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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 ...
Impact of Basic Process Chemistry Issues on Process Safety
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
The greatest opportunities for development of an inherently safer chemical manufacturing process occur at the earliest stages of research and development, in the selection of the chemical synthesis route for the product. ...
Crosswalk of Human Reliability Methods for Offshore Oil Incidents
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2019)
Human reliability analysis (HRA) has long been employed in nuclear power applications to account for the human contribution to safety. HRA is used qualitatively to identify and model sources of human error and quantitatively ...
PPE – Can you have too much of a good thing?
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2019)
Specifying Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) after a hazard has been identified is a critical aspect of a facility’s ability to protect their workers. In a chemical manufacturing facility, manual operations and maintenance ...
Fire and Gas Hazard Mapping Continues to Require Engineering Judgment
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2019)
It is becoming increasingly common to use computer applications and software tools to aid engineers in designing fire and gas detector layouts. These tools help designers optimize layouts as well as verify, quantify and ...
Life After a Risk-Based Inspection Implementation
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2019)
Many chemical and oil and gas organizations have Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) programs in the form of the American Petroleum Institute (API) API Recommended Practice (RP) 580 Risk-Based Inspection program. Numerous organizations ...
The Future of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB): Opportunities and Challenges1
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2019)
Major, preventable chemical incidents in the United States continue, many of which have caused injuries, fatalities, community harm, and damage to industrial infrastructure. Since 1998, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) ...
Comparison of safety indexes for chemical processes under uncertainty
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2019)
The fatal consequences of industrial incidents have made evident the need for suitable tools to develop inherently safer process designs. Traditionally, in a process design project, the evaluation of safety aspects is left ...