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Incident Investigation- Addressing Common Oversights

Mar 14, 2011
Julie D. White
Principles of incident investigation may be used in daily process troubleshooting and near miss events to identify root cause. Identifying and correcting daily process issues intervenes with the natural escalation to near miss events and incident investigations. Fundamentals of root cause analysis...

Management of Change (MOC) Basics for Plant Engineers

Mar 14, 2011
R. Wayne Garland
The essentials of Management of Change (MOC) for plant engineers will be presented. The meaning of MOC will be explained and its central role in safe plant operation will be shown, including how it fits with other aspects of plant safety. The objectives of MOC will be discussed along with the...

How to Develop Effective Safety Training? A Lifecycle Approach

Mar 14, 2011
Shay Segev
Safety training is one of the most important tools for upgrading the safety level and for minimizing the likelihood and the consequences of accidents. However, as the cost involved is high (most of the training cost is usually associated with its participants time), it is highly important that the...

Systematic Workforce Involvement In Process Safety

Mar 14, 2011
Cory D. Shelton
Workforce involvement is an essential element of effective process safety management. This paper will describe proven methods of workforce involvement in process safety. An assessment will then be described to evaluate the use and quality of applying these methods. Critical success factors are...

Improvement of BLEVE Overpressure Method Using Historical Data

Mar 13, 2011
Fei Chen
The current CCPS/TNO's BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) overpressure methodology is derived from that published by Baker in 1975. This methodology assumes isentropic expansion work and uses Baker's graphical method and high-explosive correlation to calculate BLVE energy and...

Process Safety Performance Tool

Mar 13, 2011
Clarissa Sossmeier da Silva, Pablo Ricardo Barrera
The process safety management in a petrochemical company is a key factor for sustainability, since intends to prevent or minimize the consequences of a major accident due to a release of flammable, combustible, or toxic substance from a process. Maintaining and improving a process safety management...

Management of Change (MOC) Auditing System

Mar 13, 2011
R. Wayne Garland
Our company has discovered that regular auditing of the MOC process is essential to enforcing its proper use. We have developed an audit that can be performed by plant personnel to identify the effectiveness of our MOC process in 2 critical categories: (1) Identifying changes and initiating MOC for...

Quantitative Models for Assessing MOC Performance

Mar 13, 2011
Rainer Hoff
The safety community, bolstered by the PSM regulations, has emphasized the importance of proper management of change to ensure safe, reliable and economic operation of chemical plants and refineries. Yet, at many sites, the MOC process is often harshly criticized as being "too inefficient", "too...

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