Archive for the ‘Risk Analysis’ Category
Monday, December 27th, 2010
Below is a list of top five blog posts for this year.
1. SO2 vs. H2S: Which is more toxic?
2. Physical Explosions: LNG Rapid Phase Transitions (RPT)
3. Nitrogen Asphyxiation Hazards
4. Natural Gas Pipelines: Is there a Safer Alternative?
5. 174 Times and then KaBoom
Happy holidays. See you next year.
Posted in Business Risks, Chemical Accidents, Process Safety, Risk Analysis | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Chemical processes and designs are increasingly being evaluated for inherent safety - i.e. reduce the hazard rather than the risk. The philosophy behind inherent safety is 'What You Don't Have, Can't Leak' and so you take necessary steps to reduce the hazard.
Issues where inherently safer approaches can be successfully applied are fairly ...
Posted in Inherent Safety, Process Safety, Risk Analysis | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are a part of today’s corporate growth strategy. As a part of M&A due diligence various critical business issues are evaluated. But what about safety performance of the company you are looking to acquire or merge with?
You will say that most M&A in oil and gas/chemical ...
Posted in Business Risks, Process Safety, Risk Analysis, Safety Culture | 4 Comments »
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Generally speaking, 5-6 things have to go wrong for an incident to occur. Furthermore, these events or failures have to occur in a certain sequence.
The characteristics of mega disasters is that 5-6 events with fairly low probabilities of occurrence line up.
Such rare incidents are referred to by many names within the risk management community - ...
Posted in Incident Investigation, Insurance, Process Safety, Risk Analysis | 5 Comments »
Friday, June 4th, 2010
As safety professionals, we are often required to consider value of life in decision making.
So, what is the economic value of a life? According to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), it is $5.8 million. Click on the link below to read more...
http://ostpxweb.dot.gov/policy/reports/080205.htm
Posted in Chemical Accidents, Process Safety, Risk Analysis | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
I had been away from writing blog posts for last 3 months or so...mainly because of my travel to S. Korea. I have also been kept busy working on adding advanced features to Risk and Safety site. I will unveil them in the coming few months.
I hope to get back ...
Posted in Chemical Accidents, Process Safety, Risk Analysis | No Comments »
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 | 5 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 »
