
How Strong are your Barriers?
What can be learned from inspections of loss of containment audit and assurance systems in the UK...
What can be learned from inspections of loss of containment audit and assurance systems in the UK...
Safety expert Wassim Naddi on Lebanon’s disregard for safety and the need for change.
Geoff Maitland looks back on the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, ten years ago this month
How we choose to learn can determine whether we will repeat similar situations, says Gabor Posta
A analysis of a fire caused by spontaneous combustion of food waste at a factory in Texas.
Cyber attacks on industrial control systems are increasing. What can you do?
Introducing the ‘watermelon’ effect, where process safety performance metrics appear ‘green’ sugg...
MINING giant Vale and Brazilian authorities have agreed on a global settlement of about R$37.69bn...
TWO years after the fatal collapse of a Vale dam, victims have brought landmark action against TÜ...
REFINERY owner Essar Oil UK and Progressive Energy, a project development and implementation comp...
AN explosion at a chemical facility in Belle, West Virginia, US has killed one worker and injured...
SEVEN contractors were injured after a fire and explosion occurred at a crude oil storage tank in...
FOUR people have died and another has been injured in an explosion at a UK water treatment works.
A FIRE which broke out at a gas well in India, in June, has now been “doused completely”, accord...
ON 5 November, in the early hours of the morning, two people were killed as a result of a reactor...
ICHEME has awarded a team of engineering students at the University of Bradford, UK, with the 202...
AN explosion occurred at a chemical facility in Florida, US, on 8 September in a storage area for...
A FIRE has broken out at a warehouse in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, just over a month after an a...
A CHEMICAL plant in Louisiana, US, caught fire after damage from Hurricane Laura caused a chlorin...
ON 5 August, the Global Tailings Review (GTR) initiative established the first global standard fo...
AN explosion at a warehouse storing ammonium nitrate in Beirut, Lebanon, has killed at least 135 ...
A FIRE at Milnerton Refinery in South Africa has killed two employees and injured seven.
A FIRE has broken out at an Indian gas well which has been leaking for weeks.
10 workers have now died following an explosion on 3 June, at a chemicals factory in India, repor...
AROUND 21,000 t of diesel has leaked into a Russian river near Norilsk, which is inside the Arcti...
BRAZILIAN mining company Vale has been ordered by a judge to put aside around R$7.93bn (US$1.47bn...
ON 15 May, an explosion at a chemicals plant in an industrial zone in Venice, Italy seriously bur...
A GAS leak at an Indian chemical factory has killed at least 11 people and hospitalised hundreds....
AT around noon local time, on 15 April, an explosion occurred at a paper mill in Jay, Maine, US. ...
TEPCO, Japan’s largest power company group, has released a report which outlines two potential me...
AN explosion at a small chemicals plant in Barcelona, Spain has killed one and injured 13 others,...
A FIRE has occurred at Lotte Chemical’s naphtha cracker in Seosan, South Korea, injuring at least...
MINING giant Vale is to begin disposing of the mine tailings from the fatal collapse of one of it...
A LARGE fire has been reported at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Carson, California, followin...
ACCORDING to the summary of a report by an independent consulting committee created by Vale, the ...
REUTERS reports that a Brazilian state judge has accepted homicide and environmental crime charge...
BRAZILIAN mining giant Vale is to invest in technology to reduce tailings dam use and increase op...
AN expert report says that 12 deaths are likely to occur over any five-year period within the Que...
AN oil well blowout in Texas, US, has killed three people.
BRAZILIAN prosecutors have charged 16 people – including former Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman – with...
BRAZILIAN mining giant Vale has launched a pilot project for the environmental recovery of the ar...
AN explosion at an ethylene oxide facility in Tarragona, Spain, has killed three people and injur...
A FIRE occurred at Rathburn Chemicals in the Scottish Borders, UK, on 10 January.
AN expert panel commissioned by Brazilian mining giant Vale has concluded that a number of factor...
A WEEK after the explosion at the Texas Petroleum Chemical (TPC) facility in Port Neches, Texas, ...
A SECOND major explosion at a chemicals facility in Port Neches, Texas, has resulted in the evacu...
THREE people have been injured in an explosion at the Texas Petroleum Chemical (TPC) Group facili...
BRAZIL’s National Mining Agency (ANM) has released a technical report on the history of the taili...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a factual update on the explosion and fire which ...
HUSKY Energy has received the required permit approvals to move forward with its more than US$400...
A FIRE broke out at a Lubrizol chemicals factory in Rouen, France, in the early hours of 26 Septe...
ICHEME has awarded the new SIESO Medal, a student process safety award, to four chemical engineer...
TWO contract workers have been killed after an explosion at a former SSI UK steelworks site in So...
DRONES have targeted the world’s biggest oil exporter, Saudi Aramco, reducing the state-owned Sau...
A BLOWOUT at a fracked natural gas well in Louisiana, US, has been burning for two weeks and is e...
A REACTOR exploded at a pharmaceutical plant in India injuring 16 workers, according to reports.
ON 31 July an explosion and subsequent fire broke out at an ExxonMobil plant in Baytown, Harris C...
A GASIFICATION plant in China’s central Henan province has exploded, killing 15 people and seriou...
PETRONAS Gas (PGB), a subsidiary of Petronas, has confirmed that a fire which broke out at one of...
AN explosion and fire at Punjab Chemicals and Crop Protection in Dera Bassi, India, has killed tw...
REFINERY owner Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) has announced that it is to permanently close ...
A LANDSLIDE at Glencore’s largest copper and cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC...
VALERO Energy has been fined £5m (US$6.4m) following an explosion at its Pembroke refinery in Wal...
ON 6 May the final system-wide trials of a new dry storage facility at Chernobyl began. ISF2, loc...
AN explosion and fire at a US silicones manufacturing plant has killed three people with one othe...
IN the early hours of today, two people were injured at an explosion at the Tata steelworks plant...
LOCAL authorities in China have taken “criminal coercive measures” against 26 people following a ...
THREE people have been killed and five injured at a privately-owned chemical plant in China’s Inn...
AN explosion and fire occurred at the Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Johor, Malaysia, a re...
THREE employees of Jiangsu Tianjiayi Chemical Company are said to have “significant responsibilit...
ONE worker has been killed and two seriously injured in a chemicals plant fire in Texas, US.
VALE has put three more of its Brazilian mine tailings dams on the highest level of alert – level...
A court decision has ordered Vale to stop activities at 13 of its mine tailings containment struc...
ON 25 March the death toll following an explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant rose to 78, report...
THE death toll following an explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant has now reached 47, reports st...
FOLLOWING an explosion at a Tianjiayi chemicals plant in Yancheng, eastern China, six people are ...
ACCORDING to Reuters, last week a Brazilian court ordered the arrest of 11 Vale employees and two...
THE lead prosecutor investigating the cause of the fatal dam collapse at a mine in Brazil has all...
THE Brazilian Senate has passed a bill to tighten dam safety, reports Reuters. This follows the c...
EIGHT Vale employees have been arrested as part of a criminal investigation into the collapse of ...
REUTERS says it has seen an internal document that shows that Vale knew last year that its dam in...
165 people have now been confirmed dead following the collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam in Bra...
TWO weeks after the collapse of a Vale tailings dam 157 people have been confirmed dead, 134 of w...
FOLLOWING the collapse of a Vale dam in Brazil, 134 people have now been confirmed dead, with 120...
AFTER the fatal collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam in Brazil, 99 people have been reported dead...
A TAILINGS dam in Brazil has collapsed, leaving a reported 16 people dead and 297 missing. Other ...
A FIRE that broke out on an oil tanker off the coast of Hong Kong has killed one, injured seven, ...
AN explosion at a chemicals facility in the Xinjiang region in China has killed three people and ...
AN explosion at MarkWest natural gas processing facility in Pennsylvania, US, has injured four pe...
CHEMCHINA has released a statement stating that a blast which killed 23 and injured 22 was caused...
Husky Energy has spilled an estimated 1572 barrels of oil off Canada’s Atlantic coast. CBC News r...
AN explosion at a US Ecology facility in Idaho, US, has killed one worker and injured three.
FLOODING due to heavy rainfall has caused damage to the US$10bn Dangote refinery site in Nigeria.
AN EXPLOSION has occurred at the Umicore Speciality Chemicals plant in Arab, Alabama, killing one...
THE explosion of a methane tank at the Mohit petrochemical factory in Bijnor, India, earlier toda...
PISTOIA ALLIANCE, a global-not-for-profit life sciences organisation, is seeking a strategic part...
A fire broke out yesterday at a chemical plant on the same site as the Stanlow oil refinery in Ch...
Two workers have died at an industrial furnace fire at an Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) smelter...
EMERGENCY services were called to reports of an explosion at 15:10 local time on 27 July at Briar...
AN explosion and fire occurred at the Emerald Performance Materials chemical plant in Akron, Ohio...
A FIRE at the Kemaman Bitumen Company (KBC) refinery in Malaysia has destroyed two crude oil tank...
A blast at a state-owned explosives factory in Ankara, Turkey, on 24 May has killed one and injur...
A fire at the Kuraray America chemical facility in Pasadena, Texas, US, on 19 May has injured 21 ...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released its final report and an updated animation on the ...
A CHEMICAL plant in Louisiana, US, has caught fire, with no injuries reported.
HSE has warned the UK’s offshore oil and gas operators that they must do more to tackle hydrocarb...
AN explosion at a Husky Energy-owned oil refinery in the US has reportedly injured at least 15 pe...
AN explosion and fire has hit Valero Energy’s 225,000 bbl/d Texas City refinery, with no injuries...
AN INDUSTRY forum held in Texas has discussed the response of chemical companies to Hurricane Har...
AN EXPLOSION at a Unipetrol refinery is reported to have killed six people and injured others.
INEOS has restarted the UK’s Forties Pipeline after the closure of a valve forced a shutdown of t...
AN explosion at an oil refinery in Taiwan set off a fire yesterday that took hours to extinguish.
AN oil tanker is on fire and at risk of exploding after colliding with a freight ship off the eas...
CANADA’s Alberta province has brought eight charges against Nexen Energy after an on-site explosi...
ONE man has been killed and another 11 injured in an explosion and subsequent fire at the Arakawa...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a detailed animation of the events leading to the...
AN explosion at the Unchahar power station in Utter Pradesh, India has killed 26 people and injur...
A VAPOUR cloud formed over the Port of Hull, UK, after a leak of hydrochloric acid from a tank, a...
TWO men have been seriously injured in a gas explosion at the Colwick Industrial Estate in Nottin...
A PROVIDER of environment, health, safety (EHS) and sustainability software has offered free acce...
All nine chemical containers have ignited at the flooded Arkema plant in Crosby, outside Houston,...
ARKEMA’S organic peroxide plant in Crosby, which has already suffered reported explosions and a s...
ARKEMA has reported a chemical fire at its organic peroxide (OP) plant in Crosby, Texas, amid flo...
A CHEMICAL fire or explosion is expected within days at Arkema’s organic peroxide plant in Crosby...
A SAFETY alert has been issued by the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), ur...
SHELL says that its Pernis refinery in Rotterdam in the Netherlands is not expected to restart op...
FORMER IChemE president Dame Judith Hackitt is to lead a major independent inquiry into fire safe...
AN explosion at Norilsk Nickel’s Zapolyarny mine in the far north of Russia has killed four people.
PROCESS SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (PSEP) now has the highest impact factor ever held by...
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