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Designs that Lacked Inherent Safety: Case Histories
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
The fundamentals of Inherently Safer Design were not fully appreciated in the initial design (or re-design) in the following series of case histories. Two case histories involving the basic element of plant layout to ...
Updated CCPS Investigation Guidelines Book
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Incident investigation standards and performance criteria continue to improve. In recognition, the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) undertook a major project to upgrade and update the Incident Investigation ...
“Application of Critical Thinking Concepts to Determining the Most Likely Scenario “
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
Chemical process incidents are typically accompanied by a complex chain of events involving multiple breakdowns of safeguards in “tightly coupled” systems. When identifying and determining the most likely scenario(s), there ...
POTENTIAL PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT LESSONS FROM THE BHOPAL DISASTER
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
From Experimental Data Via Kinetic Model to Predicting Reactivity and Assessing Reaction Hazards
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
There is no other way to get original data regarding chemical reaction but experimental study. What kind of experimental technique to use depends on the aim of a study. Nevertheless, there is one almost universal method ...
Offshore Risk Assessment - Simple or Complex?
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Risk assessment for offshore facilities began shortly after the Piper Alpha incident in 1988. At this time, the UK Health and Safety Executive issued rules for Safety Cases for offshore installations. Safety Cases are now ...
The Use of Aerosol Formation, Flammability, and Explosion Information for Heat Transfer Fluid Selection
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
The devastating consequences of aerosol/mist explosions have been widely documented, and there are currently efforts to understand the mechanisms of the formation and explosion of such aerosols. Heat transfer fluids are ...
What You Ask For Isn’t Always What You Get
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
Engineers designing equipment for a new process routinely specify the required material of construction. But how can we be sure that the specified material of construction was actually installed? These three incidents ...
Experiences in the Regulation of Inherent Safety
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Inherent Safety is a worthwhile process risk management strategy to employ, and efforts to implement inherently safer strategies should be given first priority, as it is feasible. But regulating the use of inherent safety ...
A Simplified Risk-Based Approach for Analyzing Human Factors
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Human factors issues are critically important to process safety performance, and approaches are available to manage these risks. But most process safety management (PSM) programs do not formally address human factors as ...