Jan 22, Washington, D.C.- The US Chemical Safety Board has published a draft investigation report, inviting comments from the public, regarding the August 2012 Chevron’s Richmond, California refinery pipeline rupture and resultant vapor cloud fire. Incident Summary: On August 6, 2012, the Chevron U.S.A. Inc. Refinery in Richmond, California (“the Chevron Richmond Refinery”) experienced a … Read more
For those of you who wish to know something about HAZOP (Hazard and Operability Study) in brief, here is a slideshow
April 24, 2013 Miami FL– Todays informative post in the Industrial Plant Safety blog will give you an idea about Risk Assessment in industry, especially the process industry. The Process Industry covers a large range of industrial sectors such as Petrochemicals, Chemicals, Oil and Gas, Fertilizers, Pulp and Paper, Food & Beverages, Pharmaceutical manufacturing and … 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
You must have come across the term HAZOP very often lately, as it has been in the news more often. HAZOP is an acronym which is short for Hazard and Operability study and it was first introduced many decades ago by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) of UK. ICI no longer exists today as ICI (various … Read more
