STAMP (Systems Theoretic Accident Model and Processes) is a relatively new accident causality model based on systems theory. It draws its...

Instrumentation, Reduction of Risk, Risk Assessment, Protection, Detection System, Alarms and Operator Interventions, Detector, Gas Detecti

Is our industry addressing the problems facing it today? We idealize infinitesimally small event rates for highly catastrophic hazards,...

by Dave Grattan Often times when a person is blamed for “not thinking,” the reality is they were thinking, but were not aware of it. This...

by Dave Grattan The Process Industry has an established practice of identifying barriers to credit as IPLs (Independent protection...

by Dave Grattan, P.E., CFSE Human Reliability practitioners utilize a variety of tools in their work that could improve the facilitation...

by Dave Grattan PE, CFSE & Keith Brumbaugh PE, CFSE ​ The Process Industry has an established practice of crediting IPLs (Independent...

Functional safety engineers follow the ISA/IEC 61511 standard and perform calculations based on random hardware failures. These result in...

by Laura Ankrom, P.E. & Kathy Shell, P.E. ​ In Failure to Learn: the BP Texas City Refinery Disaster, the author, Andrew Hopkins,...

by Michael D. Scott, P.E., aeSolutions founder & Ken O’Malley, P.E., aeSolutions founder This paper will discuss the issues, decisions,...