Aug 26- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued citations to Calumet Shreveport Lubricants & Waxes LLC in Shreveport, La., for 22 alleged serious violations and two alleged repeat violations of federal health and safety regulations. Penalties total $173,000.
Dorinda Folse, OSHA's area director in Baton Rouge, La., said it's not the first time the company has been flagged for jeopardizing employee safety

Aug 25- Personal injury claim for worker after accident at work.A worker who was caught in the Buncefield oil plant explosion is seeking accident compensation. This comes after an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) concluded last month and found five firms guilty of breaking health and safety regulations in relation to the accident.As a result, the companies – which included petrol firm Total – had to pay £9.5m in fines.

WASHINGTON, August 23, 2010—The American Petroleum Institute announced it would provide free online public access to a large group of key industry standards, including a broad range of safety standards.  This expands the number of API standards that will be available for free.  A smaller number are now available to the public for free on API’s website while others can be reviewed in person in government agency offices.

Aug18,BRIDGEPORT – A lawyer for a New Jersey man said a $6 million federal lawsuit has been filed against four companies as a result of injuries from the Kleen Energy Power Plant explosion last Super Bowl Sunday.

Aug 12- Beleaguered oil giant BP has agreed to pay a record 50.6 million US dollar (£32.5 million) fine for safety failings at its Texas City oil refinery after a 2005 explosion which killed 15 workers. The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said it was still working to collect another 30 million US dollars (£19.3 million) for other penalties the company is contesting.

Aug 10, HONG KONG - While BP, responsible for the largest oil spill in history, has been pilloried all summer for its carelessness in the Gulf of Mexico, environmental disasters in China keep adding up - but no one will step up and take the blame. Indeed, the Chinese leadership may owe BP a letter of thanks: The five million barrels of oil that have despoiled the gulf since the company's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April served to divert world attention from the ongoing environmental troubles in China.

Aug 5, MIDDLETOWN — The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) announced Thursday that it has fined three separate companies a total of $16 million dollars after an extensive investigation revealed more than 370 violations at the Kleen Energy Power Plant, which exploded in February.

Aug 5, ORONO - A successful plan to resume deepwater oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and prevent even greater dependence on imports must do more than make a case that the moratorium on drilling threatens to worsen our nation's energy security.

PHOENIX, August 02, 2010 – Process safety and environmental impact took center stage at the Abnormal Situation Management (ASM) Consortium’s 2010 Quarterly Review Meeting, held at the University of California at Los Angeles. Members of the consortium – which include a wide range of industrial manufacturers,vendors, and universities that collaborate to research best practices for managing abnormal situations in industrial facilities – gathered for the week-long event to discuss current research and development activities.