Process Safety Culture

Safety Considerations in the Design of Small Systems

Karen Simpson — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:54:54 +0000

Small-scale laboratory systems and pilot plants present unique challenges in process safety. This article offers strategies to overcome these difficulties while prioritizing a robust safety culture.

January

2025

The Bhopal Gas Tragedy — Part I: Process Safety Culture

Gennady Shafirovich — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:34:03 +0000

The Bhopal gas tragedy stands as a stark reminder of the critical importance of process safety management. Forty years after the disaster, this article emphasizes the significance of the event and what it reveals about the prevailing process safety culture.

September

2024

Process Safety Beacon: Battery-Powered Devices Can Be Ignition Sources

Karen Simpson — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 17:38:36 +0000

Battery-powered devices may present ignition sources that require special attention.

July

2023

Chronic Unease — The Missing Ingredient in Safety Leadership

Karen Simpson — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:07:29 +0000

To achieve a robust safety culture, a sense of chronic unease within an organization’s management can help develop a healthy preoccupation with failure in near misses, risk assessments, and audits.

February

2023

Walk the Line

cms_mathm — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 21:14:14 +0000

November 10, 2022

Walk the line is a description of all of the things that operators do to make certain that they understand where energy will go when transferred. It presents the fundamental duties of operators. Walk the line means that operators have completed a field assessment of a system before changing the operational state.

Building a Process Safety Culture: a Chat with Acelen’s Celso Ferreira

Sonja Bradfield — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 16:23:07 +0000

October 14, 2022

Learn how Acelen has a close eye on process safety at every level of its operations, as it processes 300,000 barrels of oil each day at its Mataripe refinery.

Industry Interviews

Audit Process Safety for Compliance and Performance

Karen Simpson — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:59:18 +0000

Process safety audits can provide an important feedback mechanism to help maintain compliance with regulations and improve process safety program performance.

August

2022

Limiting Reactive Feeds By Inherently Safe Design Methodology

Site Administrator — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 12:30:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

April 13, 2022

Semi-batch chemical processing often involves feeding reactive materials into jacketed, agitated vessels producing exothermic reactions. Reactant...

MOC 101 – Fundamentals for Effective Change Management

Site Administrator — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:15:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

April 12, 2022

Management of Change (MOC) is the cornerstone of a successful risk-based process safety (RBPS) program. Safe operation and maintenance of facilities...

Cultura De Seguridad De Procesos | Una Experiencia Mixta Para Pensar El Futuro: Cómo Liderar Culturas Orientadas a La Disciplina, En Escenarios De Creciente Virtualidad

Site Administrator — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:30:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

April 11, 2022

Durante la Pandemia de Covid-19 el mayor esfuerzo y compromiso organizacional estuvo orientado a dar respuesta a la gran emergencia global. Pero...

Integrating Cybersecurity into the Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) Program

Site Administrator — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

April 11, 2022

With industryâs increasing reliance on computer systems for basic process control and safety functions, processes become more...

API Process Safety Assessment Program (PSSAP(r)): Using Assessments to Test Your Process Safety Management Program

Site Administrator — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

April 11, 2022

The American Petroleum Institute (API) and the U.S. oil and natural gas industry have long been committed to protecting the health and safety of our...

Developing the Process Safety Community: A Chat with Ecolab’s Manju Parkhe

Evan Flach — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 20:45:30 +0000

December 10, 2021

Hear from Ecolab’s global engineering leader about process safety trends in the Asia-Pacific region and about the company’s path to process safety leadership.

Industry Interviews

Improving Process Safety Culture: A Chat with Reliance Industries’ YK Lodha

Evan Flach — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 17:59:05 +0000

November 23, 2021

Learn how one company is transforming its process safety culture, and hear predictions about where process safety practices, technology, and related regulatory issues are headed.

Industry Interviews

Making Zero a Reality: Selecting & Measuring the “Right” Zero

Site Administrator — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

April 22, 2021

Since the inception of the Process Industries (PI), leaders of these organizations have accepted some level of fires, explosions, releases to the...