(153c) A New Look at Industrial Incidents Driving Operating Discipline in the Control Environment
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2019
2019 Spring Meeting and 15th Global Congress on Process Safety
Fuels and Petrochemicals Division - See Also The 31st Ethylene Producers, 19th Topical Conference on Gas Utilization, and 22nd Topical Conference on Refinery Processing
Process Control and Optimization Developments II
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 8:50am to 9:15am
Driving Operating Discipline in the Control Environment
By Tom Nolan, Senior Process Control Consultant, Emerson
Industrial incidents injure people and cause millions of dollars in damages. Several critical shortcomings have been identified as significant contributors in past incidents, and yet these incidents are still happening today—often resulting from the same contributing factors. Though incidents typically coalesce from several issues, there are common factors that can and should be managed. By leveraging dynamic alarm management and operating discipline in a state-based control environment, organizations can strike the necessary balance between human operation and automation support to enhance operability and improve safety performance.