Technical Presentations

Reducing Process Safety Events – an Approach Proven By Sustainable Results

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 27, 2017

The Dow Chemical Company hasÂ significantly reduced the number of Tier 1 Process Safety events from 69 in 2008 to an average of 10 in 2013-2015...

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Battle for the Soul of Process Safety: How to Align the Brain and the Organization to Improve PS Outcomes

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 27, 2017

Conventional wisdom holds that the Process Safety Goals of the Organization and the Individual are roughly in tune: the Organization wants to keep PS...

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Leadership in Catastrophic Incident Prevention – Using Organizational Data to Assess and Respond to High Reliability Loss Prevention Precursors

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 27, 2017

Catastrophic Incidents usually occur after a series of early warning signals, often subtle, are overlooked. Some organizations have been very...

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La Divulgación a Las Partes Interesadas Elemento Clave De Las Estrategias De Seguridad De Proceso. Experiencias De Aprendizaje En LatinoaméRica

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 27, 2017

Tener una buena relación con las partes interesadas apropiadas, durante toda la vida de funcionamiento de una instalación es uno de los...

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2017 AIChE Spring Meeting and 13th GCPS AGILE Award Keynote Address

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 27, 2017

The 2017 AIChE Spring Meeting and 13th GCPS AGILE Keynote Address will be presented by AGILE award recipient John Y. Televantos, Partner, Arsenal Capital Partners.

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Atmospheric Tank Failures: Mechanisms and an Unexpected Case Study

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

April 13, 2016

Most of the literature on catastrophic failures of low pressure tanks focuses on the ignition of explosive mixtures in the vapor space of those tanks...

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State-Based Control and the Value Delivered from the Initial Design through the Operating Life of the Facility

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

April 13, 2016

This paper examines the attributes of state based control and the value delivered to manufacturing from the initial design through the operating life...