HAZID and risk assessment on ultra-large crude oil tank
Apr 4, 2012
Fabo Yin
HAZID and risk assessment on ultra-large crude oil tank
Process Safety Competency
Developing, sustaining, and enhancing the organization’s process safety competency is one of five elements in the RBPS pillar of committing to process safety. Resources in this section relate to what process safety competency means, the attributes of process safety competency, and how organizations might enhance their own competency. Start by reading an Introduction to Process Safety Competency and then explore the resources listed below.
Process Safety Management Mentoring: Subjects to Convey and the Methods for Conveying
Apr 4, 2012
Clyde W. Young
Process Safety Management Mentoring: Subjects to Convey and the Methods for Conveying Many organizations have developed competency descriptions at various levels for personnel. These competencies generally start at awareness level and progress to more advanced levels. Process safety competency at...
Evaluation of Dust Explosion/Fire Hazards During a Process Hazards Analysis [PHA]
Apr 3, 2012
Mayur Patel
Evaluation of Dust Explosion/Fire Hazards during a Process Hazards Analysis [PHA] Mayur Patel DuPont Engineering mayur.patel@ind.dupont.com and S. Dharmavaram DuPont Engineering seshu.dharmavaram@usa.dupont.com Many of the recent dust fire and explosion incidents have shown that PHA teams have...
Process Safety Management Regulation in the United States: Have We Learned the Lessons of Bhopal?
Apr 3, 2012
Michael Wright
The author was a member of a team which traveled to Bhopal in March of 1985 and produced a report for the Indian and international trade union federations. He was subsequently involved in the legislative and regulatory efforts which led to the OSHA Process Safety Management Standard. That standard...
How to Go From Lesson to Learned: PSM From Engineering to Operations
Apr 3, 2012
Chitram Lutchman
How to go from Lesson to Learned: PSM from Engineering to Operations Presented By: Dr. Chit Lutchman (CSP; CRSP, 1 st Class Power Engineer) PSM and other Human Factor considerations have improved reliability of many operating facilities across many different industries. Similarly, significant...
Auto Refrigeration and Metal Embrittlement
Apr 3, 2012
Tys Koerts
Abstract AIChE Housten Conference April 1-4 2012 Loss Of Containment Protection Auto Refrigeration and Metal Embrittlement Tys Koerts Sr. Process Safety Consultant Auto-refrigeration occurs on adiabatic expansion of gasses and boiling of liquids. The resulting low temperature can bring metals like...
The Structured What If/Checklist A New Twist On An Old Approach
Apr 3, 2012
C. Curtis Clements
The purpose of Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) is to identify and understand the hazards associated with the process being reviewed, to understand the potential resultant hazardous events, and to prevent those events by identifying all the potential routes to those events and ensuring that adequate...
Process Safety - Management or Leadership?
Apr 3, 2012
Charles J. King
Process Safety Management is often presented as technically complex, requiring a large staff of engineers and specialists with an array of tools and techniques that appear to grow in intricacy and sophistication year by year. Large companies are generally well positioned to operate in this arena –...
An Introduction to Assessing Process Hazards
Apr 3, 2012
Seshu Dharmavaram
A surprising number of process incidents occur due to a lack of general understanding of process hazards and lack of basic hazards assessment, subsequently resulting in the absence of or inadequate Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) to provide appropriate safeguards for minimizing process risks...
Challenges in Applying PSM to Production Pilot Plants & Laboratories
Apr 3, 2012
Bruce D. Bullough
The CordenPharma Colorado, Inc. (CPC) site in Boulder includes at least eight production facilities. The majority (six) are production laboratories and pilot plants, with synthesizers and vessels of a few liters to a few thousand liters. All of the production process systems are connected to at...
Implementation of a Highly Toxic Materials Management Program
Apr 2, 2012
Ravi Ramaswamy
Process Safety Management (PSM) is defined as the application of management systems and controls (programs, procedures, audits, evaluations) to a manufacturing or chemical process in a way that process hazards are identified, understood, and controlled so that process-related injuries and incidents...
Structure of Process Safety in the Operating Plants ñ Leaders of Management and Analysis of Risks and Impacts
Apr 2, 2012
Marcus VinÌcius dos S Machado
BRASKEM within the production process developed a framework and Analysis of Impacts and Risk Management Process which seeks to ensure that the risk acceptability criteria are met and developed throughout the life cycle of projects and facilities, from conceptual design to work of construction or...
Learning from an Industrial Chemical Perspective
Apr 2, 2012
Jack Mc Cavit
Learning from an industrial chemical perspective
Improving the Performance of Established PSM Programs
Apr 2, 2012
James A. Klein
Many facilities have now implemented and maintained PSM programs for 20 years or more, but these facilities continue to have sometimes serious incidents and injuries suggesting a continuing need to improve their PSM performance. Of course, new requirements are often added to upgrade PSM programs,...
Social HAZOP At Oil Refine Industry
Apr 2, 2012
Salvador ¡vila Filho
Introduction Maintenance of process safety in the industry several tools are used such as Risk Analysis, Failure mode and events Analysis (FMEA), a Hazard operability analysis (HAZOP), Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA), and Mapping Risk. Each tool or technique, if used at the right time can prevent...
Safety System Impairments and the Need to Manage Peak Risk
Apr 2, 2012
David K. Lewis
The catastrophic incident which occurred at Bhopal is often referenced with respect to inherent safety issues. Did intermediate chemicals need to be present? Should the neighboring community start at the fence line? Although likely not as important as the above fundamental considerations, the...
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