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    Chemical Safety Board Tailisman
    Agency completes record number of investigations while tracking hundreds of serious chemical accidents across the nation.
    Deadly Lessons from BP Disasters
    Remembering the human toll of Texas City and Deepwater Horizon and applying those lessons learned can prevent similar tragedies.
    The Four Cs of Effective Process Safety Storytelling
    Embrace new ways of safety communication because if we keep doing the same thing, we will keep getting the same results.
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    QRA involves assessment tools, modeling software and harm criteria. Key resources can guide your risk evaluation process effectively.

    News

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    April 8, 2025
    BioLab faces citations and penalties from the U.S. Department of Labor after a hazardous chemical fire at its Conyers, Georgia facility Sept. 29, 2024. The incident led to hospitalizati...
    Process Safety with Trish & Traci Neal Finalist
    Jonathan Katz
    March 26, 2025
    Process Safety with Trish & Traci explores critical industrial safety through expert insights and lessons learned.
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    Amanda Joshi
    March 24, 2025
    CSB issues a new report highlighting lessons learned from the explosions that killed 15 people and injured 180 others at BP’s Texas City refinery.
    What’s Going On? Water Scarcity, Tariff Hopes and Controversial Cleanup at Bhopal
    Traci Purdum
    March 21, 2025
    Fellow Endeavor Business Media editors cover topics germane to Chemical Processing, and a CP source sounds off on incinerating Bhopal’s toxic waste.

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    6 Process Safety Pearls of Wisdom
    Traci Purdum
    Jan. 7, 2025
    We’ve extracted a few gems from the 2024 season of Process Safety with Trish & Traci. Listen in as we discuss recurring accidents, emergency systems and organizational learning...
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    Risk Mitigation
    Dave Russell
    Jan. 6, 2025
    Quantitative risk analysis transforms industrial safety by measuring hazard potential systematically.
    Butterflies of Bhopal podcast -- lessons written in blood
    Traci Purdum
    Dec. 10, 2024
    Chemical engineer Ramin Abhari’s graphic novels communicate the lessons learned from major process safety incidents.
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    Bhopal 40 Years Later
    Bhopal's tragedy reveals critical flaws in inherently unsafe industrial design. What can we learn from this?