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Property Insurance Company Evaluation of Combustible Dust Hazards

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
This paper will discuss some of the key factors that FM Global insurance engineering representatives use in evaluating combustible dust hazards at...

Analyzing Historic Process Data to Identify Near Misses and Warning Signs: Examples from the Buncefield Incident

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
Process data is often analyzed during the investigation of industrial fires and explosions. Our analyses often reveal near misses or warning signs...

How to Evaluate Process Safety Culture

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
At first glance it may seem that organizational culture is subjective and therefore difficult to measure. Indeed, even the definition of culture...

Results of Root Cause Analyses of Spring Operated Pressure Relief Valve Failures

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
A subset of 44 failed spring operated pressure relief valves (SORV) from a set of over 5600 Process Equipment Reliability Database (PERD) proof tests...

Process Safety in the Face of Significant Change

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
Development of an effective process safety culture requires employees to look beyond intended performance, to their own nonconscious assumptions...

Update of “Guidelines to Vapor Cloud Explosion, Pressure Vessel Burst, BLEVE and Flash Fire Hazards”

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
The first edition of the CCPS book Guidelines to Evaluating Vapor Cloud Explosions, Flash Fired and BLEVEs was published in 1994. Since that time...

A Resilience Assessment Framework for Infrastructure and Economic Systems: Quantitative and Qualitative Resilience Analysis of Petrochemical Supply Chains to a Hurricane

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
In recent years, the nation has recognized that critical infrastructure protection should consider not only the prevention of disruptive events, but...

Strategies & Tactics for Mechanical Integrity Budget Battles

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
Effective mechanical integrity programs are essential to assure safe operation of plant facilities. The current economic downturn is difficult and...

Geographical Societal Risk: A Useful Method for Understanding Societal Risk

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
Dutch legislation on safety and land use planning: Being a densely populated country, the Netherlands has extensive experience using safety...

Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Experience with the Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
As a result of several combustible dust explosions in the past decade, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) initiated a...

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