The Basis of Safety
Why your plant is safe, and how to maintain it
Features - Risk & Safety
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....
Hazard Identification: Planning for Success
A look at the hazard and operability study (HAZOP).
Managing ALARP in Major Engineering Projects
How to identify threats and achieve ALARP on a big scale
HAZZZZOP?
Believe it or not, the role of HAZOP scribe has much to offer up-and-coming chemical engineers
Process vs Personal Safety
Process safety and personal safety need to be managed in very different ways
Safety Investigations are Prone to Bias
Bias can have a significant safety effect, both in the causes of accidents and in the way we inve...
Big Bangs - and How to Avoid Them
Highlights from the Loss Prevention Bulletin's special issue on fireworks and explosives.
Spontaneous Combustion of Tortilla Chip Waste: an Unknown Known?
A analysis of a fire caused by spontaneous combustion of food waste at a factory in Texas.
The Long View on Longford
20 years on from Australia’s infamous gas explosion, what have we learned, and what should we do ...
What Goes Around Comes Around
Cyber threats to process safety: industry must share lessons
Step Up and Share
As lessons emerge following the Grenfell Tower review, chemical engineers have a duty to share th...
Dame Judith Hackitt and Erin Johnson talk fire safety
Chemical engineers are well suited to assessing fire safety by applying systems thinking and a ri...
Using Bow Ties to Classify Barriers
Not all parts of a process safety management system are of equal importance
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