Archive for the ‘Risk Analysis’ Category
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
A friend of mine, Dr. Ben Thomas, recently forwarded me a video showing a man escaping incident in matter of seconds.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rapvHU3aoCw
Note: The video is probably not real as indicated by comments below it but if it is the person in the video is indeed very very lucky.
Posted in Chemical Accidents, Human Factors, Risk Analysis | No Comments »
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Surprisingly, many organization and professionals believe that safety can be achieved by common sense. Here is an excellent article from Kevin Jones' Safety at Work blog about common sense and safety:
Safety is More Than Common Sense
Posted in Process Safety, Risk Analysis | 2 Comments »
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
I would like to wish readers and the growing list of subscribers of risk and safety blog a prosperous 2010.
It has been a year since I started writing the blog. Here are top five blog posts for 2009:
1. Biofuel Safety: Is it time for Bio-PSM?
2. Lithium Battery Fires: Why Your ...
Posted in Battery Fires, Biofuels, Fires and explosions, Process Safety, Risk Analysis | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
A few weeks ago, I had written about a recent fire at the alkylation unit in Citgo’s Corpus refinery, and raised the question about HF usage. Today, I would like to further delve into the alternate technologies for alklyation and also take this opportunity to summarize feedback I have received ...
Posted in Inherent Safety, Process Safety, Risk Analysis | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
How would you answer the following question:
Is refinery A safer than refinery B?
I know a few of you would recommend quantifying risks in each refinery. This will enable us to estimate how many fatalities (on-site and off-site) can occur in the two refineries. We can thus use the predicted ...
Posted in Consequence Modeling, Failure Data, Risk Analysis | 5 Comments »
