Browsing MKOPSC Process Safety Symposium by Type "Papers"
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)This presentation describes an ongoing EPA-OECD project whose goal is to improve understanding and communications in regard to the application of risk assessment processes to accidental chemical releases. The project ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)The fourteen elements of OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) program underpin so much of facility operations. PSM programs grow in complexity over time and can become increasingly disembodied from the operational elements ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)In process industries, the application of functional safety in preventing major incidents is a well- established practice. The functional safety standard IEC 61511[1] is applied to the safety instrumented system (SIS) ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)Ethylene treaters are widely used in the petrochemical industry to remove impurities from ethylene feedstock imported from pipeline networks or storage caverns. The safety concerns of dense phase ethylene treaters due to ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)Leading indicators can be defined as safety-related variables that proactively measure organizational characteristics with the intention of predicting, and subsequently avoiding, process safety incidents. Leading indicators ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)Onshore oil and gas operators face challenging cost efficiency targets while pressing for higher production volumes. Within this tension is a need to reduce planned facility foot prints while maintaining primary focus of ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)This paper focuses on the consideration of an unbiased approach to assessing risk to push the industry towards proactively addressing risk rather than reactively allowing cognitive biases to drive process safety culture ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)The common rift between academia and industry has existed in all fields of engineering. However, ultimately the rift can be seen as more of a lag; it is not so much a question of “academia is not the real world” but rather ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)The use of the bowtie diagram has become widespread in the oil and gas industry as a communication and identification tool for hazardous events. The technique has proven to be very useful in the determination of safety ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)Asset Integrity (also referred to as Mechanical Integrity) findings remain on top of OSHA’s citation list during PSM inspections. Violations most frequently found include failure to address equipment deficiencies, lack of ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)The discipline of process safety management is mature. For example, the OSHA (the United States Occupational Safety & Health Administration) standard was promulgated in May 1992; the standard is older than people who are ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)After a number of recent incidents involving the transportation and storage of hazardous materials, many industry end-users wish to understand their level of risk exposure during the supply chain. This exposure can either ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)Recent events pointed out the relevance of threats deriving from natural events impacting on chemical and process facilities where relevant quantities of hazardous substances are present. The framework of climate change ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)High-performance computing has changed the world on its head with capabilities of image processing and artificial intelligence. The world of Energy and chemical has also changed with the adoption of these highly complex ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)The following article approaches a safe plant layout design problem based on a bacterial-foraging optimization algorithm. Our approach finds the position in the two dimensional plane for each main process unit and evaluates ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)Many companies are developing Behavioral Safety Process to improve safety. In 1995, the Montell Jackson plant designed and implemented a behavioral Safety Process using the expertise of Terry McSween and Quality Safety ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)Safety culture surveys assess employees’ shared perceptions of the policies, procedures, and practices concerning safety. Benchmarking is the process of comparing one’s business processes and performance metrics to industry ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)The purpose of this workshop is to show the benefits of having a baseline Hazardous Area Classification assessment and compliance assessment for a facility processing flammable hydrocarbons having limited personnel resources. ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)The current approach used to analyze fired heaters during a Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) is inefficient and outdated. Fired heaters can be one of the more complex systems evaluated in a PHA, however they certainly aren’t ...