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Equipment Identification - Strategies & Effective Practices to Manage and Mitigate Hazards

Proper equipment tagging

  • Periodically complete a site survey to ensure that the Process and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID, also known as a flowsheet) accurately depicts plant equipment, valves and instruments as installed in the facility. 

Equipment Identification - Potential Hazardous Consequences

Personal Injury (Safety / Human Health)

  • Improper tagging  or identification of equipment or piping may lead to release of hazardous material resulting in personnel exposure to fire and explosion, radiation or toxic vapors.

Equipment Identification - Need / Call to Action

Incidents Continue to Happen 

 

“Release of toxic chlorine gas during a routine delivery activity due to the inadvertent mixing of sulphuric acid and sodium hypochlorite, injuring 140 people in a nearby community. Improper Equipment Identification of piping, specifically chemical lines containing incompatible materials, resulted in a release of chlorine gas. Investigation recommends that attention be paid for design, identification and operation of the equipment.” 

Equipment Identification - Fundamental Intent

To identify and manage situations where incorrect Equipment Identification may pose significant hazards during performance any job or during any incident in plant areas. Such hazardous situations may result in fires or explosions that could result in personal injuries, property damage, community impacts, environmental impacts, or business impacts.   

Example activities that would require use of an Equipment Identification SWP: 

Special thanks to Manasa Godavarthy of Reliance Industries for their contributions to the content of this safe work practice. To identify and manage situations where incorrect Equipment Identification may pose significant hazards during performance any job or during any incident in plant areas. Such hazardous situations may result in fires or explosions that could result in personal injuries, property damage, community impacts, environmental impacts, or business impacts. Learn more

Exhibitor Talks

This year's SEED conference will feature four exhibitor talks. These presentations, which will take place towards the end of the lunch breaks in the main session room, will highlight new technologies that can potentially improve your workflows and streamline your research. These sponsored...

June 2019 Meeting - Speaker Series #3

May 30, 2019
Tuesday, June 25, 2019,
6:00pm to 8:00pm
CDT
Join us for the the final event of 2019's Speaker Series! Our speaker will be Mike Resetarits, a retired chemical engineer who most recently taught at Oklahoma State University and has previously worked for various companies including Fraction Reserach Inc. (FRI). He'll be flying in from Florida...Read more

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