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Inherent Safety of Dikes Against Catastrophic Failure of Storage Tanks
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
It is industry practice to provide passive containment (dikes) of storage tank equivalent to 110% of the capacity of the tank. This standard is sufficient for containment of small to moderate leaks. However, it is generally ...
Chemical Plant Security: National Security for the Chemical Industry
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Probabilistic Fault Tree Analysis
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Goal Setting: A Systematic Approach to Chemical Safety Improvements
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
This paper explores a novel approach for improving chemical safety in the United States by establishing National Process Safety Goals. Process safety initiatives in the recent years have given rise to significant increases ...
Measuring Safety Performance to Achieve Long Term Improvement
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
The paper summarizes the types of "event" reporting (near misses, first aid cases, OSHA reportable injuries/illnesses, etc.) and stresses the importance of measuring worker conformance to established systems, as an effective ...
Quantitative Risk Assessment for Refinery Industry
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
A quantitative risk assessment is widely accepted methods for safety assurance in process industry. The methods is continuosly improving by introduction of new approaches both to hazards identification and risk evaluation. ...
The Effect of the Routine/Non-Routine Nature of Tasks on Serious Accident Rates
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
An accident model and a model of human cognition were combined to create a hypothesis about a major source of causation for accidents at a manufacturing site. This led to a definition of a routine/non-routine task or ...
What is a QRA and What Can It Tell You?
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Over the past ten years, there has been a growing focus on risk analysis and risk assessment in the process safety community. Regulations like the EPA's Risk Management Program have brought the word risk to the forefront ...
U.S. ARMY measurement and verification (M&V) costing toolkit
(Energy Systems Laboratory, Texas A&M University, 2003-12)
This is the 2003 final report for the U.S. Army Monitoring and Verification (M&V) costs project. The purpose of this project is to develop a M&V Costing Toolkit to be used by the government or third party planners to design ...
Development of a Decision Support System for Chemical Accident
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Decision support systems (DSS) are used extensively in business to enable managers to make future decisions. Every business area requires a customized DSS. The uniqueness of each business area stems from various types of ...