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Companies are constantly looking for effective execution of risk based process safety tasks. Risk management can help a company to better deal with the resultant risks and sustain long-term accident free and profitable operations.

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CEP: Process Safety Beacon - Double Block and Bleed

March
2012
Process Safety Beacon
The December 2011 Beacon described an incident where a missing plug on a vent line resulted in a flammable material leak that caught fire, causing a fatality. That incident reminded us of the importance of caps and plugs on process vent lines and...

Practicas fatales

Peligros de la liberación intencional de gas natural en áreas de trabajo.

Refinery-Wide Topics for Profitability, Reliability and Safety

Apr 3, 2012
Mike Siravo
In this session we will review several case studies that will allow you to better understand the importance of process engineering and process safety basics. These examples will show specific pitfalls to avoid but also will open your thinking to properly consider the implications of other...

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...

How to Effectively Apply Incident Command System (ICS) to Emergency Response

Apr 2, 2012
Qingsheng Wang
The Incident Command System (ICS) is a standardized approach typically structured into five functional areas: Command, Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Finance. The system allows for the integration of personnel, facilities, equipment, procedures, and communications operating within an...

A Treasure Hunt towards Process Safety In the Unit Operations Laboratory

Oct 17, 2011
Ronald J. Willey
Integration of the process safety in the chemical engineering curriculum is a requirement. Several places exist and with a multitude of approaches. One approach we have used in our unit operations laboratories for over 30 years is an introductory treasure hunt, mandatory during the first meeting of...

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...

Flame Flashbacks: Causes and Prevention

AIChE Webinar
Apr 7, 2010
Dan Banks, P.E.

This webinar addresses the principle of flammability of vapor/air mixtures, including flammability limits, ignition temperatures, the effect of inerts and how to determine the flammability of any particular mixture.

Teaching Reactive Chemical Hazards to Chemical Engineers

AIChE Webinar
Mar 3, 2010
Daniel Crowl

This webinar presents an introduction to how industry handles reactive chemical hazards, and provides resource material to teach this subject in an existing course in chemical engineering.

Process Safety - From the Top-Down and Bottom-up

Apr 28, 2009
The theme of this session is implementing Process Safety systems from two different perspectives: (1) what Senior Management needs from process safety and risk practitioners to effectively facilitate decision making and ensure ongoing process safety excellence and (2) what technical personnel can...

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