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Considering Multiple Initiating Events in a LOPA
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) is a risk reduction evaluation methodology well suited to consider hazard scenarios with multiple initiating events. The presence of multiple initiators increases the likelihood that a ...
Cybersecurity Consideration in Process Hazard Analysis
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
Traditional process hazard analysis (PHA), such as Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) studies, typically includes a systematic assessment of initiating events and consequences affecting process facilities. Relationships among ...
Evergreening - Managing risk in the face of constant change
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
Change is constant in processing facilities such as refineries and petrochemical plants. The drivers for change may vary from investment decisions, operational productivity initiatives, regulatory and compliance requirements, ...
Addressing the Security Requirements in Functional Safety Standard IEC 61511-1:2016
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
The 2016 edition of IEC 61511-1: 2016 added two new requirements regarding the security of safety instrumented systems (SIS). The first requirement states that “a security risk assessment shall be carried out to identify ...
Managing the Risk of Organizational Incidents
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
In Reason’s, Managing the Risk of Organizational Incidents, `Reason draws on the work of other authors, and how awareness of the operating consequences of action is more important that causes of error. It is the intention ...
Facility Security – Are you ready??
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
Chemical Facility Security has become increasingly important after the World Trade Center attacks in New York City and a continued list of other terrorist attacks over the last 17 years on many other facilities and targets ...
Fire Incidents at Ethylene Oxide Reactors in Ethylene Glycol Plant
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
In September 26, 2012 NYPC Mailiao Ethylene Glycol (EG-4) plant reported a fire incident on the spool piece flanges of inlet pipeline of both two Ethylene Oxide (EO) reactors, R-1/R-2, which were founded 43 minutes later ...
Risk Based Process Safety for Semiconductor Fabrication Operations
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
Most semiconductor manufacturing facilities do not contain quantities of highly hazardous chemicals in threshold quantities sufficient to be subject to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration's (OSHA) Process ...
CAROL - Robotic Catalyst Removal
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
WorleyParsons has developed the industry’s first commercial robot for catalyst unloading from refinery and petrochemical vessels. The development of CAROLTM (Catalyst Removal Amphirol) responds to increasingly stringent ...
Analytics and Artificial Intelligence: Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection - A case study from the financial sector with application to process safety
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
This presentation reports on a case study from the financial sector with application to challenges in the field of process safety. Banks collect massive amounts of data from routine financial transactions. Some of the data ...