The Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center was established to produce engineers and practitioners trained in process safety; to provide its members and others with the research base needed to compete successfully in the ...

through improved detectability. As important, however, are: 1) the establishment of design-based inspections and tests, including type, extent, and frequency; and 2) the minimum limits of acceptability and the technical ...

Positive results can be achieved through an approach incorporating certain core elements that are implemented in a simple, informal, site-specific manner. The approach presented in this paper sets a framework for a worksite ...

This presentation describes an ongoing EPA-OECD project whose goal is to improve understanding and communications in regard to the application of risk assessment processes to accidental chemical releases. The project ...

The greatest opportunities for development of an inherently safer chemical manufacturing process occur at the earliest stages of research and development, in the selection of the chemical synthesis route for the product. ...

The chemical processing industry has been a leader in addressing the toxicological effects of their chemical products and by-products. The science of toxicology, however, is advancing rapidly, and new issues are being ...

How can an organization institutionalize the inherent safety process? To help accomplish this objective Exxon Chemical has developed an Inherent Safety, Health & Environmental (SHE) Review process to be carried out at ...

As refiners and petrochemical plant operators continue to reduce head count and the regulatory agencies focus on severe penalties for after-the-fact noncompliance, the empowered process operator stands out as the focal ...

Public concerns about chlorine and chlorinated chemicals were first aroused by Rachel Carson in 1962 with the publication of her book Silent Spring in which the uses of DDT and other chlorinated pesticides were attacked. ...