Loss Prevention
Tips on communicating LOPA results to management
Communicate clearly and explain thoroughly
Relief device inlet piping: Beyond the 3 percent rule
With careful consideration, an engineer can be certain that an installation will not chatter
Safety instrumented function design reduces nuisance trips
Implementing low-cost best practices can provide peace of mind
Case 65: Taking risks and making high-level presentations
Tips on how to communicate with managers
HP Viewpoint: The evolution of safety in the oil and gas industry
As a safety professional with 25 years of experience in the hydrocarbon and chemical industries, I’ve had the unique opportunity to view first-hand the evolution of safety. Upon entering this fie..
HP Reliability: One pump fire per 1,000 pump repairs
While performing reliability audits decades ago, pump-failure statistics were made available or could be recovered with relative ease. But even then, the sources were usually kept confidential because..
HP Integration Strategies: Aging HPI workforce drives need for operator training systems
As a leading research and consulting organization focused on the process industries, manufacturing, infrastructure and other industrial sectors, ARC Advisory Group has been closely following the emerg..
US business groups urge Obama to halt EPA's reconsideration of ozone regs
The American Petroleum Institute (API), along with more than 170 businesses and business groups that employ American workers, sent a letter to President Obama urging him to stop the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) voluntary reconsideration of new National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone.
Limit the damage from a vapor cloud loss
Risk reduction ideas from personal experience
Seal off costly refinery leaks
Older refinery seeks better method to be leak-free
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