PROCESS SAFETYLOPA Independent Protection Layers- Common Pitfalls in IPL SelectionThose who work in high hazard industries are familiar with the OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements for routine Process...
PROCESS SAFETYDoes Your Facility Have the Flu? Use Bayes Rule to Treat the Problem Instead of the SymptomThe process industry uses Layer Of Protection Analysis (LOPA) to document extremely small probabilities for catastrophic events....
WHITEPAPERSDoes Your Facility Have the Flu? Use Bayes Rule to Treat the Problem Instead of the SymptomIs our industry addressing the problems facing it today? We idealize infinitesimally small event rates for highly catastrophic hazards,...
PROCESS SAFETYImproving Barrier Effectiveness using Human Factors Methodsby Dave Grattan The Process Industry has an established practice of identifying barriers to credit as IPLs (Independent protection...
WHITEPAPERSMethodologies in Reducing Systematic Failures of Wired IPLsby Richard E. Hanner & Tab Vestal The history of high consequence incidents in industry reveals that most accidents were the result of...
WHITEPAPERSConducting a Human Reliability Assessment to support PHA and LOPAThis paper will present an overview of the HRA methodology, worksheets used to develop and document the HRA, examples of HR Event Trees, a m
WHITEPAPERSCan we achieve Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3) without analyzing Human Factors?Incorporate quantitative Human Factors into a SIL analysis. Representative operating units at various stages of maturity in human factors an
PROCESS SAFETYReducing Systematic Failures - Process Safety Management PSMThe benefit of such studies is that it’s easier and less expensive to make necessary changes to systems while the design is still on paper.
PROCESS SAFETYIndependent Protection Layers…Will they work when needed?Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) has become an important tool used in industry, often in conjunction with a Process Hazard Analysis...