care when starting any type of fire or filling a vehicle with fuel, by keeping ...

COMPLIANCE requirements for using and storing flammable liquids in the workplace are quite detailed and specific. Unfortunately, the requirements are spread over a number of agencies and multiple ...

Every day industrial workers transfer potentially hazardous chemicals, such as solvents, acetones, lubricants, cleansers, and acids, from large drums into smaller containers or into machinery.

A proposed bill in Congress aims to cut the number of Americans burned in so-called "flame jetting" incidents, when a container holding flammable fuel can become something akin to a flamethrower. The ...

FLAMMABLE and combustible liquids are present in nearly every workplace. Gasoline, diesel fuel, and many common products such as solvents, thinners, cleaners, adhesives, paints, and polishes may be ...

A man looks on as fire fighters work to stop the blaze at an Isando business earlier. EIGHT fire engines were on site to extinguish a fire that left a number of highly flammable storage containers ...