Safety Communication’s 3 Big Mistakes: Too Much, Too Complex, Not Useable
Apr 4, 2012
Dr TJ Larkin shows what’s wrong with our safety communication and how to fix it.
Conference Presentations - 2012 Global Congress on Process Safety
Study on performance-based safety spacing between ultra-large oil tanks
Apr 4, 2012
Yifei Meng
Study on performance-based safety spacing between ultra-large oil tanks
The Importance of SAFETY DESIGN On NEW Refineries-Portuguese
Apr 4, 2012
Laurence Siqueira
The Importance of SAFETY DESIGN On NEW Refinaries- portuguese
The optimum design of LNG tank farm layout
Apr 4, 2012
Yifei Meng
The optimum design of LNG tank farm layout
Using LOPA to Establish SILs for Power Outage Protection
Apr 4, 2012
Carlos A. Barrera
Catastrophic incident root causes often may be correlated with power outages. An unanticipated power outage may be an initiating event that leads to a process upset or even an emergency shutdown of a process unit. If the planning and implementation of the emergency shutdown are managed incorrectly...
Analysis of the transfer and distribution of sulfur in the typical refinery
Apr 4, 2012
Li Shi
Analysis of the transfer and distribution of sulfur in the typical refinery
Characteristics of the Vapour Cloud Explosion Incident At the IOC Terminal in Jaipur, 29th October 2009
Apr 4, 2012
D. Michael Johnson
At approximately 6:10pm on 29 th October 2009, a leak of gasoline occurred on the Indian Oil Corporation's (IOC) Petroleum Oil Lubricants Terminal at Jaipur, India. This leak continued for some 75 minutes, when the vapour cloud ignited, resulting in a severe vapour cloud explosion (VCE) followed by...
Fatal Exposure: Tragedy At DuPont
Apr 4, 2012
Marc G. Sáenz
This investigation by the United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) provides unique lessons in process safety. Three incidents occurred over a 33-hour period at the DuPont plant in Belle, WV. The most serious incident occurred on January 23, 2010, when a release of highly...
More LOPA Misapplied: Common Errors and How to Avoid Them
Apr 4, 2012
Karen Study
Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) continues to be more and more widely utilized in the Petrochemical and other industries. LOPA is a “simplified” tool, which is true relative to tools such as Quantitative Risk Assessment and Fault Tree Analysis. However, simplified does not mean simple on an...
Societal Risk Criteria and Pipelines
Apr 4, 2012
Joan M. Schork
The discussion of societal risk criteria for the process industry began in the 1970's, led primarily by the Dutch and British governments. Most of the discussion, however, has centered on fixed facilities. The literature on the societal risk of hazardous goods transportation, particularly by...