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    The chemical industry long has been concerned about the safety of its operations and the risks both within the plant gate and beyond. Dealing with safety issues can involve sophisticated techniques for hazard analysis and prescriptive measures for plant design and operation. It also can involve rethinking a process to make it inherently safer. It demands an understanding of tradeoffs and nuances.

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    Podcast: Mastering Risk Management in High-Hazard Industries

    Traci Purdum
    There is no such thing as zero risk, but we can take more effective approaches to minimize the potential for those risks to be realized.
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    Process Safety: Avoid Big Trouble from Little Changes, Part 2

    Jody E. Olsen
    Selecting the process hazard review method, explaining the rationale, and resetting past thinking and presumptions
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    Management Of Change

    Process Safety: Avoid Big Trouble from Little Changes, Part 1

    Jody E. Olsen
    Applying sound process-safety review screening to every change is the first step
    Fall Is For Process Safety

    Fall Is For Process Safety

    Traci Purdum
    Our ongoing coverage peaks to coincide with major events

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    EFCE Presents Process Safety Awards

    June 1, 2022
    Group honors author of thesis and lifetime contribution
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    Invensys Offers Cyber Security Assessment Service

    July 23, 2013
    Control system assessment provides a baseline of the user’s current security position.
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    Podcast: Deadly Lessons Learned From A Permit-To-Work Failure

    Feb. 28, 2022
    What went wrong at the Piper Alpha oil rig has taught us a lot about permit-to-work systems.

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    COVID-19 Coverage

    Jan. 3, 2022
    This page is designed to highlight activities underway by the chemical industry and to help provide resources to address and fight the impacts of COVID-19.
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    Podcast: Preventable Patterns Revealed In 2021 Process Safety Incidents

    Dec. 20, 2021
    What are you doing at your facilities to understand these hazards?