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Flammable Liquid

Liquid with a flash point below 100 deg F (37.8 0C), except mixtures where such liquids

account for 1 percent or less of the total volume.

Hazard

A chemical property, energy source, or physical condition that has the potential to cause

illness, injury, or death to personnel, or damage to property or to the environment, without

regard for the likelihood or credibility of potential accidents or the mitigation of

consequences.

Highly Hazardous Chemical

Toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive substances, as defined in Appendix A of 29 CFR

1910.119, "Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals."

Incident

An unplanned event that may or may not result in injuries and/or loss.

Near Miss

An event that did not result in an accidental release of a highly hazardous chemical, but

which could have, given another "failure." Near misses, sometimes called "precursors,"

include:

the occurrence of an accident initiator where the protection functioned properly to

preclude a release of a highly hazardous chemical; or,

the determination that a protection system was out of service such that if an initiating

event had occurred, a release of a highly hazardous chemical would have taken place.

Normally Unoccupied Remote Facility

A facility that is operated, maintained, or serviced by workers who visit the facility only

periodically to check its operation and to perform necessary operating or maintenance

tasks. No workers are regularly or permanently stationed at the facility. Such facilities are

not contiguous with, and must be geographically remote from, all other buildings,

processes, or persons. If workers spend more than 1 hour at a facility each day, that,

facility is not considered to be normally unoccupied.