Heat energy is essential to brewing, but it can also result in life-changing injuries. In this session, gather expert advice on how to avoid and respond to kettle boilovers, scalds from hot liquids and steam, and direct contact burns.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the causes and controls of kettle boilovers and other brewery burns with hazard assessment
- Find out where the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) lands on the whole burn question
- Learn over two dozen inexpensive and effective hazard controls
- Plan for burn emergencies and learn how not to treat burns
- Leave informed and serious about burn avoidance
About the Speaker
Matt Stinchfield, Author
Matt Stinchfield (he/him) is a career occupational safety and health expert, and author of Brewery Safety: Principles, Processes, and People (Brewers Publications, 2023). For seven years he was the Brewers Association (BA) Safety Ambassador and is in his 11th year as a member of the BA Safety Subcommittee. Matt is a frequent speaker at conferences, state guilds, and webinars. He is lead instructor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)-funded Hazard Reduction Practices for Cleaning Draught Beer Lines course. Matt offers safety coaching to beverage manufacturers and their insurers. He designed and operated an award-winning 15-barrel packaging brewpub. In his spare time, Matt enjoys foraging mushrooms and wrangling trout.
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