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You can easily pay your membership by going to www.paypal.com and making your $20.00 membership or advertising payment to iseepnw@gmail.com.
Members Projects
Here is a link to a project that two of our members have worked on down in Colorado. Global Diving and Salvage and Wallace Technical Blasting. Check it out! If you have a project you would like our members to know about send an article or a link to your website to us at: shari@reiter-bs.com today.
From the President
The PNW Chapter of the ISEE is looking for stories for the Winter edition of our Newsletter. Please forward any stories or idea's to Shari at shari@reiter-bs.com.
The chapter still needs additional participation from blasters, drillers and users in the Pacific Northwest. We need to hear from the far corners of these three states. We are going to have a chapter meeting at the end of September - please contact us to get involved at iseepnw@gmail.com. The more the public knows about what we do as blasters the better off we all are. Send your stories, photos, questions and answers to so we can all learn from your experiences and in turn you will experience the benefits of the PNW Chapter.
Remember good communication drives safety.
Jon Andrews
When do You have to Notify the Local Fire Authority - Check out the Community-Right-To-Know Reporting Requirements
The Washington State Department of Ecology requires that storage of hazardous chemicals and substances be reported annually. This is due to the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) that was signed into federal law in 1986.
Title III of SARA is also known as the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act or the Community Right-to-Know regulation. The State of Washington adopted the federal Title III law and regulations in 1987. A State Emergency Response Commission (SERC) was established to oversee implementation of requirements imposed by SARA Title III, including the formation of the local emergency planning committees and the development of a statewide master plan for hazardous materials incident response. Title III can be described as being divided into five major sections. · Emergency Response Planning Section 302 · Emergency Release Reporting Section 304 · Hazardous Chemical Reporting Sections 311 · Tier II - Emergency & Hazardous Chemical Inventory Reporting Section 312 · Toxic Chemical Release Reporting Section 313
A business facility may be subject to one or all of the sections depending upon the types of chemicals stored, the quantities of those chemicals, and the business’ activities.
To submit written reports to the Washington State Emergency Response Commission, send it to:
Community Right-to-Know Unit Department of Ecology PO Box 47659 Olympia, WA 98504-7659
The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries has an administrative code that goes into effect February 1, 2011 requires annual notification to local fire authority. Follow this link to WAC 296-52-69040 for more information.
Pacific Northwest Chapter of the ISEE
The Chapters mission is for our members to be highly educated, technologically advanced, have low cost continuing education opportunities and to mentor the next generation of blasters, drillers and manufacturers. We also strive to help the public better understand the safe, beneficial and peaceful use of explosives in our society.
If you are a blaster, driller, manufacturer, transporter, scientist or contractor that wants to learn more about explosives technology, best practices, new tools, gain new certifications, design more effective blasts, be the first to know of proposed changes in the law and have a chance to give input, then you want to join the PNW Chapter of the ISEE.
Our National President, Jerry Wallace recently commented in "The Journal of Explosives Engineering" on the struggle that many local chapters are facing, including his own PNW Chapter. " Some (chapters) are struggling due to the distances necessary for members to travel to meetings, some because members who have always been core members have retired or moved out of the area, others struggle simply because of the economic downturn has caused people to lose their jobs within the industry and move on to other lines of work." Don't let distance, a dip in the economy or temporary career change stop you from staying current in the explosives industry.
The PNW Chapter of the ISEE wants you!
Through this website and our newsletter, we hope, are going to bridge some of the gaps of distance! And working together we can see our industry and our colleagues through these difficult economic times and reap the rewards of the recovery together but your participation, ideas and energy are required to make that happen. Become a member today! It will be the best 20 bucks you ever spent!
Pacific Northwest Chapter has a new email address
Do you have a question about the chapter? Do you need some expert advise? Email PNW ISEE at: iseepnw@gmail.com If you would like to be added to our notification email list - just send a quick email to us and your done.
