Industrial Control System Risk Assessment Standards and Best Practices in the Chemical Industry by John Cusimano There is no simple recipe for how to secure an industrial automation and control system (IACS) and there is good reason ...
Applying PHA Methodologies such as HAZOP and Bowtie to Assessing Industrial Cybersecurity Risk by John Cusimano & Tim Gale Process hazard assessments (PHA) are a well-established practice in process safety management. These assessme...
How to Effectively Place Gas Detectors The analysis of existing gas detection systems has shown that the primary limiting factor in the effectiveness of a system is incorrect d...
Addressing Common PCN Misconfigurations Will Increase Availability, Security and Safety The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness around common OSI Layer 2 networking misconfigurations found in Industrial Process Contro...
How Can I Effectively Place My Gas Detectors Instrumentation, Reduction of Risk, Risk Assessment, Protection, Detection System, Alarms and Operator Interventions, Detector, Gas Detecti
Does your facility have the flu? Use Bayes rule to treat the problem instead of the symptom Is our industry addressing the problems facing it today? We idealize infinitesimally small event rates for highly catastrophic hazards, y...
Designing Operator Tasks to Minimize the Impact of Heuristics and Biases Often times when a person is blamed for “not thinking,” the reality is they were thinking, but were not aware of it. This is the theory o...
Improving Barrier Effectiveness using Human Factors Methods The Process Industry has an established practice of identifying barriers to credit as IPLs (Independent protection layers) through the us...
Improving Human Factors Review in PHA and LOPA by Dave Grattan, P.E., CFSE Human Reliability practitioners utilize a variety of tools in their work that could improve the facilitation ...
Improving the Safety Instrumented System (SIS) Design Process with Graphic Diagrams by Keith A. Brumbaugh, PE During a Safety Instrumented System (SIS) implementation project at a plant site new to the ANSI/ ISA 84 proc...
