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Inherently Safer Design – Not Only about Reducing Consequences!

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
Process risk is a function of both the likelihood of occurance of an incident, and of the consequences of the incident. There is a common perception...

Inherent Safety In Front End Engineering

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
The best time to apply the principles of inherent safety is during the early stages of a design. In particular it is at the early stages that the ?...

Specifying Reliability Performance to Meet PSM Expectations

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) and Mechanical Integrity (MI) programs are two of the fourteen elements that the Process Safety Management (PSM)...

Near Miss Reporting Behavior and the Safety Climate – A Scenario-Based Study

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
In the aftermath of the March, 2005 incident at BP's Texas City Refinery, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board cited concerns about ?the effectiveness of...

Methods for Precluding the Existence of a Dust-Explosion Hazard

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
The "generic" standard for preventing fires and explosions involving combustible dusts is the National Fire Protection Association publication NFPA...

The Buncefield Explosion: Were the Resulting Overpressures Really Unforeseeable?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
On Sunday 11 December 2005, a severe unconfined vapour cloud explosion followed by several tank fires occurred at the Buncefield oil storage depot in...

Implementation of PSM In Capital Projects

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
It is critical to embed Process Safety Management in the capital project system to help achieve a safe start-up. This is the foundation for assuring...

Secondary Dust Explosions: How to Prevent Them or Mitigate Their Effects?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
Dust explosions are frequent and particularly devastating in the process industries, and secondary dust explosions are the most severe ones. A...

It's People, Stupid! Human Factors In Incident Investigation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
People have inherent strengths and weaknesses which can affect their performance. Issues such as fatigue, emotional stress, and motivation can...

Assessment of Human Elements to Avoid Accidents and Failures In Task Perform, Cognitive and Intuitive Schemes

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
Analysis of the activity of the operator in the task of the industry requires the establishment of definitions regarding the Human Reliability,...

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