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Identifying Safety Culture Deficiencies in Facilities with the Potential for High Consequence/Low Probability Events
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
One of the key underlying causes of most major accidents can be traced to deficiencies within the organization’s safety culture. The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has directly identified safety culture deficiencies in their ...
SIL Analysis for Manufacturers of SIF Components
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Safety systems comprising of electric, electronic, and/or programmable components have been used in various industries over the years. A typical safety instrumented function (SIF) consists of a sensor to detect a process ...
Reducing Project Lifecycle Cost with an Integrated Safety Lifecycle Suite
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
The international functional safety standard IEC 61511 provides the safety lifecycle as a steadfast guideline to assess and mitigate risk for manufacturing processes including refineries, chemical, petrochemical, pulp and ...
Review: Overview of flame retardant additives, mechanism of flame retardancy and characterization techniques for polymer nanocomposites
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Fire retardancy of plastics is becoming increasingly important due to the widespread application of plastics in daily life and the subsequent fire hazard associated with it. A wide variety of flame retardant additives have ...
Commonly Encountered Problems in the Safety-Focused Design of Capital Projects
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
The design and construction of a new building is often a significant investment for capital projects. As a result, there are typically many competing design considerations, such as: land use, interconnectivity, access for ...
The future of process safety
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Process safety has been practiced for several decades, but it is only in recent years that it has become an established discipline. During this evolution we have seen the development of risk assessment techniques and ...
Employee Participation in Preventing Catastrophic Chemical Hazard
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
This presentation will focus on the value of employee participation in preventing catastrophic chemical hazards. It will include discussion on why process hazard analyses are ignored or not followed-up; how in some cases ...
How and When Do I Validate, Proof Test and Re-Validate My SIS logic Solver?
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Re-Energizing Industry Risk Management and Coordination and Communication
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
EPA promulgated its risk management program (RMP) rule in the mid-90s when many companies invested a lot of effort in compliance with the rule, coordinating with local emergency planners and responders, and communicating ...
Optimizing Fire & Gas Detection Coverage and Layout using 3D mapping tools
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
A Fire & Gas Detection System enables detection of a gas release or a fire scenario and raises alarms and/or initiates appropriate control action (system isolation, deluge, facility shutdown, etc.). This serves to minimize ...