Reflections on Banqiao
On the anniversary of the Banqiao Dam disaster of 1975, Fiona Macleod reflects on a visit to the ...
Features - Risk & Safety
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
The New Normal
Don’t let your organisation drift into failure through normalisation of deviance
Comics and Chemical Engineering
How story telling can help in preventing accidents.
Safety First
Allyson Woodford shares her personal journey with process safety
Operating Discipline: Maintaining the Basis of Safety
Examining the concept of operational discipline as the means by which we can maintain the basis o...
The Basis of Safety
Why your plant is safe, and how to maintain it
Limits of LOPA
Limitations and misuse of layers of protection analysis
Process Safety Models: Cheese, Chains or Cords?
Harvey Dearden offers an alternative to the 'Swiss cheese' model for representing process safety....
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