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    • Bendixen, Lisa (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      One critical area of uncertainty in toxic risk assessment studies is human dose-response relationships, particularly for acute exposures. Probit equations are lacking/questionable for many materials, and the use of ERPG ...
    • Bond, Ken T. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      At the present time, we have two approved USA National Standards on Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS); ANSI/ISA S84.01 and ANSI/ISA S91.01. In addition, there are two international standards presently under development on ...
    • Harrington, Kenneth H. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      To maximize corporate value, companies should not view environmental, health, and safety (EHS) as a cost of doing business, but as a potential source of economic value. Establishing value includes determining the risk ...
    • Mannan, Sam; West, Harry (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 mandated the development of regulations for the protection of workers, public, and the environment from catastrophic releases and chemical plant accidents. As a result, the US Environmental ...
    • Makris, Jim (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      EPA is supportive of the concept of "Making Safety Second Nature." Companies should strive to practice safety as a culture, not as something that is done because regulations require it. Elements in the Risk Management ...
    • West, Harry (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      Extensive reactivity data for a particular mixture of chemicals at the potential operating conditions of a process under consideration are rarely available. The impact of vessel size, catalytic contaminants, and other ...
    • Sanders, Roy (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
    • Rosenthal, Irv; Lowe, Bob; Kleindorfer, Paul; Helsing, Lyse (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      Epidemiological studies have made major contributions to the understanding and prevention of human disease. They are particularly valuable in regard to discovering the risk factors associated with low probability-high ...
    • Baldwin, John T. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      Over the last decade a number of new standards for data exchange have been initiated in Europe, the U.S., and Japan. Of particular interest to the process industries are the Application Protocols (AP's) under ISO 10303 ...
    • Phillips, Betty (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      Employees in today's environment are often times challenged with changing tasks and activities, many of which pose new or different physical demands. The opportunity for a health/ safety professional to examine how individuals ...
    • Kletz, Trevor A. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      From the 1960s onwards the chemical and oil industries developed and used a number of new safety techniques which, in time, became second nature to those who used them. They included the use of QRA for deciding priorities, ...
    • Fortune, Gaylon (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      The Mary Kay O=Connor Process Safety Center was formally established at Texas A&M in 1995. This presentation will outline the activities leading up to the establishment of the Center, and the subsequent activities of the ...
    • Melhem, G. A. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      Effective thermal hazard evaluation requires an integrated approach to assessment of chemical reactivity. A variety of theoretical and experimental methods can be used to determine the thermal stability of specific compounds ...
    • Czerwinski, John; May, Gerry (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
    • Howard, Walter B. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      Much process safety technology has been developed through the years and now serves as the basis for present-day design standards for process safety in the process industries. This has come about through carefully executed ...
    • Moderski, Mark; Mahalingam, Sankar; Eidson, Mark A. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      The hazards identified with a new or modified chemical or petroleum refining process can be mitigated in numerous ways. If a system cannot be designed so that it is inherently safe, then other safeguards such as instrumented ...
    • Reynolds, John T. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      Twenty-one petroleum and petrochemical companies are currently sponsoring a project to develop risk- based inspection (RBI) methodology for application in the refining and petrochemical industry. This paper describes that ...
    • Unwin, Stephen D.; Roberts, Robert R. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
    • Bullemer, Peter; Nimmo, Ian (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
    • Slap, Albert J.; Hillman, Daniel; Moore, David A. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      Ensuring the proper response to emergencies is an ideal application for expert systems. Rules can be developed that comprise the appropriate response to either preplanned, site-specific incident scenarios or general incidents ...