process safety Articles
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Organizational Process Safety: Taking Process Safety to the Next Level
There are many models for process safety management that have evolved since the late 80s. Most companies involved in manufacture, storage, use, and transportation of highly hazardous chemicals have adopted one or more versions of these models, and yet we continue to see many serious and catastrophic incidents each year. This white paper illustrates a model that identifies elements from the ...
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EMEA Safety in Action Conference - New Speaker Announced
EMEA Safety in Action Conference Process Safety Track October, 21st & 22nd in Antwerp Raise Standards in Your Process Safety Performance Convert Innovative and High-Level Insight from recognised Global Leaders and Experienced Professionals in Process Safety into improved safety performance on your site at the first Process Safety Track during the 2015 EMEA Safety in Action™ ...
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Overview of risk based process safety
Process safety practices and formal safety management systems have been in place in some companies for many years. Process safety management (PSM) is widely credited reductions in major accident risk and in mproved chemical industry performance. Nevertheless, many organizations continue to be challenged by inadequate managementsystem performance, resource pressures and stagnant process safety ...
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The essentiality of process-safety management
Untitled Document Loss of Life in the workplace is a tragedy of enormous proportion. One of the tools the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) uses to eliminate workplace disasters is the Process Safety Management (PSM) standard issued in 1992. Questions have arisen about whether the standard is sufficient and whether it should be amended. The Chemical ...
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5 Creative & Fun Ways to Keep Safety Top-of-Mind
The most successful EHS programs are those that are part of company culture and actively engage employees in the process. Safety does not have to seem like a chore or even boring. Engage your employees with using creative, funny or interesting art throughout the facility. Of course, safety is no joke, but it's nice to take a moment every once in a while and see the lighter side. Here are some ...
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Good Intentions Aren’t Enough: Improving process safety leadership
A major global chemical company with a good reputation for safety was recently called out by Dr. David Michaels, the head of OSHA, who said: “[This company] promotes itself as having a ‘world-class safety’ culture and even markets its safety expertise to other employers, but these four preventable workplace deaths and the very serious hazards we uncovered at this facility are ...
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Process safety culture: Why is it so important?
Since the introduction of the OSHA process safety management (PSM) standard (29 CFR 1910.119) in 1992, companies have committed considerable effort and expense to developing PSM programs. Unfortunately, serious incidents and audits all too frequently point to gaps in PSM implementation. In the new book, “Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety,” the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) ...
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Culture – the key to sustainable process safety performance
What is culture? Some companies wonder why they keep experiencing the same process safety problems. Others wonder why they have plateaued in process safety performance. Culture is KEY. It is the individual and organizational 'DNA' that represents our tendency to want to do (1) the right thing (2) in the right way (3) at the right time, (4) ALL the time – even when no one is looking.The safety ...
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Process safety culture: Why is it so important?
Since the introduction of the OSHA process safety management (PSM) standard (29 CFR 1910.119) in 1992, companies have committed considerable effort and expense to developing PSM programs. Unfortunately, serious incidents and audits all too frequently point to gaps in PSM implementation. In the new book, “Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety,” the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) ...
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A risk-based approach to process safety makes (dollars and) sense
Process safety practices and formal safety management systems have been in place in some companies for many years. Process safety management is widely credited for reductions in major accident risk and in improved chemical industry performance. Unfortunately, traditional process safety management programs are typically based on implementing a standard set of requirements that, in some situations, ...
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Using risk-based process safety in contractor selection
As companies continue to leverage their resources on an ever-wider range of products and services, the number of projects (and contractors) managed will drive the need for a standard approach to contractor selection. Although time is often spent reviewing contractor qualifications for accomplishing the job scope, employers sometimes pay little or no attention to the overall safety record of the ...
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E&P facilities: Using risk-based process safety applications
Process safety and major accident prevention practices for offshore exploration and production (E&P) facilities vary somewhat around the globe. In the United Kingdom, the Safety Case is “king.” Elsewhere, quantitative risk analysis (QRA) is widely used during the design process to ensure that fire and explosion risk areas are identified and either inherently safer measures are integrated into the ...
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The NEP may prove costly to process safety
Both the U.S. Chemical Safety Board BP investigation report and the Baker Panel report were critical of OSHA’s lack of enforcement in the refining sector. OSHA data indicates that U.S. refineries have experienced 36 fatal or catastrophic incidents since 1992, representing more incidents than have occurred in the next three closest chemical industrial groups combined. On March 22, Congress ...
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It’s Time to Prepare for an OSHA PSM Inspection
Companies who are required to comply with OSHA’s Process Safety Management standard (1910:119) should be on high alert now that inspectors are being encouraged to complete more time-consuming, complex investigations. The reason? OSHA’s new enforcement weighting system. Prior to this year, OSHA inspectors were measured on one primary metric: the number of inspections they completed. ...
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PHASUITE: AN AUTOMATED HAZOP ANALYSIS TOOL FOR CHEMICAL PROCESSES
INTRODUCTION Safety is an important issue in process design and operation in chemical industry. It is even more critical for modern chemical manufacturing processes, which are either operated under extreme conditions to achieve maximum economic profit, or are highly flexible, such as the specialty chemical or pharmaceutical processes. The importance of safety analysis in process ...
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BST Presents Eight Critical Safety Issues at the 2015 Safety in Action® Conference
We're proud to unveil the eight safety issues facing organizations today at this year's Safety in Action Conference in Orlando, Florida. Based on our experience in the field, we've selected these issues for their potential to affect the future of safety practice and performance. Their solutions will require the insight of employees at every level of the organization. Join us March 19-21 as we ...
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Advantages of Low Charge Ammonia Systems for Operator Training & Regulatory Compliance
Operator training has become one of the most prevalent areas of deficiency in Process Safety Management (PSM) Programs for refrigeration systems today. High turnover in the refrigeration industry coupled with high complexity system designs and an increasing void of technicians trained in foundational trades are the perfect storm for compliance challenges among operators of large refrigeration ...
By Evapco Inc.
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OSHA National Emphasis Programs — Status and future
As reported in a previous article (“The NEP may prove costly to process safety,” BIC magazine, August 2007), OSHA published a refinery National Emphasis Program (NEP) under compliance directive CPL 03-00-004 in June 2007, and began inspections. As of mid-April, a compilation of industry data showed seven NEP inspections complete with citations issued, two more complete and waiting on citations ...
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BST Presents Eight Critical Safety Issues at the 2015 Safety in Action® Conference
We're proud to unveil the eight safety issues facing organizations today at this year's Safety in Action Conference in Orlando, Florida. Based on our experience in the field, we've selected these issues for their potential to affect the future of safety practice and performance. Their solutions will require the insight of employees at every level of the organization. Join us March 19-21 as we ...
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Are your MI and reliablility programs competing for resources?
A number of refineries and chemical processing facilities have not yet realized the potential synergy between regulatory-driven mechanical integrity (MI) programs and facility-wide reliability programs. The tendency at many facilities is to keep these two initiatives separate, which typically results in a competition for precious maintenance and inspection resources as well as management ...
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