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Don’t Dismiss Stage 4 of an SIS Functional Safety Assessment!

The 2nd edition of IEC 61511 now requires – by use of the word “shall” – that a Stage 4 Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) be conducted...

aeSolutions Announces Appointment of Ken Whittle as Senior Director for Process Safety

Industry Veteran to Lead Division Dedicated to Providing Top Tier Process Safety and Risk Management Solutions Greenville, SC –January...

Dust Hazards Pt. 2 – Dust Properties and Dust Hazard Signs

How do you know if you have combustible dust hazards present? Screening and testing of a representative sample of the dust for the paramete

Protecting Personnel and Plant with Facility Siting

Process industry history is sprinkled with catastrophic incidents that acted as drivers of regulatory change, such as the 1974...

Is That Really Why Control Systems Go Wrong? - Video Presentation

Presented by Greg Hardin - Senior Principal Specialist, aeSolutions The British HSE publication “Out of control - Why control systems go...

aeSolutions Introduces aeAlarm™ to Drive Efficient Client Alarm System Performance

Greenville, SC – October 28, 2021 – aeSolutions, a consulting, engineering, and systems integration company, is excited to announce the...

Adapting to the Unexpected: Process Safety Management from Afar

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, many plant sites minimized on-site staff to essential personnel, and restrictions prevented in-person...

Does Your Facility Have the Flu? Use Bayes Rule to Treat the Problem Instead of the Symptom

The process industry uses Layer Of Protection Analysis (LOPA) to document extremely small probabilities for catastrophic events....

How to Design for Effective Situation Awareness and Operator Response to Abnormal Situations

Kahneman has written about fast and unconscious thinking (a.k.a. system 1), versus conscious and slow thinking (a.k.a. system 2). We use...