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Safe Work Practices

The RBPS element that helps control hazards associated with maintenance and other nonroutine work is one of nine elements in the RBPS pillar of managing risk. Introduction to Safe Work Practices and Control of Hazardous Energy By Lock-out and Tag-out, provide information on various safe work practices. The importance of communcation between production and maintenance employees ensures positive prevention of all hazardous energy sources causing harm to others. 

See all publications regarding safe work practice in these CCPS' Guidelines for Managing Risk.

Gains From Getting near Misses Reported

Apr 3, 2012
Bill Bridges
[An earlier edition of this paper was first presented at the “International Conference and Workshop – Process Safety Incidents,” 2000, organized by the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)] The need for effective root cause analysis is finally gaining the spotlight in the chemical process...

Case Histories and Technology Innovations for StorageTank Loss Prevention

Apr 3, 2012
Szu-ying Huang
Storage tanks are most common material containing units in process industries. There have been many accidents associated within storage tank (material deficiency, structure design failures, operation error etc.) or among storage areas throughout the history. For example, overfilling has already...

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...

ìWell the Team Has Met and Completed the PHAÖ.Now What?î

Apr 2, 2012
Dewana Tarpley
Learning from the experiences and expertise of others has long been recognized as a valued process when completing PHAs. The gathering of a multi-disciplinary review allows facilities to succeed in a path of continuous improvement by evaluating the current and future state of the process based on...

Integrity Inspection of In-Plant Underground Piping

Apr 2, 2012
Everett Johnson
Underground piping inside plant boundaries is frequently out-of-sight, out-of-mind. While there exists a wide body of knowledge, mature technology, and established techniques for inspection of cross-country underground pipelines, and even above-ground in-plant piping, the converse is true for...

Explosion Hazards of Multicomponent Combustible Gas Mixtures

Apr 2, 2012
Alfonso F. Ibarreta
Laminar and turbulent premixed flame burning velocities are two parameters that are sometimes needed to evaluate explosion hazards. There is ample information in the literature regarding the burning velocities of most common ignitable gases and vapors in air. Little information, however, is...

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...

Stability Analysis of Safety Valve

Mar 22, 2010
The stability for a safety valve was investigated by experiments and analysis. It was found that the dynamic instability was caused by the interaction effect between the pressure wave propagation through the inlet pipe and the valve disc motion. This dynamic instability is mitigated by the...

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