How to Prevent the Five Most Common Industrial Alarm Management Issues
Industry expert Burt Ward discusses how to prevent the five most common industrial alarm management issues.
Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) is a semi quantitative method of risk assessment analyzing the frequency of occurrence of events that can produce a hazard associated with handling of hazardous chemicals. To ensure safety, a LOPA considers the applicability of safeguards, the potential for individual layers of protection to fail, and the potential consequences that are consistent with the organization's risk tolerance