The Imperfections of Accident Analysis
Four key ideas that help us understand the real world of work.
Features - Risk & Safety
Net Zero and Safety
Chemengers have a huge part to play in ensuring the safety of low-carbon technologies, says Julie...
Delta HAZOP: Revalidation and Focus on Major Accident Hazards
Paul Kenny shares insights on a new HAZOP technique trialled at ExxonMobil’s Fawley site in the U...
Book review: Organising for Safety; How Structure Creates Culture
Andrew Hopkins AFIChemE; ISBN: 9781925894158; Wolters Kluwer; 2019; £57.22
Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center: So Much Achieved and Much More to Do
On the 30th anniversary of the industrial disaster that killed his wife, Mike O’Connor looks at t...
Keep it All In: How to Bund with Confidence
Kevin Wheeler explains bunding’s vital role and offers a practical summary of issues to consider ...
Chemical Decommissioning: Safety Challenges
What are the most significant safety hurdles in chemical decommissioning?
Reflections on Banqiao
On the anniversary of the Banqiao Dam disaster of 1975, Fiona Macleod reflects on a visit to the ...
Houston…We Have a Checklist
Why the humble checklist was essential during the Apollo space programme.
From Black Books to Learning
The challenge of learning from incidents: from awareness to identify, transfer, and sustain
QRA: Ten Golden Rules
Glenn Pettitt and Martyn Ramsden explain how quantitative risk assessment can be used to determin...
Degrees of Separation
Andy Brazier explains why process isolation is more complicated than you might think
LPB: Learning from Incidents
A look at how the Loss Prevention Bulletin and its Editorial Panel operate
Maintaining Chronic Unease
Fighting complacency and drift by using process safety performance indicators to establish and ma...
Refinery Safety Failures – Attitude or Engineering?
How proper design is key to avoiding process accidents
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