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  1. The Effect of Human Factors and Leadership on Safety

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 May Mark Breese Human factors have a significant impact on safety. Understanding the effects of leadership and commitment to safety is essential to developing and maintaining safe working practices. ...

  2. Process Safety Beacon: Get Out and Stay Out

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 April ▲ Employees evacuated from a food processing facility after a fatal nitrogen release. Image credit: Scott Rogers/The Times via Associated Press. On Jan. 28, 2021, liquid nitrogen overflowed from an immersion freezer located inside a food proces ...

  3. Effective Procedures and Process Safety

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 March Rob Fisher Clearly written and intuitive procedures are a crucial component of safe operations. Avoid vague terms and systemic error drivers in procedures to improve field performance and process safety. Many organizations that deal with proces ...

  4. The Dogma of Process Safety

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 March Sean J. Dee, P.E. Christopher S. Buehler, P.E. Russell A. Ogle Nicholas Reding Navid Zanganeh When an incident occurs, a process safety management (PSM) program is often scrutinized. PSM program failures can have significant contractual and leg ...

  5. New Products: March 2024

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 March Fluids and Solids Handling Diaphragm Seal Is Suitable for Sanitary Applications Diaphragm seals are used to separate media in a vessel from a pressure sensor, as the flexible diaphragm allows for accurate measurement without media contact with ...

  6. Process Safety Beacon: Process Upsets Require Focus

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 March Consider a process that suddenly starts operating erratically and shuts down. It could be an instrument failure, but what really caused the upset? During an unplanned shutdown, the focus may be on restarting the operation. Pressures to return t ...

  7. Supporting LOPA with Fault Tree Analysis

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 February Edward M. Marszal John Applegate Risk management tools like layers of protection analysis (LOPA) can oversimplify risk analyses. More advanced tools such as fault tree analysis can expand these simple studies and make them more accurate. Lay ...

  8. Process Safety Beacon: Vacuum Can Put a Dent in Your Process

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 February ▲ A railcar collapsed after a steam-out process because it was not properly vented. A process containing flammable materials was operating under vacuum. Suddenly, the vent line collapsed. Equipment can collapse when the internal pressure cre ...

  9. Risky Business: Unfocused Cybersecurity Risk Management

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 January Matt Malone Organizations must use a targeted cybersecurity risk management approach to safeguard assets and mitigate risks. One of the many hallmarks of evolving industrial automation practices is increasing efficiency. In the earlier days o ...

  10. Process Safety Beacon: An Error Trap Can Be Catastrophic

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 January A fuel terminal was offloading a large amount of gasoline from a ship to several storage tanks. The supervisor incorrectly estimated the time to fill one tank, and it overflowed into the containment (dike) area. Unfortunately, the valve to dr ...

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