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 ...

AI can enhance this culture by moving from reactive to proactive strategies. AI allows for real-time monitoring and predictive analysis to detect contamination. I had a very positive experience with ...

Good process safety in any organization requires specific knowledge, experience and skills. These building blocks of process safety lie, of course, mainly with your organization’s staff. So, how do ...

Ask any company if they have a safety culture and the answer is probably yes. Ask them how they define a safety culture and you’re likely to get different answers. Some may point to KPIs that show how ...

Process safety is about understanding hazards and risk, managing risk by providing the appropriate layers of protection to reduce the frequency and severity of incidents, and learning from incidents ...

Over the past few decades, various control disciplines like process, batch, motion and discrete control have been consolidated into a single, common automation architecture. This integration has ...

The construction industry thrives on a robust safety culture. Cultivating an effective safety environment goes beyond adhering to policies and procedures and pursuing incident-free days. While metrics ...

The military has a language all its own, and in the Army we have our own distinct dialect. Over the past few years, we've adopted several new catchphrases to describe changes in the way we do business ...

Safety culture refers to the ways that safety issues are addressed in a workplace. It often reflects “the attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values that employees share in relation to safety.” 1 The ...

Establishing a strong safety and security culture is one of the fundamental management principles for an organization dealing with radioactive material. Such a culture influences the organization’s ...