Process Safety Technical Areas

Fires, Explosions and Reactive Chemicals

Apr 27, 2009

James VanOmmeren, Lina R. Saenz

The analysis, prevention, protection and mitigation of fire, explosion, and reactivity hazards continue to be important to the loss prevention community. This session contains papers that identify, characterize, or offer design and operational guidance on fire, explosion and reactivity hazards...

Guidelines for the Management of Change for Process Safety

March, 2008

Guidelines for the Management of Change for Process Safety provides guidance on the implementation of effective and efficient Management of Change (MOC) procedures, which can be applied to improve process safety. In addition to introducing MOC systems, the book describes how to design an initial...

Safe Design and Operation of Process Vents and Emission Control Systems

March, 2006

Process vent header collection systems are subject to continually varying compositions and flow rates and thus present significant challenges for safe design. Due to increasingly demanding safety, health, environmental, and property protection requirements, today's industrial designers are faced...

19th Annual International Conference: Emergency Planning Preparedness, Prevention & Response

April, 2005

Over 40 papers and posters that share the latest practices in emergency planning related to fixed chemical, pharmaceutical, LNG, and petroleum facilities, storage facilities, transportation, and security.

Guidelines for Analyzing and Managing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed Chemical Sites

June, 2003

This new initiative demonstrates a process and tools for managing the security vulnerability of sites that produce and handle chemicals, petroleum products, pharmaceuticals, and related materials such as fertilizers and water treatment chemicals. Includes: enterprise screening; site screening;...