Loss Prevention
Adopting global functional safety standards
Potential operational savings justifies the initial investment
Designing for pressure releases during fires—Part 2
Wetted equipment requires a different calculation approach for fire relief loads
What can you do to enhance the safety of operations?
The US Chemical Safety Board's fatal blast report makes it imperative to take a serious look at your plant's loss prevention practices, particularly the instrumentation and sensors that provide critical information for prompt action
Choosing the wrong flame arrestor can prevent capacity enhancement
This Iranian gas facility debottlenecked its process and increased production
Multi-layered holistic protection promotes plant productivity and safety
A hazard study is not a discrete event, but the starting point to improve overall availability
The evolution of a modern software system
How Web-based software applies to process safety management
Is 'junk science' invading accident prevention programs?
Questionable practices may jeopardize plant performance
What HAZOP studies cannot do
Safety experts have extensively used this investigative methodology to identify possible hazards with new designs and operating units; however, these studies do have limits
Consider oxygen monitoring systems designed for safety and reliability
Programmable automation controllers can give added performance
The Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center – the first ten years
Founded from a tragedy, this organization is leading the way in process safety
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