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The £300 Industrial Secret that Changed the World
Martin Pitt looks at how acquiring gunpowder know-how shaped the world as we know it
Type: Feature
How to Assess Functional Safety
Achieve safer, more efficient and more transparent projects whilst reducing project cost and overrun
Type: Feature
Understanding powder testing techniques and their application
Type: Feature
THERE is a recurring number that despite magnificent developments in technical safety doesn’t seem to go away. That number is 80, and it relates to the percentage of incidents that in some way has been contributed to by a human. It is a recurring average across industry and in different settings. Looking on the bright side, it means that there is huge scope to make a significant improvement.
Type: Feature
The chemical sector and its digital journey
THERE has been a lot of media attention regarding the term Industry 4.0, what it means, and how it will revolutionise manufacturing in terms of flexibility, productivity, efficiency and customer interaction.
Type: Feature
Celebrating six decades of UCD Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering
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Three Problems and the Nanoscale Solution
Functional nanomaterials could tackle some of the world’s biggest problems
Type: Feature
Interreg FCE – Funding Cross-Channel Collaboration
Funding up for grabs for Anglo-French projects
Type: Feature
Piper Alpha: The Disaster in Detail
Fiona Macleod, chair of the Loss Prevention Bulletin Editorial Panel, and Stephen Richardson, an expert witness in the Piper Alpha, review the causes of the Piper Alpha disaster, the findings of the investigation, and challenge you, the reader, to answer a series of questions about safety where you work.
Type: Feature
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Rachel Cooke
A profile of Rachel Cooke, central programs engineering manager for Amazon in Europe, based in Luxembourg.
Type: Feature
Process Safety Models: Cheese, Chains or Cords?
Harvey Dearden offers an alternative to the 'Swiss cheese' model for representing process safety. The ‘suspended load’ might be considered as more complete in representing the idea of an integrated system.
Type: Feature
Don’t let your organisation drift into failure through normalisation of deviance
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A look at how the Loss Prevention Bulletin and its Editorial Panel operate
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The challenge of learning from incidents: from awareness to identify, transfer, and sustain
Type: Feature
Chemical Decommissioning: Safety Challenges
What are the most significant safety hurdles in chemical decommissioning?
Type: Feature
