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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Don't Do What We Did - Stupidity, Luck, and Making Good Choices

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
Abstract - Fortunately, the focus on safe behaviors, hazard recognition, and risk management has greatly improved over the past few decades. However...

Are Your Safeguards Fast Enough to Be Effective?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
A number of design pitfalls must be avoided when allocating the process safety time during the specification of instrumented safeguards. A key...

Beyond Being Proactively Reactive

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
In the last 20 years, Industry has made great strides in utilizing tools to manage the day-to-day business of equipment failure in order to minimize...

Cyber Incident Exercise for Safety Protection in Critical Infrastructure

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
The companies, especially owners of critical infrastructures (CIs), must build a correspondence process to cope with a serious incident beforehand...

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