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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.Read more

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.

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Transportation Risk

Apr 28, 2009
Brad Fuller, Sebastien Evanno, Vania De Stefani
Transportation Risk Assessment (TRA) is an essential aspect of risk management. TRA manages transportation risks by considering hazards, routes, and impacts. This promotes the identification of major contributors to the risk and thus strategies for risk reduction. TRA includes consideration of...

Food and Consumer Products Process Hazards

Apr 28, 2009
Catherine Kollhoff, Guy Colonna, John Bresland
The Food and Consumer Products area has significant hazards and risks from dust and flammable liquid explosions as well as from toxic releases. Moreover, the Montreal Protocol for the removal of Ozone Depleting incudes papers on the identification, prevention, control, and management of hazards and...

Hazard Evaluations and Layer of Protection Analyses

Apr 28, 2009
Bill Bridges, Gerald N. Evenson, Mark Kaszniak
Process hazard analyses (PHAs) and their extension into LOPAs and Safety Integrity Level (SIL) determinations continue to be central to loss prevention efforts. This session contains presentations related to identifying hazards, developing scenarios, determining the adequacy of safeguards, and...

Process Safety Metrics and Culture

Apr 28, 2009
Charles Soczek, Corey Shelton, Mike Broadribb
This session features presentations focusing on using the new CCPS Process Safety Metrics and other metrics to drive continual improvement in a company’s process safety culture and in overall incident reduction performance. Emphasis is placed on papers that describe actual experience with...

Tools to Identify Hazards

Apr 27, 2009
Delmar Morrison, Fred Henselwood
Personnel involved with day-to-day plant operations maintain an important role in the hazard identification and risk assessment (HIRA) process. These individuals are often the first to identify hazardous process conditions in an operating environment. Papers in to this session focus on tools and...

Implementing PSM Globally

Apr 27, 2009
Christie Arseneau, David Cummings
In the last several years there have been numerous changes in technical and analytical methods, process safety management systems, regulations, globalization and consolidation, new and increased accountability to public and regulatory entities, and changing market conditions. Papers in this session...

Safety Culture and Operational Discipline

Apr 27, 2009
Mark Paradies, Stephanie Payne, Tulanda Brown
This session focuses on the cultural aspects of a successful Process Safety program. Papers that are presented cover new and innovative ideas on corporate-wide and site-specific safety culture improvements, developing or improving operational discipline, and other approaches addressing the “human...

Consequence Modeling

Apr 27, 2009
David Herrmann, Mike Moosemiller, Prankul Middha
Consequence modeling has evolved as a result of accident investigations, government regulations, and the maturation of process hazards analysis and quantitative risk assessment. This session provides examples of where the state-of-the-art currently is. Please Note : Consequence Modeling -- Spring...

Applications of Lopa (Layer Of Protection Analysis)

Apr 27, 2009
Bill Bridges, Dick Baum, Richard Gowland
Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) continues to be a powerful and popular tool for assessing risk. This session presents papers focusing on applied principles of Layer of Protection Analysis. Special consideration was given to papers that focus on actual plant experiences with LOPA implementations...

Auditing Process Safety

Apr 27, 2009
Adrian Sepeda, Mark S. Dreux, Michael Green
The 2nd Edition of the CCPS Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems is currently being prepared. This session will include papers that address management systems for ensuring effective audit processes. Topics in this session may also include developing internal audit program;...

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 Hazard Evaluation Procedures, 3rd Edition

April, 2008
Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, 3rd Edition keeps process engineers updated on the effective methodologies that process safety demands. Almost 200 pages of worked examples are included to facilitate understanding. References for further reading, along with charts and diagrams that...

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...

Guidelines for Performing Effective Pre-Startup Safety Reviews

March, 2007
This book provides guidance to those with responsibility for scheduling and executing a Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR). It outlines a protocol and tool for use by project or turnaround teams, to effectively and efficiently schedule and execute a PSSR. Integrates PSSR throughout the project/...

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...

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