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Buckets to Disaster: What to Avoid in Making Critical Decisions
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
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 ...
Tsunami as a credible hazard – A case for safety
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Seismic sea wave, commonly called a Tsunami is caused due to large scale displacement of water column. The stored energy due to the wave impacting the plant equipment on the shoreline is enormous. In the recent past tsunamis, ...
Benchmarking Safety Culture Survey Practices in the Chemical Process Industry
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 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 ...
Demonstrating the effectiveness of non-metallic riser flange covers for diverting leaks and jet fires using computational fluid dynamics
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
The current oil and gas industry market conditions put greater emphasis of finding cost-effective design solutions while maintaining the same emphasis on process safety. Riser flange covers potentially provide a weight-saving ...
Process Safety Competence Assurance
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Competence is a critical component of an organization’s success—one that is also very relevant for process safety. In fact, process safety competence can help ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and can be an ...
Prediction on Emergency Evacuation Orders Using Naïve Bayes Classification and Deep Learning
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Emergency response to chemical accidents is proceeded in order of prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. One of the methods of response is emergency evacuation orders. In order to minimize the loss ...
Transient Large-Scale Chlorine Releases in the Jack Rabbit II Field Tests: Rainout Source Data Analysis from Video Records
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Sponsored by the Chemical Security Analysis Center (CSAC) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the U.S. Department of Defense, Transport Canada, and Defence Research ...
TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING OPERATOR RESPONSE TO ABNORMAL OPERATIONS
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Safety alarms are among the most commonly identified instrumented safeguards implemented to reduce the risk of hazardous events. Unlike safety interlocks or permissives, alarm safeguards are entirely dependent on operator ...
A decade of research collaboration on safety climate at Texas A&M University
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Over the past decade, faculty in the Department of Psychology who specialize in industrial-organizational (IO) psychology1 have collaborated with the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center on the topic of safety climate2 ...
A Review of the 2012 Reynosa Gas Plant Explosion
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)