Digest
Are we reliving past incidents? — Process Safety Beacon, February 2014
Are we reliving past incidents? — Process Safety Beacon, February 2014
- CCPS
- Digest
- Process Safety Beacon February 2014
- Learning from IncidentsProcess Safety
- FireLearning from incidentsProcess safety
- Storage tanks
- Ignition source controlManagement of changeRisk assessmentSafety communication
- Downstream and process industries
- Onshore facility
Summary
This bulletin compares recurring storage-tank fires involving carbon adsorbers in Norway and Georgia, USA. Adsorption heat and the absence of flame arresters were shared design problems. It advocates retaining and sharing incident knowledge, reviewing events elsewhere, and evaluating new hazards introduced by environmental protection equipment through process hazard analysis and management of change.
Classifications: Fire; fire safety.
Classifications: Learning from incidents; incident learning; lessons learnt; lessons learned.
Classifications: Process safety; major accident hazards.
Classifications: Storage tanks; atmospheric tanks.
Classifications: Ignition source control; ignition prevention.
Classifications: Management of change; MOC; change management.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Downstream and process industries; refining; petrochemicals.
Classifications: Onshore facility; onshore plant.
Summary
Monthly one-page Beacon on why process safety incidents keep recurring and the need to learn from earlier events.
Process Safety Beacon February 2014. Themes: learning from incidents, process safety.