Safety Moment #54: The Process Safety Professional
The contents of this Safety Moment have moved to The Process Safety Professional.
Safety Moment #79: The Process Safety Consultant
This Safety Moment is one in a series to do with the process safety profession.
The New PSM Normal (4) — Automation
If you fly over the offshore platform of the future in a helicopter and look down you will see just two living beings: an operator and a dog. The operator’s job is to feed the dog; the dog’s job is to make sure that the operator doesn’t touch anything.
The New PSM Normal (7) — Things Feel Different
2020-06-03
In the post SEMS and Risk in 2020 (SEMS if the offshore equivalent of process safety management as applied to U.S. deepwater operations — mostly the Gulf of Mexico), Mick Will, says,
The New PSM Normal (6) — Alternative Energy Reality Check
2020-05-27
I would like to take a break from talking about this virus this week. (Wouldn’t we all?) Instead, let’s take another long-range look as to where the process industries may be going, and how safety management programs may have to adapt.
The New PSM Normal (5) — Standards
2020-05-20
In this post I would like to consider how those of us who work in industrial and process safety can help the community at large? The subject came to mind when I was discussing the eventual return of people to church services with a colleague. Our Episcopal diocese has organized a four-phase program for the re-opening of the churches (we are currently in Phase One).
Safety Moment #64: Equipment Spacing (Hydrocarbon Storage Tanks)
Safety Moment #57: Equipment Spacing (Pumps/Fireproofed Pipe Racks) described the layout of pumps in a process or energy facility. Continuing the discussion, this Safety Moment describes some of the issues to be considered with regard to the layout of storage tanks, sometimes referred to as “API Tanks”.
Safety Moment #62: From Complicated to Complex
In any performance-based program such as process safety, the work is never finished — there is always room for improvement.
In practice, most of the developments in techniques for improving safety analysis are improvements of existing programs or techniques. For example, the hazards analysis technique LOPA (Layers of Protection Analysis) has seen widespread application in recent years. Yet it is basically a development of the well-established Fault Tree and Event Tree techniques.
Safety Moment #59: In-Kind / Not In-Kind Change
The topic of Management of Change (MOC) is discussed in the following publications:
- Safety Moment #5: Management of Change — Defining Change and
- Safety Moment #67: The Most Important PSM Elements - Management of Change
In this Safety Moment we look more deeply into the distinction between “In-Kind” and “Not In-Kind” changes.
Safety Moment #60: Risk Perception
The material in this article to do with risk perception is taken from the book Process Risk and Reliability Management.
Risk perception is fundamentally a subjective matter; no matter how hard analysts strive to make the topic objective the fact remains that, as Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) once said, A truth ceases to be a truth as soon as two people perceive it.