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Process Safety Boot Camp

Instructor-led (classroom) Course

This intensive 4-day course is also offered periodically throughout the year to the broader chemical engineering public. Taught jointly by process safety veterans with decades of experience at major companies from the process industries, the course is highly interactive.

Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)

CCPS was established in 1985 to focus on engineering and management practices that can prevent and mitigate catastrophic accidents involving release of hazardous materials. CCPS is supported by sponsors in the chemical and hydrocarbon process industries and active worldwide via conferences, books, databases, education, research, and more.

5th Latin American Conference on Process Safety

August 12-14, 2013

Hilton Cartagena | Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

5th CCPS Latin American Process Safety Conference will be held in Cartagena de Indias, August 12-14, 2012.

Tools for Making Acute Risk Decisions with Chemical Process Safety Applications

August, 1994

The complexity of today's risk decisions is well known. Beyond cost and risk there are many other factors contributing to these decisions, including type of risk (such as human injury or fatality), the economic impact on the local community, profitability, availability of capital, alternatives for...

Dow's Fire & Explosion Index Hazard Classification Guide, 7th Edition

June, 1994

This popular safety best-seller is designed to help the user quantify the expected damage of potential fire and explosion incidents in realistic terms, identify the equipment likely to contribute to the creation or escalation of an incident, and communicate the fire and explosion risk potential to...

Guidelines for Implementing Process Safety Management Systems

April, 1994

The causes of catastrophic accidents in the process industries, now recognized as complex and interrelated, need to be matched by multi-faceted technical management systems. These principles apply to companies of any size and to a full range of industries beyond the chemical industry, such as pulp...

Guidelines for Safe Automation of Chemical Processes

October, 1993

Increased automation reduces the potential for operator error, but introduces the possibility of new types of errors in design and maintenance. This book provides designers and operators of chemical process facilities with a general philosophy and approach to safe automation, including independent...

Emergency Relief System Design Using DIERS Technology: The Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS) Project Manual

April, 1993

OSHA (29 CFR 1910.119) has recognized AIChE/DIERS two-phase flow publications as examples of "good engineering practice" for process safety management of highly hazardous materials. The prediction of when two-phase flow venting will occur, and the applicability of various sizing methods for two-...

Guidelines for Process Equipment Reliability Data, with Data Tables

February, 1989

The book supplements Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis by providing the failure rate data needed to perform a chemical process quantitative risk analysis.

Guidelines for Vapor Release Mitigation

April, 1988

Guidelines for Vapor Release Mitigation is a survey of current industrial practice for controlling accidental releases of hazardous vapors and preventing their escape from the source area.

Chemical Reactivity Hazards

eLearning (online) Course

Chemical Reactivity Hazards is a web-based SAChE module that shows how uncontrolled chemical reactions can lead to serious harm.

Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)

eLearning (online) Course

This online course offers an overview of Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) to mitigate risk in your processes.

Properly Purge and Inert Storage Vessels

February

2001

Safety

George R. Kinsley Jr.

Inert gases are used to prevent fires and explosions in the vapor spaces of equipment. Correct selection of oxygen concentration and inert gas flow rate are critical to ensuring safety.

Size Depressurization and Relief Devices for Pressurized Segments Exposed to Fire

September

2002

Safety

Per Salater

Piping and equipment must withstand fires without rupturing. This can be accomplished by properly designing relief and depressurization systems and using passive fire protection,when needed.

Tackling the Human Challenges of Facility Security

February

2006

Safety

Bill Effron, Dennis A. Attwood

The increased complexity of security systems may come at the expense of the user. Thus, they must be designed to match their operators' capabilities and limitations.

Before OSHA Comes Knocking ...

March

2009

Safety

Daniel Steinway

The OSHA Process Safety Management National Emphasis Program will soon apply to the chemical industry, targeting compliance with safety standards associated with chemical hazards.