(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 ...

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 ...

Think plastic containers are safe for storing just about anything? Let's be real, that's a dangerous assumption. Fire safety ...

Not more than ten (10) gallons of combined Class I plus Class II liquids should be outside of an approved flammable storage container. This means that 10 gallons can be out and everything else must be ...

Storing items safely is something I didn’t always pay enough attention to, especially when fire safety was concerned. Over time, I learned that even small mistakes in how things are stored can lead to ...

The primary goals of safe chemical storage are to reduce risk by minimizing quantities of chemicals stored, avoiding contact between incompatible chemicals, and preventing hazardous storage conditions ...

Segregate bases from acids, metals, explosives, organic peroxides and easily ignitable materials. Do not store aqueous sodium and potassium hydroxide solutions in aluminum drip trays. These will ...

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 ...