Paul Stanford Kupakuwana Cpeng

How to Prevent Grain Silo Fire and Explosion Risk Paul Stanford Kupakuwana Cpeng

This book begins by describing grain dust and its potential to create a hazard in a grain silo leading to explosions. It then discusses the explosion that occurred at the Grain Marketing Board's Lions Den Silo, near Chinhoyi in Zimbabwe in 2018, and which caused four deaths, injuries to some personnel and significant damage to property. It then examines the immediate possible causes of the fire release and the response of the Zimbabwe government to it. The book then draws broader conclusions about the need to develop new methodologies of risk and loss limitation, which are especially appropriate to silos, in which health and safety plays a significant role.