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What You Ask For Isn’t Always What You Get
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
Engineers designing equipment for a new process routinely specify the required material of construction. But how can we be sure that the specified material of construction was actually installed? These three incidents ...
Integrating Ergonomics with Process-Engineering
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Experiences in the Regulation of Inherent Safety
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Inherent Safety is a worthwhile process risk management strategy to employ, and efforts to implement inherently safer strategies should be given first priority, as it is feasible. But regulating the use of inherent safety ...
A Simplified Risk-Based Approach for Analyzing Human Factors
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Human factors issues are critically important to process safety performance, and approaches are available to manage these risks. But most process safety management (PSM) programs do not formally address human factors as ...
An Inherent Technology to Mitigate Vapor Cloud Explosions
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Vapor cloud explosions have caused damage, injury, and death. Typically, an explosion of this type is the result of the ignition of a flammable cloud formed by the uncontrolled release of a flammable vapor into a semi-confined ...
Evaulating the Use of Third Parties to Measure Process Safety Management in Small Firms
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
This paper describes a pilot experiment designed to investigate the use of third party auditors to inspect facilities that use hazardous chemicals in order to evaluate compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency’s ...
Tolerable and Acceptable Risk: Establishing Quantitative Targets for the HPC Industry
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
This paper presents background and basis for establishing acceptable and tolerable levels of fatalistic risk specific to the Hydrocarbon/Petrochemical/Chemical (HPC) industry, and suggests both a target level of tolerable ...
Accident Databases: What Do They Tell Us?
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Economic Justification for Process Safety Systems
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Improving the overall safety within the process industries requires that process safety programs and projects get funded by plant management. In this day of increasing competitiveness in the global marketplace, the competition ...
System Simulation of a Management of Change process in a North Slope Oil Exploration Facility
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Our ability to manage the integrity of our facilities is directly related to our ability to manage change. Management of Change as a component of PSM has been part of the processing industry since 1994, yet in that time ...