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PSM Metrics Impact on Process Safety Culture

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
Several years ago our facility recognized the need to expand from a PSM Program managed by a small group to a PSM Culture owned by the full facility...

The Importance of Mechanical Integrity Inspection for Successful Capital Projects

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
It has been a common practice in the petrochemical industry to wait until a new process unit has been placed into service before performing the...

What to Do When Nothing Has Happened?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
Often during a Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) or a Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) study, historical information indicates no occurrences of a...

Good Engineering Practices - Inspection and Test Frequencies

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
The "Process Safety Management" standard of the Occupational Safety and Health Act [OSHA] requires that "The frequency of inspections and...

Risk Assessment of a Propane Storage Sphere: Maintain or Decommission?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
Ten years ago, the authors were asked to assist a utility with a risk management decision. Specifically, the utility was considering whether they...

LIKELIHOOD of IGNITION of RELEASED FLAMMABLES: CCPS Book—Scope, Status, and Relationship to Other CCPS Books

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
When a flammable material is released from process equipment, the result may be a fire, an explosion, or the release may simply dissipate with no...

Optimizing a Mechanical Integrity Program Using Risk Based Inspection – a Case Study

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
The Risk Based Inspection (RBI) process delivers a calculated risk value for each fixed equipment item in a facility. Fixed equipment risk values are...

The Challenge to Implement and Maintain An Effective PSM Program

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
While researching to develop responses to help a client respond to OSHA citations, we discovered a presentation to the same industry segment from...

A Frequency Based Approach to Hole Size Selection for Consequence Analysis

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
When performing a consequence based facility siting study, it is often necessary to choose a criteria for the maximum credible hole size that is the...

An Update on OSHA's PSM National Emphasis Programs

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
Since 2007, OSHA has initiated two major National Emphasis Programs (NEPs) in process safety. The Petroleum Refinery Process Safety Management NEP (...

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