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  1. Chronic Unease — The Missing Ingredient in Safety Leadership

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2023 February Jennifer Bracey To achieve a robust safety culture, a sense of chronic unease within an organization’s management can help develop a healthy preoccupation with failure in near misses, risk assessments, and audits. Truly effective safety lead ...

  2. Use Process Historian Data to Verify Safeguards

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2023 February A. M. (Tony) Downes Prasad Goteti, P.E. Steve Lindsay Michele Loseto Use field-level data from process historians to verify safety assumptions made during hazard analyses. The chemical process industries (CPI) have driven toward performance- ...

  3. Conducting a Climate Risk Vulnerability Assessment

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2023 January Julie D. White, P.E. Victor H. Edwards, P.E. As extreme weather events increase in frequency and severity, the potential impact on safe and reliable operations of process plants can be evaluated using a climate risk vulnerability assessment. ...

  4. Use Risk-Based Methodologies to Improve Asset Integrity Management

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2023 January Dr. Payam Jamshidi A risk-based approach to asset integrity management offers several cost, safety, and productivity benefits. Efficient asset management has become crucial for organizations to stay competitive in today’s global market. With ...

  5. Process Safety Beacon: Effects from Changes May Take Years to Appear

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2023 January ▲ A process change that rerouted a waste stream back to a storage tank (T302) was not documented, ultimately leading to a deadly explosion. Read the report for more details: www.hse.gov.uk/comah/chevron-pembroke-report-2020.pdf. On June 2, 20 ...

  6. Five Things to Know About Cybersecurity in Process Safety

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 December Patrick O'Brien Process safety professionals have an especially important part to play in protecting the chemical process industries (CPI) from cybersecurity threats. Cybersecurity is one of today’s most popular buzzwords, and it can be ...

  7. Spotlight on Safety: Even Astronauts Make Mistakes

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 December Jim Klein We all know that people, even highly trained people, occasionally make mistakes. It could be a manager making an ill-advised decision, an engineer making a poor design choice, an operator filling a vessel incorrectly, or a mechanic ...

  8. Management of Change Reviews for Small Modifications

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 December Jody E. Olsen, P.E Sections The MOC review is the sum of many reviews The screening step Engage discipline representatives to perform discipline-specific reviews Engage discipline representatives to support assessment of replacement-in-kind ...

  9. Process Safety Beacon: Idle Does Not Mean Safe

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 November ▲ An explosion at an ink and paint manufacturing facility caused significant damage to the nearby community. Image courtesy of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. At 2:46 AM on Nov. 22, 2006, a violent explosion occurred ...

  10. Process Safety Beacon: Communication — The Heart of Safe Operations

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 October ▲ Flowmeters require periodic calibration. Be sure to always follow proper safety procedures. An inexperienced operator was running a process that involved regular transfers of flammable solvents. Part of the operation was shut down to allow ...

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