Conference Presentations - 2012 Global Congress on Process Safety

Learning from experience is one of the four pillars of Risk-Based Process Safety. Incidents that occur at one facility often provide opportunities to strengthen management systems at other facilities. Sharing the technical lessons learned from incidents is morally right and vital to improving...

Process Safety Management Mentoring: Subjects to Convey and the Methods for Conveying Many organizations have developed competency descriptions at various levels for personnel. These competencies generally start at awareness level and progress to more advanced levels. Process safety competency at...

To perform LOPA's, fault tree analysis, SIL verifications and other quantitative likelihood analyses requires data. As much as everyone wants data, it always seems to be elusive or lacking in quality. This paper explores various issues that the authors have experienced when dealing with end user...

Damage Level Matrix and Damage Curves for Buildings in Petrochemical Facilities One important component of a Facility Siting Study is the prediction of building response due to blast loading. Commonly used building damage criteria for siting studies are the ones published in ASCE's ?Design of Blast...

Study on performance-based safety spacing between ultra-large oil tanks

The Importance of SAFETY DESIGN On NEW Refinaries- portuguese