Alarm management and process safety are closely intertwined. Your alarm management system and associated operator intervention are often the last line of defense before a safety system trip. However, ...

The video outlines the events that triggered a fatal January 2021 liquid nitrogen release at the Foundation Food Group Inc. poultry processing plant in Gainesville, GA.

This chapter describes recent efforts by the chemical and petroleum industries to define process safety metrics suited to the needs of their enterprises. It then discusses how such concepts can be ...

Refinery workers in California will remain covered by the state's existing process safety management requirements after the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board rejected proposed ...

Is it safer to work at or live near a chemical plant today than it was 20 years ago, before Bhopal? Maybe. "I can't say such an accident won't happen in the U.S., but it would be hard to occur," says ...

We have entered a period of intense innovation in industrial automation especially in Process Automation and Safety technolgoies. In the areas of high value-added manufacturing there is growing global ...

Breakdowns in PSM often stem from treating safety programs as compliance exercises rather than operational systems, leading to gaps in procedures, training, and controls. Incident investigations that ...