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Analysis of the Low Perception of Risk: Causes, Consequences, and Barriers
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2019)
The principles of risk, danger, and sociability depend on cognitive limitations and the social work environment. Subjects are linked in binaries or multiples where they can establish causal relationships or influences that ...
Analysis of Reliability Mapping in Refining Industry: Identification of Critical Regions and Interventions in Complex Production Systems
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2019)
The article aims demonstrate the importance of reliability mapping for decrease risks of shutdown and accident in critical activities. For mapping is needed to know the operational context, considering culture and deviations ...
Effects of Non-uniform Blockage Ratio and Obstacle Spacing on Flame Propagration in Premixed H2/O2 mixtures
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2019)
Most of the current research in flame propagation and deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT), including large and small-scale experiments, have analyzed the influence of obstacles uniformly distributed on the explosion ...
Probabilistic Risk Assessment Tool Applied in Facility Layout Optimization
(2016-06-01)
The severity of several chemical incidents occurred in the recent past has been attributed to improper layout arrangement or proximity of a chemical facility to a densely populated area although this is not a new problem. ...