Dust Mitigation Safety Course: Vital for Tissue Makers, Tissue360º Fall/Winter 2024

Dust mitigation in tissue production might sound like a somewhat dull subject; however, add the words explosion, fire, injuries, and death and it suddenly becomes extremely interesting. In fact, far from a dull subject, mitigating and managing dust in a tissue mill is a vital activity for the health and safety of personnel and maintaining maximum efficiency and uptime. To help deal with what is an increasing threat, TAPPISAFE recently launched a dedicated online safety course for dust mitigation in tissue mills and beyond.

The statistics speak for themselves: according to TAPPI’s Dust Mitigation Committee, over the last 20 years there have been 200 dust explosions, 600 injuries and 100 fatalities. Bud Chase, VP Tissue at EDT, and founder of TAPPI’s Dust Mitigation Committee, says: “Throughout my whole career I have seen numerous fires; they are common at tissue mills and are fueled by the build-up of dust from the tissue making process. In fact, some large tissue producers with many mill sites can have a fire somewhere every single day due to dust buildup. This is why we decided to focus on dust mitigation and in 2020 we formed the dedicated committee at TAPPI.”

TAPPI conference proceedings and presentations, technical papers, and publication articles provide technical and management data and solutions on topics covering the Pulp, Paper, Tissue, Corrugated Packaging, Flexible Packaging, Nanotechnology and Converting Industries.

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