Good luck with eliminating the dust!

So all the mills run around for a few days and try up comply. Why don’t they do a few surprise inspections instead of announcing it? I guess they don’t want to be responsible for shutting down a few more mills.

“Our Prevention officers will be paying particular attention to …… preventative maintenance of equipment and dust extraction systems, and each operating location’s plan to achieve sustainable compliance with wood dust management into the future.”

All those do not need an unannounced visit. A mill either has the right equipment or not plus the records of when it was installed and the maintenance schedule. Each mill either has a plan to meet requirements if they do not at this time, or they do not have such a plan.

If they do not have a plan right now, the announced inspections may get them off their butts.

The surprise inspections will happen later, primarily to the ones which have not met an expected standard.

Controlling the fine dust that results from the handling of beetle kill pine is proving to be a real challenge, and one that has not been met, thus far. Much work has been done at the sawmills owned by major players (not sure what has been done at the smaller mills) Even with a lot of money spent on new systems, and modifications to older systems, the dust still escapes and hangs in the air, or sticks to the boards until it is jarred free, in both cases eventually settling on some horizontal surface. At that point, physical removal is the only option, and they are doing this on a somewhat regular basis. The nature of sawmill design means that the wood is in the open air of the plant nearly all of its time through the mill. If the entire process was enclosed (unlikely, for many reasons) then there would be a good chance of containing most of the fine dust. But the bottom line is, the bottom line. There is still money to be made in the sawmill business, if not, there would not be any sawmill businesses.
metalman.

Anyone know when they are going to publicly release the investigation whole report into the Babine Forest Products Mill explosion?

They didn’t want to release it before the May elections but we are well past that. Still using some possible criminal court case as a lame excuse I suppose!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/union-calls-for-release-of-full-report-on-burns-lake-explosion-1.1388355

They won’t release it until crown council has made their determinations and a court case has proceeded. This has nothing to do with politics as WCB operates under an independent board of directors that isn’t influenced or controlled by politics. Nice try on putting a left wing nut bar approach to this!!

The safety authority as mentioned in the cbc article is a seperate body from WCB and operates under government. However their role in a sawmill explosion would be to investigate things like pressure vessel and pipe line failures where WCB would look at the overall operating conditions.

No of course this has nothing to do with politics northman; this is from the link in my previous comment;

“In a leaked memo dated January 2013, BCSA vice president Phil Gothe cites a teleconference with B.C. cabinet ministers Rich Coleman, Pat Bell and Shirley Bond.

The memo also asked recipients, including members of the safety authority board, to “immediately destroy any copies, excerpts or references to BCSA’s investigation report to prevent inadvertent disclosure.”

Yup a meeting between three politicians who made the determination to destroy any copies of the report, all on their own, no lawyers present, nope no politics here hey? (sarcasm).

It says ” copies to be destroyed” this does not mean the original investigation reports an documents which are required to be retained by law. It would be bennificial for you to check your sources especially if its been quoted in the media.