John Merriman April 24, 2013 Washington DC– The US Chemical Safety Board has postponed today’s scheduled public meeting regarding the Chevron Richmond refinery accident due to its investigators being busy in yet another major accident last week, the West fertilizer plant explosion and fire. The meeting was scheduled for the Board to consider and vote upon the … Read more
April 18, 2013 Washington DC-It seems that the pipeline corrosion that likely was the cause of Chevron’s Richmond refinery fire last year, seems to be present at other refineries too. An investigation by an independent agency working closely with the US Chemical Safety Board(CSB) and OSHA have found evidence of corrosion in the El Segundo … Read more
April 19, 2013– The US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new animated video that shows the sequence of events leading up to the fire at Chevron’s Richmond refinery in August 2012 (last year). The fire and its causes were being investigated by the CSB and the video is a result of that analysis … Read more
What is LOPA? In this short LOPA tutorial, we will understand the Layer of Protection Analysis technique or LOPA for short. So what does one mean by it? LOPA is used mainly in the process industries as a risk assessment tool. Every industrial process has a degree of risk associated with running it and this … Read more
April 04, 2013– There have been several combustible dust accidents in industrial plants across the world, including the US. The last major one was at the Hoeganaes Iron Powder Facility in Gallatin, Tennessee in 2011, when three accidents occurred at the same facility within one year. Another major accident was the one in the year … Read more
