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 ...

A report by an independent expert panel largely blames BP executive management for process safety failures that led to a fatal accident at its largest U.S. refinery two years ago. The report was ...

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 ...

Doha: Qatargas Operating Company Limited (Qatargas), Texas A&M University at Qatar (Texas A&M at Qatar, a Qatar Foundation partner university), and ConocoPhillips Qatar Ltd (ConocoPhillips) recently ...

Doha: The 14th edition of the Qatar Process Safety Symposium (QPSS), co-sponsored by QatarEnergy LNG and ConocoPhillips Qatar in collaboration with University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST) ...

This chapter describes recent efforts by the chemical and petroleum industries to define process safety metrics suited to the needs of their enterprises. It then discusses how such concepts can be ...

Safety management can be a touchy topic. Disagreements abound: Should companies go the route of behavior-based safety, or follow a systems approach? Should safety be management-driven or ...

Though the presumption is that physical separation is needed between control and safety systems to avoid common cause failures, “effective” separation may be enough with proper analysis and the right ...