Site Inductions: Giving Visitors What They Need
Fed up with being bombarded with irrelevant information, Harvey Dearden says site inductions shou...
Fed up with being bombarded with irrelevant information, Harvey Dearden says site inductions shou...
In the first of a two-parter on fired heaters, Myke King shows how to implement duty controls
We asked the TCE Reader Feedback Panel, what impacts, positive or negative, has your use of AI ha...
In the third in a series of articles aimed at giving new graduates a better understanding of the ...
Martin Pitt looks back on the history of drinking water and chemical engineers’ contribution to it
Adam Duckett reflects on TCE’s milestone issue
IChemE past-president Nigel Hirst asks whether you really know your suppliers and what their true...
Paul Okey visits the Flixborough 1974 Exhibition with his dad to discover the stories behind the ...
Steven Murphy and Graham Ackroyd look at how applying Trevor Kletz’s concept of inherent safety a...
In the engineering industry, it is often asked if major incidents could ever happen again. Early-...
Britest’s Rob Peeling argues that despite its reputation as a dowdy workhorse, Hazard Study One i...
Martin Pitt recalls his time spotting monsters, and warns that just because they are hard to spot...
Richard Mundy reflects on the Court of Inquiry’s findings relating to what we now call management...
A massive gap that wasn’t filled, key players in the wrong positions and no one taking overall re...
Trish Kerin speaks to safety consultant Andrew Hopkins to find out how the safety culture at Flix...
Robin Turney says the lessons learned from the disaster are still as relevant now as they were in...
ABB's David Bowers looks at how new technologies, including cloud computing, edge computing, and ...
In 1953, Dwight D Eisenhower (1890–1969) began his US presidential term with a widely applauded “...
Tea may be renowned for its soothing qualities, but tea leaves have the potential to cause catast...
The story of the Manhattan Project and the race to build nuclear weapons is usually told about ph...
With cybersecurity now a core subject for many higher education institutions, the National Univer...
Robin Smith; ISBN: 9781119689980; Wiley; 2023; US$72.00 (eBook); US$89.95 (print)
Aimee Russell highlights the issues you probably haven’t thought about when it comes to extreme w...
Trevor J Hughes on why reducing risk will only come from engineers challenging cringeworthy ‘ma...
The original HAZOP methodology developed by ICI has been expanded over time. Mike McKay and Georg...
For just over 100 years, radioactive elements have proved of industrial and commercial use. Marti...
Performed well, leadership visits play a vital role in supporting a positive safety culture at a ...
Henry Kister, senior Fellow and director of fractionation technology at Fluor USA, presents 13 ru...
Susan Ojo tells Adam Duckett about how her industrial placement is benefiting her studies
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Rocket science is a famously difficult area, but it’s more than the physics of force and trajecto...
Hazardous environment consultancy Armadex highlights the importance of safety data sheets (SDSs) ...
In the final part of our series on fusion energy, Mirjana Damjanovic and Lewis Simmons highlight ...
In the latest in her series highlighting the breadth of career opportunities in chemical engineer...
Tom Baxter’s TCE article “Home Hydrogen: Is it Safe?” generated a lot of interest from the chemen...
Myke King continues his detailed series on process control, seeking to inspire chemical engineers...
Roger Stokes and Michael Moosemiller outline the safety issues associated with conventional disti...
Martin Pitt considers the history of process control in a two-part series, concluding with electr...
Jin Xuan and Thorin Daniel imagine a future when HAZOP sessions take hours not months, P&IDs are ...
David Jamieson believes AI can revolutionise process safety, but says there is still some way to ...
Stuart Prescott addresses the strengths and weaknesses of generative AI in an education setting
Doug White reviews the control and optimisation issues affecting typical existing distillation ...
Martin Pitt considers the history of process control in a two-part series, kicking off with mecha...
John McDermid considers the ethical implications of using AI in a chemical engineering setting
Forty-one people died when a road tanker exploded in the Boksburg suburb of Johannesburg in 2022....
With decarbonisation on the agenda worldwide, engineers are looking for new ways to use hydrogen ...
Izak Nieuwoudt reviews the hybrid schemes that can help process engineers reduce the energy use o...
Alexandra Meldrum and Amit Verma share how IChemE members have been working to shape policy and p...
Ian Maloney; ISBN: 9781913836160; Tippermuir Books; £5.00; 2022
Tristan Hunter and Deaglan Gahan share some of the strategies to prevent and mitigate cybersecuri...
Seshu Dharmavaram discusses his research into anhydrous ammonia and how better management of it c...
Eamon Chandler, chair of the Hazards 33 conference technical committee, previews the key themes t...
With INWED focused on 'Make Safety Seen', Caroline Smither tells Yasmin Ali about her work helpin...
With INWED focused on 'Make Safety Seen', Marlene Kanga talks to Orla Douds about the satisfactio...
Dividing wall columns promise significant energy and cost savings compared to multiple binary dis...
Daniel Summers introduces a new series calling on chemical engineers to take advantage of opportu...
IChemE has launched fact files on the importance of cybersecurity in the process industries. Hele...
Adam Duckett on opportunities for communication and digitalisation
Robert Peeling, chair of IChemE’s Congress, recounts the ethical lessons he has learned throughou...
A Kayode Coker; ISBN: 9781119794868; Wiley-Scrivener; 2022; eBook US$236; Print $295
Human factors expert W Ian Hamilton reflects on the process of fixing trust in order to fix safet...
Thiago Ramos talks about his role at L’Oréal, coordinating and implementing the company’s health ...
Process safety engineer Martin Wardrope looks closely at how virtual reality is being used to dev...
In his ongoing series looking at the history of chemical engineering, Martin Pitt considers the h...
Robin Turney speaks to Sophie Horne about her role in the water industry
Mark Yates examines the engineering behind Apollo, and highlights the continuing importance of sc...
Robin Turney speaks to Mike Rantell about his role in safety at Novartis
Neil Hannay offers some practical advice
Tom Baxter looks at the evidence
Ivan Vince takes a look back at Buncefield, and the need for a new breed of ‘remembrancers’
Malcolm Staves explains the importance of applying the highest safety standards regardless of reg...
Efstratios Pistikopoulos and Yuhe Tian; ISBN: 9780323855877; Elsevier; 2022; US$190
IChemE Past President Ken Rivers on what to expect from the coming Hazards event
IN the sixth webinar of IChemE’s Centenary series, experts discuss how chemical engineering can ...
Joan Cordiner discusses the world of professional ethics
How to shift to hydrogen power – safely.
Paul Stevenson discusses options for remediation of PFAS contamination
Fiona Macleod illustrates Trevor Kletz’ thoughts on accident investigation
David Gemmell explains how the industry keeps viruses and bacteria at bay in manufacturing
Tom Baxter shares safety lessons learned from across his career
Adam Duckett speaks to Steven Fitzgibbon about natural hazard risk reduction
Adam Duckett on taking action to improve safety
The UK needs its own ‘Chemical Safety Board’, says Keith Plumb
Experts gathered to discuss new safety challenges for a sustainable era. Kerry Hebden reports
Helen Kilbride and Krisshala Sinanan discuss the benefits and challenges
Robin Turney speaks to Muhammad Naeem Ullah about his work as a process safety specialist at the ...
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Mariné Botha and Rachel Ramskill share their experiences of working in risk engineering in the Mi...
Robin Turney speaks to Paul Feltoe about his role in process safety consulting
Speaking the truth when others don’t want to hear has to be part of our DNA as engineers, says Da...
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Andrew Livingston, Shaista Bibi and Conor Crowley provide practical advice on this key risk manag...
Trish Kerin explains the power of using Delta HAZOP, a new method for revalidating previous HAZOPs
Robin Turney speaks to Fiona Barclay about her role in keeping people safe at Clair Ridge
David Edwards brings bite-sized process safety wisdom from Trevor Kletz to a new generation
Members of IChemE's Safety & Loss Prevention SIG introduce a series that showcases the roles in p...
Paul Orange explains why testing battery safety matters more than you’d imagine
Naomi Atkinson talks about her role in ensuring safe and compliant manufacture of therapeutics an...
Renato Benintendi; ISBN: 9780128235164; Elsevier; 2021; €190.75
How to avoid some common pitfalls in the production and use of a COMAH report; from Robert McGreg...
Ivan McCormack discusses his role in the recycling sector, developing a chemical process to clos...
Liz Hallifax talks about her role at Unilever as Global Process Risk Authority with a focus on di...
Ken Rivers, Chair of the COMAH Strategic Forum, shares his views on how IChemE can help improve s...
Low temperature embrittlement is a common, but poorly understood hazard. Paul Denham looks at pre...
In the sixth article in his series, David Jamieson looks at what we can learn from the movie Ju...
Jack Wishart discusses how benchmarking can be used to measure and drive improvements in process ...
CORROSION is an age-old problem that is now being effectively contained and prevented due to the ...
A culture of care is the foundation, says Mark Walker
In the fifth article in his series, David Jamieson looks at what we can learn from the movie Die ...
In International Week of Happiness at Work, we look at why asking ourselves (and others) how we'r...
Alfonso Rodriguez and Charlie Espinosa explain innovations to map and remove mercury contaminatio...
Alexandra Meldrum recalls our learned society’s achievements and previews what’s to come
In the fourth article in his series, David Jamieson looks at what we can learn from Indiana Jones
Tom Baxter argues against using blue hydrogen to produce electricity
Andrew Hopkins and Deanna Kemp; ISBN: 9781922509048; Wolters Kluwer; 2021; US$65
John Downer explains how teams can understand and provide value to projects for clients
IChemE groups will speak with one voice, says Margaret Donnan
In the third article in his series, David Jamieson looks at what we can learn from the movie Back...
Adam Duckett discusses the rising threat of cyber attacks
Joanne Tanner and Tristan Hunter introduce a new member-led series on digitalisation, and in this...
David Jamieson explains what Kevin McCallister and the Wet Bandits can teach us about inherent sa...
Andy Brazier and Nick Wise explain why it’s so important to consider real-world situations in ris...
Andy Brazier asks are you satisfied that everything ‘reasonably practicable’ has been done to red...
A bow-tie diagram could have saved the Death Star, says David Jamieson
Andy Brazier, David Edwards, Fiona Macleod, Craig Skinner, Ivan Vince; ISBN: 9780128194478; Elsev...
Adam Duckett on member feedback
Andy Brazier and Nick Wise introduce a series looking at ALARP
Joe Willmot shares the methodologies and data required to achieve a robust and safe scaleup from ...
Last year, IChemE’s President Stephen Richardson took the unusual step of writing to India’s Prim...
James Close, John Barker and Georges Melhem use a case study to explain the importance of underst...
Aidan Bushell explains changes for Dust Explosions (Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/878)
Geoff Gill reviews how the accident played out, and the huge engineering challenges involved in m...
The Fukushima disaster in numbers
Ali Mokhber, Christopher Ross, and Pablo Garcia-Trinanes describe how layers of protection analys...
Adam Duckett on Fukushima and the future of nuclear
Clive Lloyd; ISBN: 9780367509538; CRC Press; 2020; US$64.95 (Hardback), US$20.65 (ebook)
Zsuzsanna Gyenes makes the case for the much-maligned energy source
Key safety resource is now free for members, says Fiona Macleod
Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray explain how to identify and mitigate bulk solids flow risks
Ian Scott discusses the development of the waste-burning stable salt reactor (SSR)
How we can learn important safety lessons from success as well as failure
Tony Hasting looks at the options for quality assurance
How risk-based inspection and maintenance has kept workers safe during Covid-19
DEKRA announces the merger of its UK Process Safety and Organisational Reliability businesses
Adam Duckett on the opportunity to boost your skills
What can be learned from inspections of loss of containment audit and assurance systems in the UK...
Frank Crawley; ISBN: 9780128195437 (paperback); Elsevier; 2020; £117.30
A long-term moral perspective to process safety is needed, says Marc Reid
Tony Hasting discusses cleaning and disinfection of food process plant
What do you do when you unexpectedly lose a crucial piece of your refinery complex? Shahidan Lail...
Tony Hasting discusses process and equipment design for food safety
Conor Crowley looks at how his team has adapted to conduct good HAZOPs amidst pandemic and lockdown
Trevor Kletz & Paul Amyotte; ISBN: 9780128105399 (Hardcover) 9780128105405 (eBook); Butterworth-H...
Safety expert Wassim Naddi on Lebanon’s disregard for safety and the need for change.
A look at the security threats facing control and safety systems, and the layers of protection to...
Sam Wilkinson discusses IChemE’s ongoing Learned Society activity
A review of the safety implications of a wider use of hydrogen, and the efforts under way to addr...
Zeb Ahmed and Nick Geary talk to Adam Duckett about the projects they are facilitating to help fi...
What contribution do chemical engineers make in ensuring our food is safe?
Keith Plumb explains the importance of design of pressure relief systems for stirred tank vessels
Adam Duckett, Editor of The Chemical Engineer, introduces a series looking at Deepwater Horizon o...
A decade on from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, James Pettigrew discusses the efforts to bring t...
Scott Powell and Scott Vickers look at how industry's emergency response measures have evolved in...
Ten years after Deepwater Horizon, US offshore drilling safety improvements remain elusive
Geoff Maitland looks back on the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, ten years ago this month
Tim Harwood updates us on the collaborative gas industry programme to deliver the evidence on con...
How we choose to learn can determine whether we will repeat similar situations, says Gabor Posta
Chris Best addresses the role blowdown systems play in plant design and why they are essential in...
Rory Stanley explains developments in line blinding systems for total isolation
Process engineer Ramin Abhari's latest graphic novel aims to raise awareness about laboratory safety
Miguel Johansson Finguerut describes his work on community water projects in central Mexico
Claudia Flavell-While looks at learned society priorities
Four key ideas that help us understand the real world of work.
From working in water treatment to paving the way for film productions including Harry Potter
Hugh Thomas looks at the challenge of ensuring resilient and wholesome water supplies
Chemengers have a huge part to play in ensuring the safety of low-carbon technologies, says Julie...
Paul Kenny shares insights on a new HAZOP technique trialled at ExxonMobil’s Fawley site in the U...
IChemE President Stephen Richardson talks to Adam Duckett about his ambitions for IChemE
In the run up to IChemE Advances in Process Automation and Control (APAC) conference, Chris Hamli...
Andrew Hopkins AFIChemE; ISBN: 9781925894158; Wolters Kluwer; 2019; £57.22
On the 30th anniversary of the industrial disaster that killed his wife, Mike O’Connor looks at t...
Sean Loughney asks how safety in the offshore industry might be improved via automation
John Blackie; ISBN: 978-1-9993700-0-8; Dyes Publishing; 2019; £15
What are the most significant safety hurdles in chemical decommissioning?
Barry Perlmutter explains developments in containment for eliminating worker exposure during soli...
Nooryesha Choudhury explains how IChemE is supporting members to influence policy
On the anniversary of the Banqiao Dam disaster of 1975, Fiona Macleod reflects on a visit to the ...
Why the humble checklist was essential during the Apollo space programme.
Management of Change: Getting it Right (or at least not getting it badly wrong)
The challenge of learning from incidents: from awareness to identify, transfer, and sustain
IChemE’s annual Hazards conference was held from 22–24 May in Birmingham, UK. More than 350 peopl...
Glenn Pettitt and Martyn Ramsden explain how quantitative risk assessment can be used to determin...
Andy Brazier explains why process isolation is more complicated than you might think
A look at how the Loss Prevention Bulletin and its Editorial Panel operate
Fighting complacency and drift by using process safety performance indicators to establish and ma...
How proper design is key to avoiding process accidents
Don’t let your organisation drift into failure through normalisation of deviance
How story telling can help in preventing accidents.
Amanda Doyle meets Fiona Erskine to discuss her explosive thriller
Roderick Stanley explains industry efforts towards leak-free valves
Allyson Woodford shares her personal journey with process safety
Teaching artisanal gold miners to go mercury-free using a century-old technique.
Examining the concept of operational discipline as the means by which we can maintain the basis o...
Why your plant is safe, and how to maintain it
Limitations and misuse of layers of protection analysis
Harvey Dearden offers an alternative to the 'Swiss cheese' model for representing process safety....
A look at the hazard and operability study (HAZOP).
How to identify threats and achieve ALARP on a big scale
Believe it or not, the role of HAZOP scribe has much to offer up-and-coming chemical engineers
Process safety and personal safety need to be managed in very different ways
Bias can have a significant safety effect, both in the causes of accidents and in the way we inve...
The importance of regular testing of portable gas detectors
Highlights from the Loss Prevention Bulletin's special issue on fireworks and explosives.
Back to basics on theory and equipment
One radar level gauge can provide two separate and independent layers of protection
A analysis of a fire caused by spontaneous combustion of food waste at a factory in Texas.
Bryden Wood is a technology and design company that designs residential, commercial, and process ...
Preventing asset failure in the refining industry using machine learning
20 years on from Australia’s infamous gas explosion, what have we learned, and what should we do ...
Cyber threats to process safety: industry must share lessons
Mag Sim of Pure Earth takes us inside the collaborative effort that cleaned up a polluted industr...
As lessons emerge following the Grenfell Tower review, chemical engineers have a duty to share th...
Chemical engineers are well suited to assessing fire safety by applying systems thinking and a ri...
Not all parts of a process safety management system are of equal importance
Erin Johnson, Ashok Kumar Fellow, talks to IChemE’s Rachael Fraser
Adam Duckett says we must do all we can to share the lessons of Piper Alpha
Adam Duckett, editor of The Chemical Engineer introduces the Piper Alpha Perspectives series laun...
Fiona Macleod, chair of the Loss Prevention Bulletin Editorial Panel, and Stephen Richardson, an ...
Robots, big data, wearables, and rig-floor automation are being developed for a transformative bo...
Personal perspective from Sam Ash, a young technician working offshore
Insight from a young geophysicist joining the sector, working for BP's offshore operations.
HSE director Chris Flint discusses the need for all of us to seek to improve the approach to regu...
Shahana Buchanan, chair of IChemE's Safety & Loss Prevention Special Interest Group discusses how...
An offshore safety engineer describes how, as he approaches the ten-year mark of his career, Pipe...
Phil Eames recounts ICI’s response to the Piper Alpha tragedy and offers up a video that all youn...
ON 6 July 1988, 167 men died in the Piper Alpha disaster. This series revisits the accident and ...
Terry Cooper is a chemical engineer by training. This article is an adapted version of a speech h...
Disastercast host Drew Rae offers up a challenging view on the danger of convincing ourselves tha...
A personal perspective from IChemE Safety Centre's Director
Dame Judith Hackitt remembers Piper Alpha and in light of the Grenfell Tower fire reminds us ther...
A personal perspective from Steve Rae, a survivor of Piper Alpha who has made it his duty to ensu...
Deirdre Michie reflects on the success of Oil & Gas UK's Safety 30 conference.
Lord Cullen of Whitekirk gave this speech at the opening of Oil & Gas UK’s Safety 30 Conference i...
People often say they remember where they were when they heard President Kennedy was shot, when P...
Adam Duckett, on life-changing moments, regrets, and the red thread of safety
Adam Duckett reports from the launch of the University of Sheffield’s new continuous powder proce...
Innovation is needed to develop systems to identify problems before they occur
Effective communication a key theme as experts gather to discuss safety
How turning a blind eye can have serious cumulative effects on process safety
Cyber attacks on industrial control systems are increasing. What can you do?
Building the UK’s first captured-carbon polymerisation plant
The Loss Prevention Bulletin's special issue on food processing uncovers hazards you might find s...
H21: why we need bold thinking for a greener, cleaner, low-cost future
An overview of the scientific and technical challenges that have surfaced because of shale gas
How advanced level measurement technology increases plant efficiency and safety
Why considered, informed, respectful dialogue is needed
How an award-winning ensilication technology could remove the need to refrigerate life-saving vac...
Expert observations of demolition dangers and how to avoid them
Unwrapping the explosion pentagon to reduce risk
How augmented reality is ticking all the boxes for the process sector. Simon Clarke, Director at ...
What’s coming, and why the process industries will have to be more nimble. Simon Coombs, Managing...
Trevor Kletz, the father of inherent safety, explains his remarkable career
An argument for using insulation rather than fixed firewater deluge to protect bulk LPG storage t...
Introducing the ‘watermelon’ effect, where process safety performance metrics appear ‘green’ sugg...
Employers should know that robust D&I initiatives will lead to better H&S
A practical guide to taking a representative sample, and doing so safely.
Adam Duckett on Trump’s move to eliminate the Chemical Safety Board
The final day of Hazards34 is now closed. You can read our full coverage below including our audi...
GOVERNANCE of AI is lagging dangerously behind the technology’s spread though society, scientists...
THE US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has launched an investigation into a ...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has fined solvents manufacturer Rathburn Chemicals £40,000 ...
AN AUTONOMOUS robot has carried out maintenance works at the Joint European Torus (JET), marking ...
SMALL-SCALE removal of radioactive debris has restarted at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site, ac...
Mark Apsey and Duncan Lugton talk policy and what to expect from Hazards 34
CHINESE engineers have made a nuclear safety breakthrough by shutting off power to the cooling sy...
ANOCHROME LTD, a company that provides electroplating and coatings, has said it is the source of ...
Thames Water, Yorkshire Water, and Northumbrian Water face hefty fines after a “catalogue of fail...
US CHEMICAL facilities are putting lives at risk by failing to heed lessons learned from loss of ...
OFWAT is now investigating all 11 water and wastewater companies in England and Wales for wastewa...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has issued its final report identifying the “critical” safety ...
DAME JUDITH HACKITT, safety expert and a former president of IChemE, is the 2024 recipient of the...
ENGINEERING consultancy Ricardo has joined a partnership investigating what would happen if a lar...
THE US government and freight operator Norfolk Southern (NS) have reached an agreement to resolve...
THE Texas Petrochemical Company (TPC) Group has been ordered to pay US$30m in criminal and civil ...
PFAS polluters have been targeted by new legislation introduced by the US labelling two widely us...
FREIGHT train operator Norfolk Southern (NS) has agreed to pay a settlement of US$600m to residen...
THE LONG-AWAITED US standard for PFAS in drinking water has been met with a lukewarm response fro...
Nigel Hirst talks about celebrating excellence, Jonathan Seville calls to members to sign up for ...
POOR materials selection and staff training failures contributed to an explosion and fire at a KM...
AT LEAST 18 people are dead and 178 have been injured following a huge explosion, and subsequent ...
SAFETY concerns surrounding lithium-ion batteries dominated a recent IChemE-hosted roundtable dis...
THE UK government will not be proceeding with a controversial hydrogen trial in Redcar. Northern ...
Nigel Hirst, Trish Kerin and Alexandra Meldrum have their say on the issues affecting IChemE members
Safety professionals urged to consider transition, natech, and non-technical skills
Obituary of Jennifer Aitken, process safety advocate and popular member of IChemE's Pharma Specia...
AN EXPLOSION that killed a worker at a pharmaceutical plant in Newburyport, Massachusetts, US, co...
THE University of Oxford has been given IChemE’s outstanding achievement in chemical and process ...
UK INDUSTRIAL researchers have been promised a boon on the fringes of the Bletchley AI Summit tha...
A METHANE explosion at a mine in Kazakhstan run by ArcelorMittal Temirtau has killed 46 workers. ...
TWO contractors are under observation in hospital after they were exposed to contaminated liquid ...
A MAN has died in an explosion at a chemical plant in Melbourne, Australia.
ANHYDROUS ammonia released from a tanker during a traffic incident in Teutopolis, US, is believed...
“STANDARDS need to be followed for this very well-known risk,” stressed IChemE Safety Centre dire...
THE IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) has welcomed its 100th member to the consortium – the engineering ...
AUTHORITIES in the Dominican Republic are pursuing a criminal case against a plastics company fol...
NAURA OCEAN RESOURCES (NORI), the company which sparked debate into deep sea mining in 2021, has ...
THE IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) celebrated a key milestone this month as it welcomed fire engineer...
THE US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has released its final report on the ...
WHITBY in Cheshire will no longer be considered as the location for the UK's first hydrogen villa...
A WORKER has been killed after a powerful explosion ripped through a pharmaceutical plant in Newb...
FIVE people have been killed, one is missing, and another is being treated for injuries in hospit...
THE US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has accused a mill owner of wilful vi...
ICHEME has launched a series of fact files to raise awareness of the importance of cybersecurity ...
THE death toll following an explosion at a US chocolate factory on 24 March has risen to seven. T...
AT least six people have been killed and “several” injured in an oxygen plant explosion in south-...
THE US’s Freeport LNG has received regulatory approval to partially restart commercial operations...
A LARGE-scale rescue effort is ongoing after reports of an open-pit coal mine collapse in China, ...
ONE person has died and at least a dozen others were injured in an explosion at a metals plant in...
FAILURE to learn from a similar incident investigation released less than a year prior is among s...
A FIRE which broke out yesterday at a goods factory in China has killed 38 people and injured two...
LOCAL news reports that one person is dead, and as many as three are injured, following an explos...
A FIRE which resulted in the shutdown of major US LNG export facilities in June has been found to...
CRACKS of a few centimetres have been identified in all four of the feedwater pumps of the Olkilu...
TRISH Kerin, Director of the IChemE Safety Centre (ISC), has won the Women In Safety Leader of th...
TWO workers have died after sustaining injuries in a fire at a BP-operated refinery in Toledo, Oh...
FIREFIGHTERS have responded to a large fire at a chemical storage unit in Staffordshire, UK after...
CHARTERED chemical engineer Marlene Kanga, who successfully campaigned for World Engineering Day,...
A TEAM of multinational researchers has developed a novel method for breaking down environmentall...
THOMAS Michael O’Connor, who dedicated his life to educating chemical engineers about the importa...
FOUR former bosses of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been ordered by a Tokyo court to p...
CARLSBERG has been fined £3m (US$3.6m) after one contractor died and another was seriously injure...
A LEAK of toxic chlorine gas at Aqaba’s Red Sea port has killed 13 people and injured more than 3...
Former IChemE President Dame Judith Hackitt will reflect on the importance of cross-sector hazard...
ONE person was killed by a fire which broke out at an ethylene glycol facility belonging to the s...
Freeport LNG, which shut down after a fire earlier this month, has announced that its Texas, US p...
At least eight people are injured, and six others are missing after an explosion at a chemical fa...
ONE of the US’s largest LNG export facilities has shutdown after a fire, raising supply concerns ...
A CHEMICAL blaze and explosions at a container depot in Bangladesh have killed at least 41 people...
NEWS sites have reported fatal chemical incidents in India’s Hapur district, in the state of Utta...
€100m (US$107m) is needed for repairs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant following the Russian ...
SCIENTISTS at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have successfully shown that X-ray scanning ...
SIX people are dead following an explosion and fire yesterday at the Melamin chemical plant in Ko...
A NOVEL reactor that neutralises methane emissions produced in coal mines will be trialled by Sou...
NUCLEAR experts have arrived at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant to help make it safe afte...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety video about the 2020 fatal incident ...
AN oil storage depot has been set on fire in a Russian city north of the Ukrainian border. The lo...
RUSSIAN shelling in northern Ukraine has led to an ammonia leak at a chemical facility, with near...
THE IPCC has said that human-caused climate change is already resulting in detrimental effects on...
RUSSIAN forces have shelled the site of Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant. A fire broke out a...
AN explosion occurred at a facility that manufactures building materials on 21 January, killing o...
SIX chemical engineers have featured as experts in the second series of Disasters Engineered.
WHETHER it’s serious engineering lessons and insights on career opportunities, or irreverent quer...
A PLASTICS factory near Hull in the UK has been destroyed by a fire.
HAZARDS 31 will feature a talk by cybersecurity expert Sarabjit Purewal – from the UK’s Health an...
RESEARCHERS have developed a method to thoroughly assess the risks associated with fuel supply ch...
BRIAR Chemicals has been fined £1m (US$1.4m) following the death of a contractor at its site in N...
OFFICIALS from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have visited Japan to review the pla...
A FIRE and subsequent explosions occurred at a plastics facility in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire,...
A FIRE at a Pemex offshore oil platform has resulted in the deaths of five workers, with two stil...
AN explosion at a power station in South Africa has caused extensive damage to the facility’s gen...
THE Court of Appeals, the most senior court in England and Wales, has ruled to allow proceedings ...
TWO workers have been killed by an acetic acid leak at a LyondellBasell plant in Texas, US.
ENVIRONMENTAL and scientific advisory groups have called on the US Environmental Protection Agenc...
AN EXPLOSION at a hazardous chemical disposal site in Germany has killed at least two people, wit...
THE Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), along with partners including IChemE, have released a r...
AN EXPLOSION and fire at a chemicals facility in Bangkok has killed one person and injured more t...
“PROCESS safety is more than just life preservation, it’s about making sure that we look after th...
AN explosion occurred at a facility in Rockton, Illinois, US, on 14 June. The subsequent fire has...
EXPERTS have begun modelling how oil might spill from a cargo ship that caught fire off the coast...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released its final report on the 2019 hydrogen sulfide rel...
RESEARCHERS at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea have develo...
A FIRE at the Callide coal-fired power plant in Queensland, Australia has caused blackouts across...
CHEVRON and Honeywell have started commercial operation of a new alkylation process using an ioni...
ONE firefighter was injured while responding to a large fire at a chemical plant in Affton, St Lo...
TEPCO has been prevented from restarting units at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata...
ENVIRONMENTALISTS are concerned about the impacts on marine life after days of leakage of contami...
A FIRE broke out at the Lazaro Cardenas oil refinery in Minatitlan, Mexico, resulting in seven pe...
AN EXPLOSION, which occurred at 00:45 local time on 29 March at an Indonesian refinery, has serio...
ICHEME has announced that process safety experts from the energy and medical research sectors wil...
ICHEME President Stephen Richardson has recommended to a House of Lords select committee that sys...
CONCERNS have been raised over a stockpile of hazardous waste at Rio Tinto’s Tiwai Point aluminiu...
THE IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) held a webinar on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Safety to m...
ICHEME has released a special edition of Loss Prevention Bulletin (LPB) to mark the tenth anniver...
ICHEME has published a new book showcasing the works of process safety pioneer Trevor Kletz.
TWO years after the fatal collapse of a Vale dam, victims have brought landmark action against TÜ...
AN investigating prosecutor has charged Lebanon’s acting Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three for...
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...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released its factual update on the explosion that took pla...
A project to look at hydrogen and carbon monoxide combustion risk management in the case of sever...
SHELL has said its huge floating LNG production plant – the Prelude FLNG facility – is not expect...
A US court has dismissed charges against Arkema relating to the peroxide fire and harmful emissio...
INDUSTRY has to do more to ensure that it is learning lessons to help prevent it from repeating t...
AN explosion occurred at a chemical facility in Florida, US, on 8 September in a storage area for...
EDF has brought back online reactor 3 of its nuclear power station Hunterston B after receiving a...
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 7 August, Chevron was ordered to inspect critical equipment at its Gorgon LNG project in Austr...
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 ...
REPAIRS are underway to resolve welding issues at Chevron’s Gorgon liquid natural gas (LNG) proje...
THE Pistoia Alliance and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical So...
AN international group of 142 scientists, community groups and NGOs from 24 countries has publish...
ATKINS has been awarded a contract for front end engineering design (FEED) of coolant loops for t...
NORILSK Nickel has been fined US$2.1bn by Russian environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor for the ...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cincinnati (UC), US, have been awarded about US$200,000 in fundi...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which aims to protect human health and the environm...
A FIRE at Milnerton Refinery in South Africa has killed two employees and injured seven.
BAYER has announced a US$10bn settlement for thousands of lawsuits claiming that that its Roundup...
AN explosion at an oilseed processing plant in the UK has injured three people.
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...
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK, have sourced and developed personal respirator equipm...
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....
US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency over threats to the country’s power s...
AT around noon local time, on 15 April, an explosion occurred at a paper mill in Jay, Maine, US. ...
THE UK Government and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have relaxed rules over the manufactu...
FATALITIES and accidents at work are likely to increase, and a better understanding of engineerin...
AN explosion at a small chemicals plant in Barcelona, Spain has killed one and injured 13 others,...
DEREK LISTER has been appointed a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to nuclear ...
A FIRE has occurred at Lotte Chemical’s naphtha cracker in Seosan, South Korea, injuring at least...
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 ...
PIPER Alpha survivor Steve Rae will share the story of how his survival has led to a lifelong dri...
REUTERS reports that a Brazilian state judge has accepted homicide and environmental crime charge...
BASF and German startup JenaBatteries are cooperating to produce battery technology suitable for ...
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...
ATKINS has been awarded a five-year contract to provide technical safety and human factors servic...
AN oil well blowout in Texas, US, has killed three people.
NOURYON has signed a framework agreement with Semiotic Labs to implement technology that will pre...
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...
THREE IChemE Fellows will feature as experts in a new ten-part television documentary series abou...
A FIRE occurred at Rathburn Chemicals in the Scottish Borders, UK, on 10 January.
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has found that a lack of hazard identification processes contr...
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...
STEWART Behie has been appointed as the Interim Director at the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety ...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rescinded most of the Chemical Disaster Rule – w...
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 its factual update on the refinery fire that occu...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a factual update on the explosion and fire which ...
NRG, a nuclear research and consultation organisation, has reached a historic milestone in the de...
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...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety digest about the importance of worke...
THE Australian minerals industry has released a communiqué, which reinforces its position as a gl...
TWO contract workers have been killed after an explosion at a former SSI UK steelworks site in So...
A BLOWOUT at a fracked natural gas well in Louisiana, US, has been burning for two weeks and is e...
THE IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) has produced a new free interactive case study to help chemical en...
A REACTOR exploded at a pharmaceutical plant in India injuring 16 workers, according to reports.
WORK has begun on removing 30,000 bbl of modified hydrofluoric acid at the damaged Philadelphia E...
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...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has urged regulators to develop safety standards for onshore o...
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...
ICHEME has launched two interactive safety case studies – Chemical Plant and Underground Pipeline...
THE 2019 Process Intensification Award for Industrial Innovation has been awarded by the European...
AN explosion and fire at a US silicones manufacturing plant has killed three people with one othe...
THE US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), has released a letter calling on the...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it has ceased unplanned flaring at its Fife Ethylene Plant (FEP) at...
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...
A NEW method for dying threads could be used to create smart clothing that changes colour in the ...
TEPCO has begun work to remove 566 highly-radioactive fuel rod assemblies from reactor building n...
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...
ON 22 March Vale raised the alert level of its Sul Superior Dam of the Gongo Soco mine located in...
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...
AFTER three days fighting a fire that was spreading through a chemicals storage depot in Texas, U...
EIGHT chemicals storage tanks are ablaze at a major petrochemicals depot on the US Gulf Coast.
KEVIN Dixon-Jackson, a longstanding member of IChemE’s Hazards conference organising committee, p...
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published a comprehensive inventory of all of the high-v...
CHEMICAL engineering postgraduate Jeni Spragg has produced a report to help UK parliamentarians m...
FOLLOWING the fatal collapse of a Vale mine tailings dam the company has decided to remove severa...
DOWDUPONT is spinning off its safety and sustainability consultancy DuPont Sustainable Solutions ...
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...
The fatal Brazil dam collapse highlights failings in the mining industry. Amanda Jasi speaks to e...
THREE plenary speakers have been announced for IChemE’s Hazards Australasia 2019 process safety c...
BRAZIL has decided to ban tailings dams built by the upstream method. The decision follows the fa...
EIGHT Vale employees have been arrested as part of a criminal investigation into the collapse of ...
ICHEME has launched a new prize – called the SIESO Medal – to recognise student presentations abo...
SAM Mannan, a safety expert who died last year, will have a prize named in his honour at IChemE’s...
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...
Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Britain’s national workplace health and safety regulator, has ...
MIKE Bell, worldwide safety and health manager at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, will deliver the...
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.
ICHEME has supported the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) in publishing research identifying h...
TRISH Kerin, director of the IChemE Safety Centre, has been awarded the Trevor Kletz Merit Award ...
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering and Lloyd’s Register Foundation have announced a £15m (US$1...
FORMER IChemE Council members Dame Judith Hackitt and Ed Daniels have been awarded honorary degre...
A COALTION of European chemicals NGOs has called on politicians negotiating the terms of Brexit t...
ONE worker has been killed and another seriously injured after a pipe supplying pressurised steam...
ELEVEN people have been killed in a fire at a steel plant in Bhilai, India.
AN explosion has shut down Canada’s largest refinery, operated by Irving Oil in Saint Paul, New B...
NUSCALE Power has selected BWX Technologies (BWXT) to manufacture NuScale’s small modular reactor...
AN EXPLOSION has occurred at the Umicore Speciality Chemicals plant in Arab, Alabama, killing one...
M SAM MANNAN, a chemical engineer and pioneer of process safety, passed away on 11 September 2018.
THE explosion of a methane tank at the Mohit petrochemical factory in Bijnor, India, earlier toda...
THE Cullen Report into the Piper Alpha disaster is now available to download for free from the He...
THE US’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not have to comply with the Chemical Disaster ...
PISTOIA ALLIANCE, a global-not-for-profit life sciences organisation, is seeking a strategic part...
A FEDERAL appeals court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop delaying an...
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...
A JURY has ruled in favour of a terminally ill cancer patient who claimed that Monsanto’s glyphos...
ONE man has been killed and another seriously injured in an explosion at a military hardware plan...
ARKEMA, its CEO and the manager of the plant in Texas that caught fire after Hurricane Harvey bat...
ICHEME has successfully lobbied the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) to waive the £70 (US$91) cost...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has said that a deteriorated valve may have caused the explosi...
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...
TWELVE people have been injured in an explosion at a chemicals storage site in Egypt.
AN explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant has killed 19 people and injured 12 others.
WASTEWATER from oil and gas facilities can be spread on roads for dust suppression or de-icing, b...
A FIRE at the Kemaman Bitumen Company (KBC) refinery in Malaysia has destroyed two crude oil tank...
AN EXPLOSION at a chemicals plant in Japan on 2 July has killed one worker and injured at least a...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revised how it determines risks associated with ...
FIRE safety is important to all of us, both in residential buildings and on industrial sites, and...
HSE has teamed up with the Lloyd’s Register Foundation to develop new techniques aimed at sifting...
AN ARMED assault has caused catastrophic damage to two oil storage tanks at the Ras Lanuf termina...
THE University of Chester is facing the possibility of relocating its science and engineering fac...
THE University of Chester is facing the possibility of relocating its £120m (US$160m) science and...
PHIL KIRK, CEO of Chrysaor, has issued challenges to the oil industry community at a UK conferenc...
THE oil and gas community has been urged to “maintain a chronic sense of unease” at a conference ...
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 ...
SEVEN chemical engineers have been awarded medals for their outstanding contributions to process ...
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...
THE release of an edition of Monopoly that marks the anniversary of the tragic Piper Alpha oil pl...
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.
TWO workers have been injured and one remains missing following an explosion at a chemicals plant...
A PROCESS for the chemical decontamination of nuclear reactor cooling systems has been developed ...
AT least three people are dead after an explosion in a chemical factory in the Maharashtra Indust...
FIRE safety will be a key topic at IChemE’s process safety conference Hazards Australasia 2018, w...
AN ENERGY trial at Keele University, UK, will assess the feasibility of adding hydrogen to the ga...
MICROBES that use oil as a food source offer the only way to degrade oil after a spill, however a...
AN explosion at an oil refinery in Taiwan set off a fire yesterday that took hours to extinguish.
FIVE people are missing after an oil and gas drilling rig near Quinton in Oklahoma, US, exploded ...
A NEW method has been developed to help drug developers weed out compounds that could potentially...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety video about a 2016 incident in Kansa...
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 person has been killed and 21 are injured after a huge explosion and fire at the Baumgarten N...
INEOS has closed its Forties oil pipeline, which transports 40% of the UK’s oil production, aroun...
A MAERSK Drilling employee has died after falling into the sea during maintenance work on the Mae...
VANESSA SUTHERLAND, chair and CEO of the US Chemical Safety and Hazards Investigation Board (CSB)...
MASS relocation of residents following a major nuclear accident is largely unnecessary, according...
ONE man has been killed and another 11 injured in an explosion and subsequent fire at the Arakawa...
MAJOR issues that could face industry, society and the environment as a result of the growing bio...
ROSATOM, the Russian state nuclear company, has denied that a radioactive cloud of ruthenium-106 ...
RESEARCHERS in Sweden have published new analysis of the Chernobyl disaster which suggests that t...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a detailed animation of the events leading to the...
THE half-life of nuclear fission products could be reduced from hundreds of thousands of years to...
A SMART paper laced with conductive nanomaterials could be used to easily locate water leaks in a...
AN explosion at the Unchahar power station in Utter Pradesh, India has killed 26 people and injur...
A WORKER is missing and five have been taken to hospital in Louisiana, US, after an oil platform ...
AN ENGINEER-focussed guide to help better understand the threats presented by UK natural hazards ...
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...
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...
PETROFAC is conducting a safety study that could recommend that the upstream oil and gas industry...
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.
BASF has described how digitalisation is affecting all areas of its business, from product develo...
PROCESS SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (PSEP) now has the highest impact factor ever held by...
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