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Those who work in high hazard industries are familiar with the OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements for routine Process...

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

by Ron Nichols & Dave Grattan P.E., CFSE Introduction to Using RAGAGEP for Overpressure Risk Mitigation : Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)...

by Rick Hanner Some companies implement tasks during the analysis and design stages with names such as “IPL Select” or “LOPA...

by Dave Grattan The concept of barriers as discrete layers consisting of administrative controls, alarms, instruments, mechanical...

by Dave Grattan Is it better to be lucky or good? In Process Safety we need both. Lucky in this context does not mean haphazard. It means...

Everyone wants to provide a safe atmosphere for workers, facilities and the surrounding environment. The greatest risk in many process...

by Kathy Shell, Laura Ankrom A hazard scenario-based, drill-down audit can uncover systematic issues brewing beneath the surface not...

Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) has become an important tool used in industry, often in conjunction with a Process Hazard Analysis...