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What if you unload the wrong material into a tank? — Process Safety Beacon, April 2012
What if you unload the wrong material into a tank? — Process Safety Beacon, April 2012
- CCPS
- Digest
- Process Safety Beacon April 2012
- Hazardous SubstancesHuman FactorsProcess Safety
- Hazardous substancesHuman factorsLoss of containmentProcess safety
- Fluid transfer
- HoseProcess pipework and pipelinesStorage tanks
- Competence and trainingManagement of changeOperating and work procedures
- Downstream and process industries
Summary
This bulletin describes a chemical delivery connected to the wrong storage tank, producing toxic gases and prompting evacuation and sheltering. It examines similar labels, identical connections, procedural changes and missing checks, and recommends clearer identification, connection verification, qualified workers and management of procedural changes.
Classifications: Hazardous substances; hazardous chemicals; chemical exposure.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Loss of containment; containment loss.
Classifications: Process safety; major accident hazards.
Classifications: Fluid transfer; fluid loading; fluid offloading.
Classifications: Hose; flexible hose.
Classifications: Process pipework and pipelines; process piping.
Classifications: Storage tanks; atmospheric tanks.
Classifications: Competence and training; competency assurance; safety training.
Classifications: Management of change; MOC; change management.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Downstream and process industries; refining; petrochemicals.
Summary
One-page Beacon on the consequences of unloading the wrong material into a storage tank.
Process Safety Beacon April 2012. Themes: hazardous substances, human factors, process safety.