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 ...

Less than six percent of the total chlorine production in the U.S. is used for disinfecting drinking water and wastewater. However, this segment of the industry is responsible for the operation and maintenance of more than ...

The concept of informal benchmarking is a natural process of sharing and exchanging information on a subject of mutual interest among peers within and even outside one's company. However, only some corporations for significant ...

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. ...

Oil spills caused by damaged oil rigs, ruptured pipelines, and tankers can have immediate and long-term detrimental effects on marine systems and aquatic life. Herein we further develop the merit of an oil spill recovery ...

Knowing that risk is created by exposure to hazards, all members of the workforce have been enlisted to become “hazard recognizers.” Front-line workers and leaders alike are taught to observe their work environments for ...

This paper offers an approach to the development of techniques and tools to teach risk-based decision analysis and complex decision analysis to minimize the disastrous outcomes of critical decisions taking in the worlds ...

Over the last few years, the importance of establishing and maintaining a positive safety culture in the process industry and its impact on the safety performances of a company have strongly been emphasized by regulatory ...

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 ...