John Merriman Jan1, 2010 – Miami, FL Abhisam Software has just announced the release of their much awaited e-learning course on Safety Instrumented Systems. From the sneak previews that were shown to us last week, this course looks to be smashing. A hell of lot of use of Flash based animations and interactive simulations, real world solved … Read more
Sun, Dec 20, 2009- Today’s industrial safety incident is not really “industrial” but serves as a good case study for doing HAZOP and other scenario analyses in industries. In what has been termed the biggest failure of the electrical systems in a major facility like the England-France channel tunnel (chunnel for short), bad weather is … Read more
The CSB released the following information regarding last years fire and explosion at CITGO refinery in Texas. Apparently there was a large vapor cloud release of Hydrogen Fluoride too, it now emerges. The following is the text of the release (in italics) Houston, Texas, December 9, 2009 – The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today … Read more
Very soon, we will have the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster-one of the worst industrial accidents in the world. For the chemical industry worldwide, Bhopal is said to be the wake-up call and turning point that forever changed attitudes towards safety. For those of you who are too young to remember the incident, … Read more
Kaiga, Nov29,2009- Around 55 workers at a nuclear power plant located at Kaiga, Karnataka in southern India reportedly fell sick after they drank water from a drinking water cooler. Investigations have now revealed that the water (supposed to be drinking water) was contaminated with Tritium, a radioactive form of Hydrogen. Officials are now investigating if … Read more
