Archive for the ‘Risk Management’ Category
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reported the following offshore safety statistics on for 2009-10 period.
Zero fatalities
50 major injuries
85 major and significant hydrocarbon releases (HCRs)
Here a link to the UK HSE bulletin:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/statistics/stat0910.htm
Posted in Incidents, Offshore, Regulations, Risk Management | No Comments »
Friday, January 14th, 2011
NTSB has issued seven safety recommendations following the September, 2010 San Bruno incident in California.
#1. To PHMSA: Inform pipeline operators about circumstances leading up-to and consequences of pipeline rupture at San Bruno and NTSB's recommendations.
#2. To PG&E: Search records to identify all the gas transmission lines (in class 3 & 4 locations, ...
Posted in Fires and explosions, Incident Investigation, Incidents, Natural Gas Pipelines, Pipelines, Process Safety, Risk Management | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
I came across this interesting post about the Empire's EHS system.
The Blog Strikes Back: How Star Wars could have used an EH&S System
Posted in HSE, Human Factors, Process Safety, Risk Management | No Comments »
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
In 1992, OSHA promulgated the final rule for Process Safety Management (PSM) of Highly Hazardous Chemicals. PSM standard has 14 elements intended to eliminate or mitigate the consequences of releases of highly hazardous chemicals which may be toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive. The presentation below briefly describes the 14 elements ...
Posted in OSHA PSM, Process Safety, Regulations, Risk Management | 2 Comments »
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Chemical industry has evolved dramatically since the first sulfuric acid manufacturing plant was established in the 18th century. Modern day chemical plant is an engineering marvel producing valuable chemicals necessary for the societal progress. Although safe for the most part, chemical industries have witnessed a few significant accidents in the ...
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