Browsing by Subject "Process Safety Management"

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    • Auditing the Quality of Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) Studies 
      Alshethry, Faisal Abdulrahman M (2017-07-20)
      The petrochemical industry is subject to various federal and local regulations and requirements that are challenging to meet and resource-intensive. Time and human factors often lead to a “check box” mentality where ...
    • Automating Process Safety Management 
      Bearrow, Mike (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)
      In February of 1992 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promulgated the Process Safety Management Standard (PSM) for Highly Hazardous Chemicals. The stated objective of this standard is to prevent ...
    • Evaulating the Use of Third Parties to Measure Process Safety Management in Small Firms 
      McNulty, Patrick J.; Barrish, Robert A.; Antoff, Richard C.; Schaller, Leon C. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1999)
      This paper describes a pilot experiment designed to investigate the use of third party auditors to inspect facilities that use hazardous chemicals in order to evaluate compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency’s ...
    • A Simplified PSM Guidance for Smaller Facilities using a Risk Based Approach 
      Bade, Swarup; Tangirala, Lakshmana (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)
      “Safety matters at all levels”, even for small companies that may not be OSHA’s PSM level facilities, as long as they use highly hazardous chemicals which may be toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive. Incidents aren’t ...
    • Using Data to Build a Picture of Safety 
      Ward, Alfred; Mostert, M. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)
      Process Safety Management (PSM) involves a number of key elements from a technical prospective ‘Plant’, operational management ‘Processes’ and the human element ‘People’. All major incidents can be traced back to the failure ...