What Are the Dangers of Chemical Spills?
You may ask that question whenever you are trying to identify hazards associated with hazardous chemical spills. With many hazardous chemicals presence in plant site, chemical spill hazards are much more likely to happen. Spills of acids, bases, highly flammable liquids, toxic chemicals, reactive substances, oxidative agents and other hazardous chemicals can present real hazards to workers and environment. The spills can occur at production site, from a storage tank, warehouse area where chemicals are stored, during transportation, at the laboratory or during transferring operation. Spills hazards have to be identified at these workplaces and activities. The danger level of the spills depend on several factors, which include but are not limited to nature of spilled substances/chemicals (hazardous or not), spill volume, work area (well-ventilated area or not), spill location and conditions (pressure and temperature) of the spilled chemicals. When chemical spills happen, the following da