Incident Investigation

Developing, sustaining, and enhancing the organization's incident investigation competency is one of four elements in the RBPS pillar of learning from experience. The characteristics of an effective incident program and how organizations might begin to enhance their own incident investigation process, can be found in this Introduction to Incident Investigation.

More information regarding incident investigation, check out CCPS' Guidelines on learning from experience.

Case Histories and Lessons Learned

Apr 29, 2009

Delmar Morrison, Mark Kaszniak, Scott Davis

Reviews of process safety incidents and near misses provide valuable learning opportunities. Papers dealing with incidents, near misses, and the lessons learned are presented. Please Note : Case Histories and Lessons Learned -- Spring Meeting 2009 includes the following recorded presentations: ·...

Fire, Explosion, & Quantitative Analysis

Apr 28, 2009

Pablo Zunana

Fires and explosions result in the largest losses in process safety accidents. The increased sensitivity by industry, regulatory, and public sectors to recent events as well as challenging market conditions has caused industry to scrutinize their existing approaches and develop balance between...

Safety Culture and Operational Discipline

Apr 27, 2009

Mark Paradies, Stephanie Payne, Tulanda Brown

This session focuses on the cultural aspects of a successful Process Safety program. Papers that are presented cover new and innovative ideas on corporate-wide and site-specific safety culture improvements, developing or improving operational discipline, and other approaches addressing the “human...

Global Congress On Process Safety Opening Keynote Address

Apr 27, 2009

John Bresland

Introduction to the 5th Global Congress on Process Safety ·<span style="&'font:" 7pt="" 'times="" new="" roman';&'=""> Concluding Remarks

RELEASE: A Model with Data to Predict Aerosol Rainout in Accidental Releases

March, 1998

This book documents CCPS's Aerosol Research Program to develop a model to predict liquid rainout from release of a pressurized, liquefied gas--and, hence the residual amount of material in a vapor cloud, which may be greater than the amount calculated from an enthalpy chart. RELEASE predicts the...