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Strong Reporting Culture as Stepping Stone to Continuously Drive Safety Performance Improvement

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
This session will review the leading indicator research findings drawn from analyzing a large Energy and Chemicals industry data set. The source of...

Journey towards PSM Excellence

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
This paper describes the experience, learning and major challenges in implementing Process Safety Management at Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)...

Implementation of PSM In Capital Projects

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
It is critical to embed Process Safety Management in the capital project system to help achieve a safe start-up. This is the foundation for assuring...

Near Miss Reporting Behavior and the Safety Climate – A Scenario-Based Study

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
In the aftermath of the March, 2005 incident at BP's Texas City Refinery, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board cited concerns about ?the effectiveness of...

Are You Tired of Playing "Whack a Mole" with Your Process Safety Management Program Results - If So, It's Time for a Change

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 21, 2010
Recurring or chronic performance problems over time within any process safety management system at a site or within a corporate structure can...

Inherently Safer Acids - A Case Study on the Application of Polyelectrolytes

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
Strong acids, such as aqueous hydrochloric acid, are commonly used in the chemical process industry to purify streams or remove particulates from raw...

Evaluating Human Response to an Alarm for LOPA or Safety Studies

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Many LOPA scenarios have an independent protection layer (IPL) credit for operator intervention to prevent or mitigate the scenario. It is often...

A Work Process for Revalidating LOPAs and Other Risk Analyses

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
The Chemical Process Industry (CPI) has long recognized the necessity of periodically revalidating Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs), such as Hazard and...

Ensuring Consistency of Corporate Risk Criteria

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
The recently published CCPS text Guidelines for Developing Quantitative Safety Risk Criteria makes a strong case for corporations developing risk...

Process Safety Management in the Energy Sector

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
This paper describes experience of application of the principles of process safety management within Centrica plc, an integrated energy company with...

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