Recently, SCAFCO Grain Systems’ Vice President, Dan Wambeke, attended the International Association of Operative Millers’ annual IAOM Pacific, Intermountain, and Golden West Tri-District Meeting and Technical Conference as a key speaker. This year, the meeting was held in Park City, Utah. Dan was able to arrange his schedule to arrive directly from East Africa. where he had been calling on SCAFCO Grain Systems customers. Dan spoke to the group of milling professionals about avoiding catastrophes and preventing injuries in grain bins.
Only a few weeks later, Dan boarded an airplane once again. This time he flew to St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA, for Kansas State University’s and Minnesota Grain & Feed Association’s Combustible Grain Dust Workshop. The workshop provided information about dust control, how explosions start and what can be done to prevent them. The group engaged in an in-depth discussion about the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) specific grain handling and grain dust explosion standard. Included in the workshop was a demonstration of a grain dust explosion.