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  • Mission

    Operating teams empowered and enabled to proactively manage their plants to maximize safety and minimize environmental impact while allowing the processes to be pushed to their optimal limits.

  • Definition

    A detailed definition of what an abnormal situation is and how it relates to process operations.

  • Challenges

    The challenges facing the industry in handling abnormal situations. These are described in the context of the anatomy of a catastrophic incident.

  • Sources

    A discussion of the key sources or causes of abnormal situations, including people and work context factors, equipment factors, and process factors.

  • Impact

    A discussion of the disruptive and financial impact of abnormal situations on the chemical processing industry.
 

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  • Cognitive Issues Associated with Process Safety

    The 2012 report no. 460 published by the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP), is intended to raise awareness of the important contribution that cognitive issues can have to process safety and environmental incidents. The document summarizes some of these issues and sets out recommendations to improve their management within the industry.
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  • “Future of Process Safety” Academic Session Values The ASM Consortium’s Human Factors Research

    Dr. Herman Van Roost of TOTAL, an User Member of the ASM Consortium recently presented on “Human Factors in Process Safety” at the Academic Session organized by Delta Process Academy, the process safety branch of Essenscia (Federation of the Belgian chemical industry) in Antwerp, Belgium. The key presentation message was - ‘The current incident reporting approaches do not effectively capture the influence of human reliability on process safety or abnormal situation management performance’. This was based on the findings of the ASM Consortium’s research done on the public and shared member incidents.
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  • Automation World’s article on Next Gen Control Room features The ASM Consortium’s Human Factors Work

    Automation World’s recent article on “Changing Workforce Drives Control Room Modernization” acknowledges the importance of 'Human Factors' in designing next generation control rooms. For the past 15 years, the ASM Consortium’s research has focused on designing solutions based on Human Factors engineering. Our 'Work Environment' practice discipline is centered on control room design. Honeywell Process Solution leverages the work of the ASM Consortium in offering solutions for designing next generation control rooms.
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  • The ASM Consortium’s article on “Effective Procedures” features in the Chemical Processing Magazine.

    Chemical Processing magazine’s January edition focuses on how the ASM Consortium’s effective procedural practices guidelines are crucial for successful plant operations and managing abnormal situations. The article is authored by Dr. Peter Bullemer of Human Centered Solutions, an associate member of the ASM Consortium. The article is based on the ASM Consortium’s Effective Procedural Practices guidelines book which is an outcome of our 15 years of research in procedural operations.
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  • The ASM Consortium records more than 1000 incidents globally in 2012.

    To create awareness about the serious nature of process safety incidents, the ASM Consortium continues to track and record incidents and accidents happening globally. In 2012, we recorded more than 1000 incidents on our website. The incidents list is not all inclusive but provides a comprehensive list of global incidents affecting process industries as reported in the media. The ASM Consortium has been archiving such incidents since 2008.
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