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CSB: mobile trailer guidelines fall short.(EHS News)

By Cable, Josh
Publication: Occupational Hazards
Date: Tuesday, May 1 2007

In a letter to American Petroleum Institute (API) President and CEO Red Cavaney, Manuel Gomez of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) expressed concern that API's draft guidelines for safely locating mobile trailers in petrochemical facilities fail to address CSB's "explicit purpose" for urging API to promulgate the guidelines.

"At the heart of the CSB's recommendations is the fact that trailers and similar temporary structures rarely, if ever, need to be placed near hazardous areas," Gomez said in the letter. "We are concerned that, in its current

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