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  1. What Every New Engineer Needs to Know about Process Safety

    Course | AIChE Academy
    process safety Equipment Risk Management Critical Analysis RCEP English AIChE Academy ELA154 ... eLearning (online) Course Course Category  Process Safety Phillip R. Hodge Gain the process safety knowledge ... process safety is, why it is important and its applications in the process industries.  Process safety is ...

  2. Basic Emergency Relief System Design

    Course | AIChE Academy
    Process Design Development process safety Emergency Management Venting Relief Safe Design RCEP ... English AIChE Academy CH172 Face-to-Face Course Course Category  Process Safety Todd Brandes Rahul Raman ... to start? Attend this instructor-led, 3-day course for an introduction to pressure relief safety ...

  3. Process Safety Beacon: What Is an Acceptable LEL Detector Reading?

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    courtesy of the U.K. Health and Safety Executive. A storage tank exploded as a vacuum truck was emptying it ... interrupted for weeks. The workers had not expected to find flammable vapor in the tank. Due to a process ... tank. The accident had several contributing factors, but this Beacon focuses on gas detection. The ...

  4. Process Safety Beacon: Get Out and Stay Out

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 April ▲ Employees evacuated from a food processing facility after a fatal nitrogen release. ... from an immersion freezer located inside a food processing facility in Gainesville, GA. Six employees ... Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) report No. 2021-03-I-GA for more information about the ...

  5. Process Safety Beacon: The Agitator Stopped! Now What?

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    others. See the August 2018 Beacon on agitator failure for more information. Process hazard analyses ... Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation (CSB) report No. 2021-04-I-OH for more information. A flammable ... Certain process steps, such as sampling, may require the agitator to be temporarily stopped. Operating ...

  6. Process Safety Beacon Manage Temporary Changes — Including Clamps

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 July ▲ Pipe clamps can temporarily fix a leaking valve. Image courtesy of the Process Safety ... Beacon Committee. A plant experienced a piping leak and could not shut down to properly repair it. Using ... be managed under the company’s management of change (MOC) process. Best practice is to enter ...

  7. Process Safety Beacon: Recent Nitrogen Fatalities Are a Vivid Reminder

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    Process Safety Beacons related to nitrogen hazards, such as the April 2004, December 2006, August 2007, ... 2021 April On January 28, 2021, a liquid nitrogen leak occurred at a poultry processing plant in ... isolation valve, stopping the flow of liquid nitrogen to the process and likely preventing further ...

  8. Process Safety Beacon: Maintain a Sense of Vulnerability

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    a sense of vulnerability is an essential characteristic of a good process safety culture. What Can You Do? ... you safe. An employee walking through a process area that handled sulfuric acid noticed an operator ... nearest safety shower. Unknown to the operator, sulfuric acid had backed up into the nitrogen hose. When ...

  9. Process Safety Beacon: Toxic Gases Require Special Precautions

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    times more than the cable load capacity,” and the required safety measures for dealing with the ... dangerous work. In some companies and countries, a formal lift plan is required. A future Beacon will cover ... the essential elements of lift plans and safety practices for heavy lifts in areas where highly ...

  10. Process Safety Beacon: Communication — The Heart of Safe Operations

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    incident, many of the process safety systems we use now were not yet in place. Lockout/tagout (LOTO) was ... 2022 October ▲ Flowmeters require periodic calibration. Be sure to always follow proper safety ... procedures. An inexperienced operator was running a process that involved regular transfers of flammable ...

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