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Study, prevention, and management of major hazardous material accidents in process plants
Process safety is an interdisciplinary engineering domain focusing on the study, prevention, and management of large-scale fires, explosions and chemical accidents in process plants or other facilities dealing with hazardous materials, such as refineries and oil and gas production installations. Thus, process safety is generally concerned with the prevention of, control of, mitigation of and recovery from unintentional hazardous materials releases that can have a serious effect to people, plant and/or the environment. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Process safetyA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Process safety 4.0: Artificial intelligence or intelligence augmentation for safer process operation?Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Chemical Process SafetyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Relationship of safety culture and process safetyCited 63 times
- Go sideways: Process Safety Management (OSHA regulation)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Domino effect accidentA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Relationship of safety culture and process safety
Process safety culture in the CCPS risk based process safety model
Managing process safety information based on process safety management requirements
Measuring process safety management
Process safety: Is safety “common sense”?
Process safety: More to process safety than regulations
Process safety update
Process safety culture
🆕 Influential since 2022
Process safety 4.0: Artificial intelligence or intelligence augmentation for safer process operation?
Process Safety in the Pharmaceutical Industry─Part II: Process Safety Labs and Instruments Used in Process Safety Labs for Thermal Hazards
Information needs and challenges in future process safety
Process safety evaluation of the nitration synthesis process of Pendimethalin
Enhancing process safety management through evidence-based process safety management (EBPSM): A theoretical framework and case analysis
📚 Books worth reading
Chemical Process SafetyDaniel A. Crowl, Joseph F. Louvar · 1989- 📕Patient FactorRupa S. Valdez, Richard J. Holden · 2021
Hazard Analysis Techniques for System SafetyClifton A., II Ericson · 2005
Thermal Safety of Chemical ProcessesFrancis Stoessel · 2008
Click Here to Kill EverybodyBruce Schneier · 2018
Safety and security review for the process industriesDennis P. Nolan · 2008- 📕Hazards and Safety in Process IndustriesMihir Kumar Purkait, Piyal Mondal · 2021
Developing Safety-Critical SoftwareLeanna Rierson · 2013
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🔗 Related topics
- Process Safety Management (OSHA regulation) Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals is a regulation promulgated by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). It…
- Domino effect accident A domino effect accident is an accident in which a primary undesired event sequentially or simultaneously triggers one or more secondary undesired events…
- Chemical accident A chemical accident, also commonly known as a chemical leak is the unintentional release of one or more hazardous chemicals, which could harm human health…
- 1998 Esso Longford fire On 25 September 1998, a catastrophic fire occurred at the Esso natural gas plant in Longford, Victoria, Australia. A pressure vessel ruptured resulting…
- Process safety management Process safety management (PSM) is a practice to manage business operations critical to process safety. It can be implemented using the established OSHA…
- Inherent safety In the chemical and process industries, a process has inherent safety if it has a low level of danger even if things go wrong. Inherent safety contrasts…
- Texas City refinery explosion On March 23, 2005, a hydrocarbon vapor cloud ignited and violently exploded at the isomerization process unit of the BP-owned oil refinery in Texas City…
- Hazard analysis A hazard analysis is one of many methods that may be used to assess risk. At its core, the method entails describing a system object (such as a person…