In the book Fail Safe by Eugene Burdick,
failure of a small electronic component results in a mistaken
attack on Russia with an atomic bomb. Today, we attempt to
avoid similar catastrophic operating failures in the oil and
chemical industries through critical situation management
(CSM).
CSM is used to avoid major upsets and accidents that
may result from equipment failure or operator error. In a
recent e-mail newsletter received from ARC,1 CSM
is defined as:
"Critical situation
management (CSM), sometimes called abnormal condition
management or abnormal situation management, is a set of
software functions
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