1. Digital tools enhance chemical safety through predictive monitoring and real-time analytics. 2. Electrical safety is vital to preventing catastrophic incidents in chemical plants. 3. IoT sensors ...

Process safety can be approached in many different ways. This article provides an unconventional way of looking at process safety that ties together wide-ranging ideas from seemingly disparate fields.

In 1985, under a congressional mandate (Public Law 99-145), the Army instituted a sustained program to destroy elements of the chemical munition stockpile. In 1992, Congress enacted Public Law 102-484 ...

Ming Yang has lots of experience teaching people about safety from very basic concepts. When he arrived at Nazarbayev University, in Kazakhstan, in 2017, he became the first professor to teach ...

Safety experts warn that eliminating the Chemical Safety Board would remove a critical investigative partner to OSHA, leaving gaps in root cause analysis and hazard prevention. The Chemical Safety ...

"The absence of strong process safety protocols—and the failure to apply lessons from past similar events—put TS USA’s workers at serious risk, with one of them tragically being killed.” On June 3, ...

In a quiet but consequential move, the White House has announced plans to eliminate the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) by October 2026. While the agency may be small, ...

It's been over four years since a deadly chemical plant explosion in Kanawha County killed a worker and injured three others, starting a large fire and dumping car-damaging debris nearly half a mile ...

This chapter describes recent efforts by the chemical and petroleum industries to define process safety metrics suited to the needs of their enterprises. It then discusses how such concepts can be ...