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Integrating Supply Chain and Facility Risk Analyses For Improved Business Decisions
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Typically, business supply chain risks are managed separately from fixed facility risks. However, where significant fixed site risk reduction can negatively impact a supply chain, a study that addresses both the supply ...
Potential Impacts to Process Safety Management from Mergers, Acquisitions, Downsizing, and Re-Engineering
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Significant potential impacts to process safety management performance can be generated by corporate organizational mergers, acquisitions, downsizing, and re-engineering. This paper explores a selection of consequences ...
If You Can't Measure, You Can't Contol It ProSmart
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Convinced of the importance of good process safety management (PSM), the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) began a project in 1993 to measure the effectiveness of management systems. The ultimate objective was to ...
Designs that Lacked Inherent Safety: Case Histories
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
The fundamentals of Inherently Safer Design were not fully appreciated in the initial design (or re-design) in the following series of case histories. Two case histories involving the basic element of plant layout to ...
Updated CCPS Investigation Guidelines Book
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Incident investigation standards and performance criteria continue to improve. In recognition, the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) undertook a major project to upgrade and update the Incident Investigation ...
“Application of Critical Thinking Concepts to Determining the Most Likely Scenario “
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
Chemical process incidents are typically accompanied by a complex chain of events involving multiple breakdowns of safeguards in “tightly coupled” systems. When identifying and determining the most likely scenario(s), there ...
POTENTIAL PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT LESSONS FROM THE BHOPAL DISASTER
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
From Experimental Data Via Kinetic Model to Predicting Reactivity and Assessing Reaction Hazards
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
There is no other way to get original data regarding chemical reaction but experimental study. What kind of experimental technique to use depends on the aim of a study. Nevertheless, there is one almost universal method ...
Offshore Risk Assessment - Simple or Complex?
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Risk assessment for offshore facilities began shortly after the Piper Alpha incident in 1988. At this time, the UK Health and Safety Executive issued rules for Safety Cases for offshore installations. Safety Cases are now ...
The Use of Aerosol Formation, Flammability, and Explosion Information for Heat Transfer Fluid Selection
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
The devastating consequences of aerosol/mist explosions have been widely documented, and there are currently efforts to understand the mechanisms of the formation and explosion of such aerosols. Heat transfer fluids are ...