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Chemical Processings Process Safety eHandbook: Tips for Safer Processing
2013-09-19 18:15:00| Chemical Processing
Major accidents with multiple fatalities continue to occur worldwide in theprocess industries, causing distress to those involved and massive costs to companies. Almost daily, facilities in the process industries face a number of specific major accident hazard scenarios depending upon the nature of the substances they handle and their processing activities. These are caused by known initiating events such as failure of hardware or control systems, or errors by operating or maintenance staff. In this Chemical Processing Process Safety eHandbook, we provide tips for safer processing including: >> The role of senior management including six important steps senior management should take to insure safer processing >> Process safety documentation strategies for ensuring that your documentation is up-to-date and readily accessible
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Process Automation System improves safety system integration.
2013-09-13 14:30:32| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Foxboro Evo delivers tools and applications across high-speed, fault-tolerant, and cyber-secure hardware platform, including integration of Triconex safety system. Applications enable plant personnel to make appropriate business decisions at appropriate time by streamlining and contextualizing information needed. System includes high-speed controller, field device management tools, maintenance response center, enterprise historian, 1-n redundancy, and cyber security hardening. This story is related to the following:Process Control Systems
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Pipeline Safety Chief Says His Regulatory Process Is 'Kind of Dying'
2013-09-11 13:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Jeffrey Wiese, the nation's top oil and gas pipeline safety official, recently strode to a dais beneath crystal chandeliers at a New Orleans hotel to let his audience in on an open secret: the regulatory process he oversees is "kind of dying." Wiese told several hundred oil and gas pipeline compliance officers that his agency, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration [2] (PHMSA), has "very few tools to work with" in enforcing safety rules even after Congress in 2011 allowed it to impose...
Malaysia Announces First Certified Professional Process Safety Engineer
2013-08-09 16:50:00| Chemical Processing
Sivabhalini Thevendiraraj, a chemical engineer based in Malaysia, is the countrys first person to be registered as a Professional Process Safety Engineer (PPSE).
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APPEA and IChemE Safety Center Partner to Address Process Safety Requirements
2013-07-25 06:00:00| Chemical Processing
The IChemE Safety Center (ISC) is a subscription-based industry-led consortium focused on recognizing and tackling process safety requirements in the chemical and process industries.
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