The material shown here has been extracted from the ebook 52 Process Safety Moments and the book Offshore Safety Management . Personnel transfer baskets are used to move personnel from platforms and rigs to and from service boats.Net BasketsThe traditional type of basket, sometimes referred to a Billy Pugh basket, consists of ropes attached to a hook at the top and a circular frame at the…
This Safety Moment is one in a series to do with the process safety profession. Other publications in the series are Safety Moment #54: The Process Safety Professional, Safety Moment #79: The Process Safety Consultant and Chapter 20 of the book Process Risk and Reliability Management. Further guidance is also provided in the ebook 52 Process Safety Moments which contains …
A behavior-based safety (BBS) program aims to make permanent changes in the manner in which people work. Safety becomes a way of life that is baked into everyone's behavior. It is important to recognize, however, that a BBS program does not attempt to chance who a person is, and it most certainly is not a pop-psychology program. The program is directed just to a person's actions.BBS helps…
Human performance is inherently unpredictable. Human beings are, after all, human. However, those working in industrial risk management have developed means of modeling types of human error, and the rates at which they can occur. One such technique is known as THERP (Technique for Human Error Rate Prediction). The method uses Boolean logic to model and predict human error rates. Hence it can be…
Fundamentally risk is subjective; it is not possible to define what level of risk is acceptable dispassionately and objectively. Any two risk scenarios are inherently different from one another due to people’s inherent understanding and acceptance of different types of risk, their emotions, memories, hopes and fears.Factors that affect risk perception include the following:Degree…
This primer provides a concise and structured overview of how major accident hazards are regulated around the world. It explains the foundations of process safety regulation, compares national and regional systems, and highlights global trends that are reshaping expectations in the process and energy industries.Written for engineers, operators, safety professionals, and policy analysts, it serves…
This Primer, Safety in Design, is priced at $25 (U.S.) It can be purchased here. The Kindle link is here.Summary of Safety in DesignSafety in Design is the foundation of every safe operation. It determines not only how a facility performs under normal conditions, but how it behaves when things go wrong. Decisions made during the design phase fix the limits of what operators…
The Primer Distillation is priced at $25 (U.S.) It can be purchased here. The Kindle link is here.HSE in the Process and Energy Industries offers a clear, concise, and authoritative guide to managing Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) programs in high-risk industrial settings. Designed for engineers, operations managers, safety professionals, and executives, this primer…
The Primer Distillation is priced at $25 (U.S.) It can be purchased here. The Kindle link is here.DistillationThis distillation primer provides a structured introduction to distillation principles, column design, reboilers, reflux systems, and operating practices used in refineries, chemical plants, and batch-processing industries. It is written for engineers, operators, and technical…
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Published: August 2021Imagine taking a magic carpet ride through northern Europe from east to west in Biblical. The area is circled on the map shown below — an area that Ugo Bardi rather unkindly refers to as a "vast regions of fog and swamps, inhabited by hairy Barbarians . . . the area we call today "Western Europe".You would fly from what is now western Russia, over the Ukraine, Belorussia,…
In Safety Moment #8: “But We’re Different, You Know” we show that risk analysis techniques have much in common across different parts of the process and energy industries. Lessons can be shared across industries such as oil refining, chemicals manufacture, pipeline operations and offshore oil and gas production. But, given that the first word in the phrase Process Safety Management (PSM) is…
This page provides a list of our posts on the theme of ‘The Process Safety Professional’.Constant ReadingAttributesThat Would Be TellingOnce Upon a TimeAdmiral Rickover's Seven RulesProcess Safety AssessmentsThe Importance of CalculationsMulti-Lingual HAZOPsThat Sinking FeelingProcess Safety Wisdom
We have developed a set of process safety management standard examples that are used to illustrate some of the concepts and ideas developed in our publications. Example 1 - Facility DesignA process consists of four operating units and a utilities section. A schematic of the system is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 - Facility Design
Example 2 - Process FlowFigure 2 shows…
This link takes you to the latest index.In August 2022 OSHA (the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration) provided the agenda for a Stakeholder Meeting, currently scheduled for October 12, 2022. The agenda for this meeting identifies 24 areas where OSHA is considering making modifications. The original 1992 (29 CFR 1910.119) regulation is provided here.We have been publishing…