Taming the wild river rapids: How process safety can apply outside the process industries

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trish Kerin
Keyword(s):  
Process Safety ◽  
Process Industries ◽  
River Rapids

Effects of Human Factors in Process Safety

2022 ◽  
pp. 1477-1507
Author(s):  
Gargi Bhattacharjee ◽  
Sudip Kumar Das
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Near Miss ◽  
Accident Analysis ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Process Industries ◽  
Human And Organizational Factors

Accidents and near-miss accidents in chemical industries are widespread. Most of the incidents occurred due to combinations of organizational and human factors. To identify the causes for an incident of an accident analysis is needed, because it reveals the possible causes behind the accidents. Accident analysis shows the human and organizational factors that support learning from the events. Literature review shows that human error plays an important role of accidents in process industries. The chapter discusses some case studies which are received very little media publicity and also no proper assessment. At first reports on the incidents were collected from newspapers and then the place was visited to conduct an interview with local people and present and past workers with the help of the PESO (M/S Petroleum and Explosive Safety Organization, Eastern Region, Govt. of India).

Development of Process Safety Management System (PSMS): Mechanical Integrity (MI)

2014 ◽  
Vol 625 ◽  
pp. 486-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanida Abdul Aziz ◽  
Azmi Mohd Shariff ◽  
Mazlinda Muhamad
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Process Industries ◽  
Safety Management System ◽  
Mechanical Integrity ◽  
Prototype Tool ◽  
Study Implementation ◽  
Concept Validation

Accident is one of the big issues that occur repeatedly in the process industries today though there is numerous application of the variety safeguarding measures that have been introduced. Equipment failure is identified as one of the root causes of these major accidents. One of the established standards that addressed the above issue is a Mechanical Integrity (MI) element of Process safety Management System (PSM) 29 CFR 1910.119(j). The main objective of this study is to introduce a systematic technique to implement PSM MI in process industries. This study covered analysis of requirements of the standard, development of framework and prototype tool as well as concept validation through a case study. Implementation of this technique will help employers to prevent major accidents and compliance to the PSM standard simultaneously.

scholarly journals Risk-Based InspectionTechnique and Critical Success Factors in its Implementation to Improve Risk and Process Safety-Based Management Systems: A review study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behnam MORADI ◽  
Samira BARAKAT ◽  
Peyman KHALAGHI DEHABADI ◽  
Yazdan MAHMOUDIAN
Keyword(s):  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Process Industries ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Integrity Management ◽  
Review Study

Introduction: Risk-based inspection is a powerful tool provided by the American Petroleum Institute in order to respond to the needs of the process industries. The main focus of this method is on inspection, integrity management, maintenance, as well as reduction of the probability of failure. The purpose of this study was to conduct the risk-based inspection technique and critical success factors in its implementation to improve risk and process safety based management systems. Methods: In this review study, we first listed the keywords based on the research title including Critical Success Factors, risk assessment, process safety, corrosion management, inspection Plan, failure mechanism, Risk Based Inspection, Risk Based Maintenance, Risk-based Integrity Management, and Asset Integrity Management. Later, each term was searched specifically and without time limit in the internal and external databases of Science Direct, PubMed, Google Scholar, SID, Google Search, Magiran, Civilica, and Scopus. Result: A systematic review of various studies showed that critical success factors provided the necessary context for the implementation of a risk-based inspection process in the process industries and were essential factors for the effective implementation of the RBI method. Conclusion: By analyzing the results of the studies we found that identifying CSFs can improve the effective implementation of RBI in industries and guarantee the benefits mentioned for this method. Moreover, the engineering and accurate implementation of risk-based inspection method will lead to the best implementation of management systems based on the risk and process safety and its improvement.

scholarly journals Development of Advanced Advisory System for Anomalies (AAA) to Predict and Detect the Abnormal Operation in Fired Heaters for Real Time Process Safety and Optimization

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 7183
Author(s):  
Faraz Qasim ◽  
Doug Hyung Lee ◽  
Jongkuk Won ◽  
Jin-Kuk Ha ◽  
Sang Jin Park
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Fault Tree Analysis ◽  
Petrochemical Plant ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Time Process ◽  
Process Industries ◽  
Advisory System ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Flexible Architecture ◽  
Abnormal Operation

As the technology is emerging, the process industries are actively migrating to Industry 4.0 to optimize energy, production, profit, and the quality of products. It should be noted that real-time process monitoring is the area where most of the energies are being placed for the sake of optimization and safety. Big data and knowledge-based platforms are receiving much attention to provide a comprehensive decision support system. In this study, the Advanced Advisory system for Anomalies (AAA) is developed to predict and detect the abnormal operation in fired heaters for real-time process safety and optimization in a petrochemical plant. This system predicts and raises an alarm for future problems and detects and diagnoses abnormal conditions using root cause analysis (RCA), using the combination of FMEA (failure mode and effects analysis) and FTA (fault tree analysis) techniques. The developed AAA system has been integrated with databases in a petrochemical plant, and the results have been validated well by testing the application over an extensive period. This AAA online system provides a flexible architecture, and it can also be integrated into other systems or databases available at different levels in a plant. This automated AAA platform continuously monitors the operation, checks the dynamic conditions configured in it, and raises an alarm if the statistics exceed their control thresholds. Moreover, the effect of heaters’ abnormal conditions on efficiency and other KPIs (key performance indicators) is studied to explore the scope of improvement in heaters’ operation.

Compliance Audit Model for Managing Process Safety in Process Industries

2014 ◽  
Vol 625 ◽  
pp. 406-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Diana Abdul Majid ◽  
Azmi Mohd Shariff ◽  
Edmund Soon Boon Thiam
Keyword(s):  
Input Data ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Process Industries ◽  
Microsoft Access ◽  
Compliance Audit

Compliance audit for process safety management (PSM) is a technique to verify that the implementation of the PSM program is in compliance with OSHA standards and to identify potential deficiencies in the PSM program used. However, unavailability of an easy audit techniques hinders the compliances to PSM standards in industries. An audit model is introduced based on OSHA PSM standard to provide a standardize format that utilizes the Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) as a basis. A case study based on the training element of OSHA PSM is performed to verify the effectiveness and to ensure the PSM standard compliances. The model is based on Microsoft Access which enables the user to input data, manage and track information. The model is useful to the employee as the weaknesses in the PSM program can be identified and rectified to prevent any major accidents.

Human factors in process safety: the top 10 issues

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 444
Author(s):  
Ronny Lardner
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Process Industries ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Resource Sector

There is an increasing emphasis on the importance of managing human factors to achieve improved safety and business performance in the chemical process industries and resource sector. Major process safety accidents, including those at Texas City, Varanus Island and Montara have again highlighted the importance of addressing this aspect of performance. Recently the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) announced an additional focus on human factors as part of their regulatory activities, noting that these factors are relevant to performance across safety, integrity, and environmental management. This extended abstract explains how the subject of human factors in process safety has been defined in the UK, categorised by the top 10 key topics. How this targeted approach helps manage this aspect of process safety performance is also discussed. Finally, this extended abstract shows how safety culture and behavioural safety are not the same as human factors. Case studies of the oil and gas industry show how attending to the top 10 delivers benefits by strengthening the effectiveness of management systems, and improving human reliability. This extended abstract directs the reader to a range of high-quality, open-source research, guidance, tools, and techniques to improve across the top 10 human-factors subjects in process safety.

Effects of Human Factors in Process Safety

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-202
Author(s):  
Gargi Bhattacharjee ◽  
Sudip Kumar Das
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Near Miss ◽  
Accident Analysis ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Process Industries ◽  
Human And Organizational Factors

Accidents and near-miss accidents in chemical industries are widespread. Most of the incidents occurred due to combinations of organizational and human factors. To identify the causes for an incident of an accident analysis is needed, because it reveals the possible causes behind the accidents. Accident analysis shows the human and organizational factors that support learning from the events. Literature review shows that human error plays an important role of accidents in process industries. The chapter discusses some case studies which are received very little media publicity and also no proper assessment. At first reports on the incidents were collected from newspapers and then the place was visited to conduct an interview with local people and present and past workers with the help of the PESO (M/S Petroleum and Explosive Safety Organization, Eastern Region, Govt. of India).

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