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Rethink Mass Notification
Properly dealing with emergencies demands integration of plant systems.

Leadership Focus Podcast: CFATS
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) are now in the process of implementation. Traci Purdum, Chemical Processing's senior digital editor, talks to David Moore, president and CEO of AcuTech Consulting Group, about the challenges of becoming compliant, lessons learned, and how to address underappreciated issues.

Leadership Focus Podcast: Cyber Security
ChemicalProcessing.com
Each year the damage to critical infrastructure from network incidents and cyber attacks is measured in the billions of dollars.

Traci Purdum, senior digital editor, talks to Eric Byres, chief technology officer of Byres Security Inc., to understand the risks and learn how to mitigate them.

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Defuse CFATS Challenges
ChemicalProcessing.com
Proper preparation can go a long way toward easing compliance challenges.

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White Papers: In Depth Research

White Paper: Ten Tips for Completing a Site Security Plan
Author: ADT Security Service
Posted: 03/10/2010
Working on your Site Security Plan (SSP)? The next stage in the Chemical Facility Ant-Terrorism Standard (CFATS) compliance process requires covered facilities to submit a SSP. Given the importance of the SSP, covered facilities should address a number of factors while they complete this step in the CFATS regulation. Download this complimentary whitepaper now: Ten Tips for Completing your SSP.

Understanding CFATS: What It Means to Your Business
Author: ADT Security Services, Inc.
Posted: 01/18/2010
The Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard (CFATS) is intended to establish a baseline level of security for facilities considered to pose high risk to the general population in the event of a terrorist attack. Download this whitepaper now to learn how you can be CFATS compliant.

Process Safety Symposium – Making Safety Second Nature
Posted: 01/11/2010
This 10-page document discusses how the reference from the Center for Chemical Process Safety -- "Inherently Safer Chemical Processes, A Life Cycle Approach," 1st Edition, 1996 -- was updated in 2007. Inherent Safety has been well received by industry, but there has been significant advancement in the concept of inherently safer design over the last 10 years. This overview highlights lessons learned and best practices in inherent safety.

Testimony: Inherently Safer Technology in the Context of Chemical Site Security
Author: AcuTech Consulting Group
Posted: 01/11/2010
David A. Moore, PE, CSP, president and CEO of AcuTech Consulting Group, testified at a June 2006 hearing on Inherently Safer Technology in the Context of Chemical Site Security at The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

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Timeless Resources

Background paper on science and security in an age of terrorism
This National Academies background paper discusses general security issues and the role of the federal government. Learn about how the federal government and the science, engineering and health research community can work together to make everyone safer.

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