Process safety is about understanding hazards and risk, managing risk by providing the appropriate layers of protection to reduce the frequency and severity of incidents, and learning from incidents ...

Good process safety in any organization requires specific knowledge, experience and skills. These building blocks of process safety lie, of course, mainly with your organization’s staff. So, how do ...

The Center for Risk Management will host three no-cost classes at the Gulf Coast Safety Institute in September: Introduction to Environmental Regulations on Sept. 11, Confined Spaces in Construction ...

Process safety can be approached in many different ways. This article provides an unconventional way of looking at process safety that ties together wide-ranging ideas from seemingly disparate fields.

Review of process safety risk assessments detects a common culprit. Downstream oil and gas firms devote considerable resources to ensure that workers at their industrial facilities apply Process ...

Is it safer to work at or live near a chemical plant today than it was 20 years ago, before Bhopal? Maybe. "I can't say such an accident won't happen in the U.S., but it would be hard to occur," says ...

While intention is admirable, it’s actions that count. And when it comes to process safety, 66% of companies cited disparities between process safety goals and reality, according to a report from ...

The 2024 Safety+ Symposium—hosted by the Voluntary Protection Programs Participants’ Association, Inc. (VPPPA)—features a wide variety of networking, workshops and other activities. However, the deep ...