Looking to the future
What should we do to prevent the next process safety catastophe?
Features - Risk & Safety
Visual Hazop
HAZARD and operability (HAZOP) is a well understood, respected and employed technique in the proc...
How to Limit Amine Systems Failures
A review of incident trends reveals ways to reduce risks to production
Surviving the storm
Joan Cordiner, Technical and Change Manager, Syngenta Houston speaks to Helen Tunnicliffe
Who is Running Your Plant at 3 AM?
Safety experts John Bresland and Ian Travers review the recruitment and training of process staff...
Safety Review
IT often seems that safety incidents affecting our sectors come in waves, and this month there ha...
The ‘Watermelon’ Effect: Does a green dashboard mean a healthy facility?
Introducing the ‘watermelon’ effect, where process safety performance metrics appear ‘green’ sugg...
Cyber Security in the Asian Process Industry
Every production process has inherent risks. Cyber criminality is now one of these risks.
The Fire at Hickson & Welch, 21 September 1992
This September is the 25th anniversary of the accident at Hickson & Welch (H&W) which killed five...
How to Build a Dynamic Model
Why modelling is not just for the experts
How to Sample Heat Transfer Fluids
A practical guide to taking a representative sample, and doing so safely.
Quantified Risk and Uncertainty Analysis
Bayesian belief networks provide a powerful means for analysing uncertainty in terms of accident ...
BP Texas City: Lessons learned?
A look at how the process industries have changed, more than a decade on
How To Assess Functional Safety
Achieve safer, more efficient and more transparent projects whilst reducing project cost and ov...
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