Safety Moment #105: Process Safety Wisdom
This Safety Moment is one in a series to do with the process safety profession.
Safety Moment #77: NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material)
NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) is found in many naturally-occurring materials, including some oil and gas deposits.
Sources of NORM include:
Safety Moment #83: The One-Legged Stool
Reproduced with permission
Further thoughts on this topic are provided at the post The One-Legged Stool.
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Early in the 20th century a factory in the town of Pitsea in England manufactured the explosives using nitro-glycerine.
Net Zero
The Net Zero Commitment
Many organizations and companies have committed to ‘Net Zero’ goals, i.e., they aim to fundamentally restructure their activities such that they are not adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere by a specific date — the year 2050 is often chosen. The term ‘Net Zero by 2050’ has become particularly prominent because it is so catchy.
Safety Moment #102: ALARP and Acceptable Risk
Fundamentally risk is subjective; it is not possible to define what level of risk is acceptable dispassionately and objectively. Any two risk scenarios are inherently different from one another due to people’s inherent understanding and acceptance of different types of risk, their emotions, memories, hopes and fears.
Safety Moment #104: Behavior-Based Safety
A behavior-based safety (BBS) program aims to make permanent changes in the manner in which people work. Safety becomes a way of life that is baked into everyone's behavior. It is important to recognize, however, that a BBS program does not attempt to chance who a person is, and it most certainly is not a pop-psychology program.
Safety Moment #89: Layout of Process Facilities
Siting / Layout
The words ‘siting’ and ‘layout’ are often used interchangeably, but, strictly speaking, they have different meanings. Siting is concerned with the location of a facility. For example, if a company is planning on building a new chemical plant its management may consider the relative merits of sites in Texas, Mexico or China.
Safety Moment #103: Human Error Modeling
Human performance is inherently unpredictable. Human beings are, after all, human. However, those working in industrial risk management have developed means of modeling types of human error, and the rates at which they can occur. One such technique is known as THERP (Technique for Human Error Rate Prediction). The method uses Boolean logic to model and predict human error rates.
