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A Refreshing Take: Analysing Accident Scenarios through Causal Network Topology Metrics
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
Accident causation investigation and even more hazard scenario identification are troubled by the complexity of interactions between three elements in a process facility: People, Plant and Procedures. Interactions are of ...
How to Treat Expert Judgment? With certainty it contains uncertainty!
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2019)
To be acceptably safe one must identify the risks one is exposed to. It is uncertain whether the threat really will materialize, but determining the size and probability of the risk is also full of uncertainty. When ...
HAZOP: Our Primary Guide in the Land of Process Risks: How can we improve it and do more with its results?
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2015)
All risk management starts in determining what can happen. Reliable predictive analysis is key. So, we perform process hazard analysis, which should result in scenario identification and definition. Apart from material/substance ...
Can we verify and intrinsically validate risk assessment results? What progress is being made to increase QRA trustworthiness?
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
The purpose of a risk assessment is to make a decision whether the risk of a given situation is acceptable, and, if not, how we can reduce it to a tolerable level. For many cases, this can be done in a semi-quantitative ...
Study of FSRU-LNGC System Based on a Quantitative Multi-cluster Risk Informed Model
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2019)
The offshore LNG terminal, referred to as LNG floating storage unit or floating storage and re- gasification unit (FSRU), performs well on both building process and operation process. The LNG FSRU is a cost-effective and ...