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Dust Explosion Hazards: Housekeeping Quantified

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
DUST-EXPLOSION HAZARDS: HOUSEKEEPING QUANTIFIED Richard W. Prugh, PE, CSP Principal Process Safety Engineer Chilworth Technology, Inc., a Dekra...

CCPS Project 246 - 2nd Edition Guidelines for Siting and Layout of Facilities

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
The new second edition of CCPS's Guidelines for Siting and Layout of Facilities has been written to address the many developments in the last decade...

New Guidelines for Managing Asset (Mechanical) Integrity

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
Ensuring the initial and ongoing integrity of process equipment, including instrumentation and safety systems, has become known as asset integrity...

Improving Human Factors Review in PHA and LOPA

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
Human Reliability practitioners utilize a variety of tools in their work that could improve the facilitation of PHA-LOPA related to identifying and...

Inherently Safer Automation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
The 2 nd edition of CCPS’s Guidelines for Safe Automation of Chemical Processes discusses the application of the inherently safer...

Fracture Toughness and Brittle Failure – a Pressure Vessel Case Study

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
That low fracture toughness can cause brittle failure in steel has been documented in well-known studies. These include failure of Liberty Ships...

“Closing the Holes in the Swiss Cheese Model” – Maximizing the Reliability of Operator Response to Alarms

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
Layers of protection for abnormal event management can be modeled as barriers of swiss cheese according to James Reason. An operatorâ€...

Proven Approaches to Ensuring Operators Can Respond to Critical Process Deviations in Time (Human Response IPL)

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
Humans can be the cause on an accident scenario (the Initiating Event [IE]) or humans can serve or participate as an independent protection layer (...

Adapting Cause and Effects Methodology to Your Safety Instrumente System (SIS) to Reduce Human Errors from Engineering, Operations and Beyond

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
Title: Adapting cause and effects methodology to your Safety instrumented system (SIS) to reduce human errors from...

Ten Years of Living Risk Based Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
Ten Years of Living Risk Based Process Safety CCPS published Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety in March 20007. We were the primary authors of...

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