Design - Educating the Next Generation of PSM Professionals
Apr 2, 2012
Daniel Crowl
Design - PSM Education
Commitment to Process Safety
The Cornerstone of process safety excellence. A workforce that is actively involved and an organization that fully supports process safety as a core value will tend to do the right things in the right ways at the right times-even when no one else is looking.
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...
The CCPS Reactivity Evaluation Software Tool
Apr 2, 2012
Edward M. Davis
Incidents involving uncontrolled chemical reactions continue to result in injuries, fatalities and economic loss and harm in industry. These incidents are often the result of not identifying or understanding the chemical reactivity hazards involved in storage, mixing or processing operations. The...
Avoiding Common PHA Mistakes
Apr 2, 2012
Glenn Young
OSHA's National Emphasis Program (NEP) on refineries has concluded. The two most cited elements of the Process Safety Management standard (PSM - 1910.119) in the NEP were Mechanical Integrity and Process Hazard Analysis (PHA). [1] This session will focus on common problems in PHA and how to avoid...
Flammability Limits of HYDROGEN and ITS MIXTURES with Hydrocarbons In AIR AT Atmospheric and SUB-Atmospheric PRESSURES
Apr 2, 2012
Hai Le
FLAMMABILITY LIMITS OF HYDROGEN AND ITS MIXTURES WITH HYDROCARBONS IN AIR AT ATMOSPHERIC AND SUB-ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURES Hai Le, Subramanya Nayak, M. Sam Mannan The knowledge of hydrogen flammability characteristics, especially flammability limits, is of particular importance and interest because of...
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...
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...
Half a Century of Olefin Plant Accidents: The Role of Mechanical Integrity
Apr 2, 2012
Sebastian Diaz
Sebastian Diaz, Aon energy Risk Engineering, League City, TX. Email: sebastian.diaz@aon.com Russ Davis, CSP Aon Energy Risk Engineering, League City, TX. Email: russ.davis@aon.com Keywords: mechanical integrity, loss of containment, major accidents Abstract Since OSHA's Process Safety Management...
Prediction of Corrosion in Pipes
Apr 2, 2012
Sally S. Nicola
ABSTRACT AIChE Spring 2012 Meeting Prediction of Corrosion in Pipes Sally Nicola, Victor Carreto, Ray A. Mentzer, M. Sam Mannan Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University sally.nicola@neo.tamu.edu Corrosion is one of the most important mechanical integrity issues the...
Are Your Credits Worthy?
Apr 2, 2012
Lisa Long
Chemical and petrochemical manufacturing processes can be subject to high consequence, low frequency events. Process Safety Management programs are intended to identify and eliminate or manage the hazards associated with these events. In recent years, industry has increasingly turned to...
Retired and Dangerous
Apr 2, 2012
Robert F. Wasileski
“Planning not to retire is simply not a viable retirement strategy.” — Catherine Collinson, Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies The Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA) process is an important component of a facility's strategy to managing the risks associated with process...
The US Chemical Safety Board and Inherently Safer Technology
Apr 2, 2012
Manuel R. Gomez
The United State (US) Chemical Safety Board (CSB) was created by the same legislation that mandated the regulation of high hazard industries by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Process Safety Management (PSM) and the Risk...
Assimilating Design Formulation and Design Review Into a HAZOP (For certain types of capital projects, it will happen anyhow, so structure the HAZOP and plan for it)
Apr 2, 2012
Steven T. Maher
There have been numerous guidebooks written for the application of Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) Studies [1] to operating facilities and capital projects where the design is relatively mature. For these systems, critical process safety information is typically available, but for fast-moving...
Improving Conduct of Operations Using Best Practice Tools From Operating, Engineering, and Management Discipline
Apr 2, 2012
Jerry Forest
Improving Conduct of Operations Using Best Practice Tools from Operating, Engineering, and Management Discipline Jerry Forest Global Process Safety Manager Celanese 1601 West LBJ Freeway Dallas, TX 75234 (214) 417-1920 Jerry.forest@celanese.com Abstract Conduct of operations concerns how work is...
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...
Recognizing Catastrophic Incident Warning Signs in the Process Industries
November, 2011
This book provides guidance on characterizing, recognizing, and responding to warning signs to help avoid process incidents and injuries before they occur. The guidance can be used by both process safety management (PSM) professionals in evaluating their processes and PSM systems as well as for...
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