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1 Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association 1. Call To Order AGENDA OF THE CEMA ENGINEERING CONFERENCE BULK HANDLING SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING Monday, June 24, :00 PM 2. Roll Call and Introductions 3. Approval of Agenda 4. Approval of Minutes from Safety Committee Meeting June 25, (Attached) 5. Old Items a. Risk Assessment follow up Frank Loeffler / Todd Swinderman i. ASME B20.1 ii. Belt Book Todd Swinderman b. Spill Guarding for Bulk Handling Conveyors Frank Loeffler i. Best Practices document (Attached) (Form Committee) ii. Belt Book Todd Swinderman c. Backstop Safety Gary Brewer d. Fall Protection (Form Committee) i. Safety Label ii. Best Practices Document 6. New Items a. Review of changes in B20.1 for return idler guarding Frank Loeffler (Attached) i. Should we develop a best practices for return idler guarding b. Suggestions for areas needing attention 7. Next Meeting June 23, 2014 LaPlaya Hotel, Naples, FL 8. Adjourn THE VOICE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONVEYOR INDUSTRY

Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association MINUTES OF THE CEMA ENGINEERING CONFERENCE BULK HANDLING SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING 1. Chairman Frank Loeffler, Jr.

2 Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association MINUTES OF THE CEMA ENGINEERING CONFERENCE BULK HANDLING SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING 1. Chairman Frank Loeffler, Jr. called the meeting to order at 1:30 PM on Monday, June 25, Fifty one people were in attendance. The Attendance List is at the end of these minutes. 2. The Draft Agenda was approved. 3. The Minutes of the June 2011 Safety Committee Meeting were approved. 4. Old Items Risk Assessment. A common formal risk assessment process for CEMA was discussed. There was agreement that formal risk assessment has arrived and is becoming a requirement more often than not. While there is a requirement, there is no agreed upon process for conducting risk assessment. The possibility that one could be developed by the ASME B20.1 committee and adopted by CEMA was discussed. The consensus was that B20.1 is a performance standard that could state the requirement but was not suitable to be a working program document. B11 TR3 is a risk assessment program document but it was agreed that it is for machines, not conveying systems and, without a program document suited to conveyors systems, accessories, and components, there is a risk that B11 TR3 might be forced upon the conveying industry at some time in the near future. Both the Unit Handling book committee and the Belt Book Committee are working on risk assessment chapters for the next editions. It was that whatever documents are produced, they should be uniform across all CEMA Sections, Unit, Bulk Belt Conveyors, Screw and Bucket Elevators, Accessories, and Components. The proposed approach is that the basic common document will cover overall practice. It would consist of common Severity Categories, Mishap Probability Categorization, and Mishap Risk Assessment matrices. Annexes will be devoted by the sections to identify the unique known hazards, or hazardous situations, items, or events associated with their products along with risk reduction strategies. Commitments: Robin Steven will provide Todd Swinderman with information on Belts. Todd Swinderman will provide link to download the full draft chapter on Risk Assessment in the Belt Book. Unit and Belt Book Committees will coordinate their draft documents via correspondence. Target will be no later than Fall Meeting. Spill Guarding for Bulk Handling Conveyors The Unit Handling Section has produced a good best practices recommendation for crossing over conveyors. Two of the four crossovers are suitable for adoption for Bulk Belt Conveyors and will be adopted for inclusion in the Belt Book. What is missing for Bulk Belt Conveyors is a set of best practices recommendations for crossing under those conveyors. After much discussion it was concluded as follows: Australia and Canada have excellent standards for cross-unders. For purposes of the Belt Book, CEMA will adapt so Theme of their recommendations, with attribution, for inclusion in the safety THE VOICE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONVEYOR INDUSTRY

3 annexes of the Belt Book. There is an need for some recommended practices for spill protection as well as ideas for how to identify cross under points along the length of cross country conveyors. Those ideas will also be adapted from the Australian and Canadian standards as a start. 5. New Items a. Safety Lighting Maintenance System Recommendation Pivot Poles for Conveyor Stanchion Lights were discussed as a safer alternative for replacing those bulbs. b. A Review of the 2012 changes incorporated into ASME B-20.1 was conducted. Chairman Loeffler pointed out that the majority of the changes were made to support the inclusion of a discussion of running nip points for Pipe/Tube Conveyors. Copies of the affected change pages were distributed and will be an attachment to these minutes. c. Back Stop Safety There is apparently no good source of information on how/when to inspect Backstops with a view to reducing the probability of their failure which can cause very dangerous safety issues on a Bulk Belt Conveying System. After much excellent discussion, it was decided that it would be within the resources of CEMA members to provide valuable information in this area and supplement chapters 6 and 13. Commitments: Gary Brewer, Raul Morales and Todd Hollingsworth will provide Todd Swinderman data by August. Todd Swinderman will send them drafts of Chapters 13 and 6 for them to edit and provide suggested best practices in this area. d. Fall Protection There is a need to alert maintenance personnel of the need to use safety tethers when conducting operations on Bulk Belt Conveyors. The idea of developing safety signs or labels to remind them was discussed. This idea will be developed at future meetings. e. There was a vote to see if we should keep separate Unit and Bulk Handling Safety Committees or have only a Joint Committee. The consensus was that the Joint Committee should stay so that the Unit and Bulk Sections can coordinate better on safety matters of joint interest. The Unit and Bulk Sub-Committees should continue as venues to allow work o safety topics of specific interest to those sections where needed. 6. Potential Topics for Next Year's Engineering Conference Seminar Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (step one before Risk Analysis begins) 7. Next Meeting June 24, 2013 LaPlaya Hotel, Naples, FL 8. Adjourn: There being no further business, the committee adjourned at 3:25 p.m. Respectfully Submitted Frank Loeffler, Chair Atch: Summary of ASME B20-1 Changes for THE VOICE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONVEYOR INDUSTRY

Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association

Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association MINUTES OF THE CEMA ENGINEERING CONFERENCE BULK BELT SYSTEMS & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES COMMITTEE Tuesday, June 27, 2017 1. Meeting called to order at 2:12 pm