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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.

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Streamlining PHAs with Pre-Population, Pre-Work, and Creativity

Apr 3, 2012
Judy Perry
This presentation and paper will focus on how PHAs can be conducted using a minimal amount of resources, while still maintaining high quality results that are sustainable and in accordance with AICHE-CCPS publication guidance (and in accordance with regulations). In the fall of 2010, I made a...

Auto Refrigeration and Metal Embrittlement

Apr 3, 2012
Tys Koerts
Abstract AIChE Housten Conference April 1-4 2012 Loss Of Containment Protection Auto Refrigeration and Metal Embrittlement Tys Koerts Sr. Process Safety Consultant Auto-refrigeration occurs on adiabatic expansion of gasses and boiling of liquids. The resulting low temperature can bring metals like...

Continuing Our Process Safety Management (PSM) Journey: How Time and Technology Have Helped Change the Public's View (A Case Study for Where We Are Today and Where We Can Go Tomorrow)

Apr 3, 2012
Bruce K. Vaughen
This paper briefly explores the history of basic PSM principles, first describing a historical view of how PSM developed into today's PSM Elements. Then this paper covers a proposed direction for PSM's future that may help address the changing nature of the public's view of the chemical industry –...

ìBridging SEMS Between the Owner, Operator, and Contractorî

Apr 3, 2012
Ester Brawley
As of November 2011, offshore platforms have been required to develop and implement a Safety and Environmental Management (SEMS) Program. The offshore industry has many unique challenges that their onshore counterparts have not had to face. One of the biggest challenges facing the offshore industry...

Process Plant Safety: An Attorney's Perspective on Key Legal and Regulatory Issues

Apr 3, 2012
Lynn L. Bergeson
That process plant safety is critically important to the sustainable growth of any manufacturing or other impacted company is indisputable. High profile process plant safety failures such as Deepwater Horizon, Bhopal, and BP Texas City are cautionary tales illustrating the tragic consequences that...

Go out and lead on Process Safety Management

Apr 3, 2012
David Snowball
This paper will share the UK's experience of risk control for major hazards and will emphasise the key role corporate governance and leadership plays in the management of major hazard risks. The paper will outline the joint work undertaken between industry and the Health and Safety Executive in...

Evaluation of Dust Explosion/Fire Hazards During a Process Hazards Analysis [PHA]

Apr 3, 2012
Mayur Patel
Evaluation of Dust Explosion/Fire Hazards during a Process Hazards Analysis [PHA] Mayur Patel DuPont Engineering mayur.patel@ind.dupont.com and S. Dharmavaram DuPont Engineering seshu.dharmavaram@usa.dupont.com Many of the recent dust fire and explosion incidents have shown that PHA teams have...

Process Safety - Management or Leadership?

Apr 3, 2012
Charles J. King
Process Safety Management is often presented as technically complex, requiring a large staff of engineers and specialists with an array of tools and techniques that appear to grow in intricacy and sophistication year by year. Large companies are generally well positioned to operate in this arena –...

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...

How to Go From Lesson to Learned: PSM From Engineering to Operations

Apr 3, 2012
Chitram Lutchman
How to go from Lesson to Learned: PSM from Engineering to Operations Presented By: Dr. Chit Lutchman (CSP; CRSP, 1 st Class Power Engineer) PSM and other Human Factor considerations have improved reliability of many operating facilities across many different industries. Similarly, significant...

Application of the Anti-Sloshing Blanket to LNG Carriers and FLNG

Apr 3, 2012
Sangeon Chun
Sloshing is long problematic issue on achieving safety and reliability of LNG carriers and FLNG if the liquid level is below at a certain point in the containment system. Sloshing motion can be significantly reduced by covering the free-surface using a patented floater type blanket which is formed...

Operational Group for Process Safety

Apr 3, 2012
Maria Clara Saraiva
With the increase in requirements for monitoring and improving process safety indicators on a thermoelectric unit linked to a Braskem Basic Petrochemical Site in Brazil, a large range of knowledge among engineers and operators were found. The theme Process Safety was commonly confused with...

Taking a Risk for Safety

Apr 3, 2012
Ian Sutton
Taking a Risk for Safety Over the last twenty years companies in the process industries have invested heavily in their occupational safety programs. These investments of time and money have been made in many areas, including training, behavior-based safety and the use of PPE. The results have been...

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...

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