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Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center: Research Program, Current Activities, and Future Direction
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
The Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center was established to produce engineers and practitioners trained in process safety; to provide its members and others with the research base needed to compete successfully in the ...
Incident Database and Macroanalysis to Help Set Safety Direction
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
This paper describes the framework of an incident database and how incident data can be used to help set safety direction. It includes history, database design, and data collection and utilization. Examples illustrate how ...
EPA Perspective on Lessons Learned from the Joint Accident Investigations by OSHA and EPA
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
Using Incident Investigations as a Program Assessment Tool
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
Manifesting Design-Based Parameters into Post-Construction Inspection Planning
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
through improved detectability. As important, however, are: 1) the establishment of design-based inspections and tests, including type, extent, and frequency; and 2) the minimum limits of acceptability and the technical ...
Summary of Process Safety-Related Research at Michigan Technological University
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
The Hazards Laboratory at Michigan Tech is currently focusing on three research areas:flammability, reactivity and safety during conceptual design. In the area of flammability, the laboratory supports a 20-liter combustion ...
Ergonomics Pilot Program for the Petrochemical Industry
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
Positive results can be achieved through an approach incorporating certain core elements that are implemented in a simple, informal, site-specific manner. The approach presented in this paper sets a framework for a worksite ...
ISA S84--Use and What's Next
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
The ANSI/ISA S84 standard (Application of Safety Instrumented Systems for the Process Industry) was approved in 1996. It was written for those involved in the design, manufacture, selection, application, installation, ...
Applicability of the OECD Dictionary/Thesaurus of Risk Assessment of Chemical Accidents.
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 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 ...
Synergistic Programs and Activities Benefitting Process Safety at the Texas Engineering Experiment Station
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
The Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) is a state agency within The Texas A&M University System. It is responsible for promotion of and propagation of results of Engineering and related research done directly and ...