Sept. 29, 2011: MCAA Releases Safety Training Kit on Safe Line Breaking
ROCKVILLE, Md. — The Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) has released Breaking the Line: Best Practices for Safe Line Breaking, the latest addition to the association’s safety training kit series that provides a worker safety training video, take-away pocket guides with key points from the training, a documentation mechanism to assist contractors in documenting which workers have received the training, and a test to assist in verifying that workers understand the materials.
“Line breaking, or the intentional opening of a closed piping system, can be tricky because piping systems can carry substances that are flammable, toxic, corrosive, scalding and/or under extreme pressure,” said Tom Skaggs, chairman of MCAA’s Safety and Health Committee and vice president – safety for the Murphy Company. “It’s smart to establish and follow the best safe work practices available, and this new safety training kit makes that easy.”