Question 195Safety & Environmental - QMED

The correct answer is A) oil soaked rags are stowed in the machine shop. Oil-soaked rags can pose a significant fire hazard due to the risk of spontaneous combustion. When rags become saturated with oil, the oxidation process can generate enough heat to ignite the rags, even without an external ignition source. This makes proper stowage and disposal of oil-soaked rags an important safety consideration in a machine shop or other areas where such materials are present. The other options, while also potentially hazardous, do not specifically relate to the risk of spontaneous combustion. Dry metal turnings and powdered aluminum can be fire hazards, but they do not share the same spontaneous ignition risk as oil-soaked rags.