Technical Presentations

Learning from experience is one of the four pillars of Risk-Based Process Safety. Incidents that occur at one facility often provide opportunities to strengthen management systems at other facilities. Sharing the technical lessons learned from incidents is morally right and vital to improving...

Catastrophic incident root causes often may be correlated with power outages. An unanticipated power outage may be an initiating event that leads to a process upset or even an emergency shutdown of a process unit. If the planning and implementation of the emergency shutdown are managed incorrectly...

Damage Level Matrix and Damage Curves for Buildings in Petrochemical Facilities One important component of a Facility Siting Study is the prediction of building response due to blast loading. Commonly used building damage criteria for siting studies are the ones published in ASCE's ?Design of Blast...

Interrelacion Entre Process Safety y el Proceso APELL para la prevecion de accidentes.

This investigation by the United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) provides unique lessons in process safety. Three incidents occurred over a 33-hour period at the DuPont plant in Belle, WV. The most serious incident occurred on January 23, 2010, when a release of highly...

Process Safety Management Plus or Minus 20 Years - What I Wish I'd Known 20 Years Ago and What We Can't Wait Another 20 Years to Learn Abstract of proposed presentation to the Global Congress on Process Safety: Houston - April, 2012 Presenter: Alan C. (Al) Brackey, Senior Manager PSM Audit - Valero...