Two workers for BP Products North America Inc. died after being burned at a refinery in Oregon, Ohio, in September 2022. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspectors investigated ...

The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released its final report into the June 13, 2013, explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins Plant in Geismar, La., which killed two employees. The report concludes ...

The regulatory landscape for process industries in the United States became a little more onerous earlier this year. On February 21, 2020, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) ...

This course introduces the concepts of process safety management in the oil and gas industry, the elements and benefits of process safety management systems, and tools for implementing and managing a ...

Managing chemical reactivity hazards is more complex than other major hazards. Learn how to use process hazard analysis (PHA) to identify such hazard scenarios and determine whether additional ...

Integrating the JHA and Work Planning processes reinforced the new philosophical approach for shifting responsibility for working safely to those responsible for planning and actually performing the ...

I don't know how many audits I have conducted over the last 20 years, but I know it is in the hundreds. One of the areas that I have found hardest to assess as an auditor is the hazard assessment ...

Candlelit romance could end in disaster if fire safety is overlooked. A process safety consultant has warned of the dangers ...

The introduction of process safety system–specific malware into the manufacturing world in 2017 intensified the discussion around the convergence of safety and cybersecurity. If a cyberattack could ...

Within pharmaceutical process development, chemicals previously synthesised at the milligram level require scaling up to gram levels and above. These are often novel chemicals or utilise large numbers ...

The concept of hybrid AI in PM, highlighting the connections between the various components of hybrid AI tools for PSE (left), the four selected PM topics (middle), and examples of problems (right) ...