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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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 ...

  10. 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 ...

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