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  1. Process Safety Beacon: Lightning Strikes – Yikes!

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 September ▲ Two storage tanks exploded after a lightning strike at a polymer plant in Bristol, PA (1). In the early morning hours of May 16, 2012, a thunderstorm rolled into an acrylic polymer plant in Bristol, PA. Lightning struck in the tank farm a ...

  2. Process Safety Beacon: What Is an Acceptable LEL Detector Reading?

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 August ▲ A storage tank at a refinery exploded during a routine cleaning operation. Image courtesy of the U.K. Health and Safety Executive. A storage tank exploded as a vacuum truck was emptying it with a nonconductive hose. Four contractors were kil ...

  3. Audit Process Safety for Compliance and Performance

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 August James A. Klein, CCPSC, CPSA James R. Thompson, CPSA Process safety audits can provide an important feedback mechanism to help maintain compliance with regulations and improve process safety program performance. In the U.S., compliance audits m ...

  4. Creating a Resilient Supply Chain for Dangerous Goods

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 August Mario Sagastume Establishing reliable and repeatable processes across the supply chain is critical for businesses to maintain resilient, efficient, and compliant operations, even when disruptions arise. Keeping goods moving in the face of ongo ...

  5. Designing a Toxic Shelter: An Art and Science

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 July Anthony G. Sarrack Murtaza I. Gandhi, P.E. The release of toxic ammonia can pose significant risk to personnel at facilities that handle the material. This risk can be mitigated through the construction and operation of highly effective toxic sh ...

  6. Establishing a Global Robotics Program

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 July Frank Sebastianelli William Rifenburgh Catherine Xu Eric Sun A robotics program can provide many benefits, from improved safety to cost savings. This article provides advice for launching a robotics program at your organization. The term “robots ...

  7. Process Safety Beacon Manage Temporary Changes — Including Clamps

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 July ▲ Pipe clamps can temporarily fix a leaking valve. Image courtesy of the Process Safety Beacon Committee. A plant experienced a piping leak and could not shut down to properly repair it. Using their leak clamp procedure, they consulted the requi ...

  8. Spotlight on Safety: Flocking Behaviors Can Help Improve Safety Effectiveness

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 July Jim Klein Arie de Geus told the following story in his article “The Living Company” (1): In the late nineteenth century, milkmen left open bottles of milk outside people’s doors. A rich cream would rise to the tops of the bottles. Two garden bir ...

  9. Process Safety Beacon: Some Mistakes Take Time To Become Incidents

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 June ▲ A leak occurred in a process pipe years after it was shut down and “emptied.” It is likely that someone made a mistake during the clearing and flushing steps. A company decided to stop making a chemical product. One of the input materials was ...

  10. Conduct an Effective Pre-Startup Safety Review

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2022 June Jody E. Olsen, P.E This helpful guide provides tips and tools for ensuring operational readiness prior to process startup. Pre-startup safety review (PSSR) as required by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) process safe ...

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