Process safety is about understanding hazards and risk, managing risk by providing the appropriate layers of protection to reduce the frequency and severity of incidents, and learning from incidents ...

While intention is admirable, it’s actions that count. And when it comes to process safety, 66% of companies cited disparities between process safety goals and reality, according to a report from ...

The importance of implementing loss prevention and mitigation techniques that are specifically written for the chemical processing industry Implementing loss prevention and mitigation techniques that ...

Is it safer to work at or live near a chemical plant today than it was 20 years ago, before Bhopal? Maybe. "I can't say such an accident won't happen in the U.S., but it would be hard to occur," says ...

Chemical process safety and control in reactors remains an essential field of study given the inherent risks associated with exothermic and potentially runaway reactions. Recent advancements have ...

Can you please introduce yourself and tell us about your background in process safety testing? My name is John Weaver. I earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Penn State University many years ...

Over the past few decades, various control disciplines like process, batch, motion and discrete control have been consolidated into a single, common automation architecture. This integration has ...

This chapter describes recent efforts by the chemical and petroleum industries to define process safety metrics suited to the needs of their enterprises. It then discusses how such concepts can be ...