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Process Safety Beacon: Fifteen Years of the Process Safety Beacon

Process Safety Beacon

November

2016

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In November 2001, the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) published the first issue of the Process Safety Beacon and distributed it to a few hundred people. Since then, 180 issues for process industry workers have been published (available at www.sache.org). Distribution has expanded to over 38,000 people, and many of those recipients share the Beacon with coworkers.

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