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Metrics provide direct feedbacks on the workings of RBPS systems, and leading indicators provide early warning signals of ineffective process safety results. Organizations must use their mistakes and those of others as motivation for action and view as opportunities for improvement.

Process Plant Safety: An Attorney's Perspective on Key Legal and Regulatory Issues

Apr 3, 2012
Lynn L. Bergeson
That process plant safety is critically important to the sustainable growth of any manufacturing or other impacted company is indisputable. High profile process plant safety failures such as Deepwater Horizon, Bhopal, and BP Texas City are cautionary tales illustrating the tragic consequences that...

Explosion at T2 Laboratories

AIChE Webinar
Sep 22, 2010
Robert J. Hall, P.E.

This webinar discusses the CSB investigation and findings related to the explosion and chemical fire at T2 Laboratories, Inc. in December 2007.

Recommended Industry Process Safety Metrics

CCPS Webinar
Feb 13, 2008
Tim Overton

The BP US Refineries Independent Safety Review Panel (“Baker Panel”) and US Chemical Safety Board each recommended improved industry-wide process safety metrics in their final reports dealing with the 2005 explosion at the BP Texas City refinery.

Introduction to Flammable Materials

AIChE Webinar
Feb 17, 2009
Daniel Crowl

This webinar will provide a basic introduction to flammable materials with the purpose of providing valuable information that a practicing engineer can use to prevent fires and explosions.

Impact of Guidelines for Independent Protection Layers and Initiating Events

Apr 4, 2012
J. Wayne Chastain
Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) was introduced about 15 years ago as a simplified risk assessment method between HAZOP (Process Hazard Analysis [PHA]) and quantitative risk assessment (QRA). This introduction was timely; LOPA was quickly adopted world-wide. The rules for independent protection...

One Company's near Miss Program - Successes, Learning, and Improvements

Apr 3, 2012
Shakeel Kadri
Abstract For 8 th Global Congress on Process Safety (Process Plant Safety Symposium) April 2012 One Company's Near Miss Program - Successes, Learning, and Improvements Shakeel H. Kadri Glen A. Peters James VanOmmeren Air Products & Chemicals Inc. 7201 Hamilton Blvd. Allentown, PA 18195 USA...

Exposing the Blurry Lines Between Personal Safety and Process Safety Education

Oct 17, 2011
Delmar R. Morrison
Chemical engineering curricula have long been focused on instilling the fundamentals of chemical engineering science in undergraduates and advancing the state of the art through postgraduate study. Unfortunately, a comprehensive focus on safety has never been in the core of the chemical engineering...

Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems, 2nd Edition

February, 2011
This book discusses the fundamental skills, techniques, and tools of auditing, and the characteristics of a good process safety management system. A variety of approaches are given so the reader can select the best methodology for a given audit. This book updates the original CCPS Auditing...

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