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January 2010 - Chemical OnLine Jan 15 - Honeywell recently announced it has acquired rights to technology developed by Shell Global Solutions (Shell) for gathering field data and helping industrial plants to safely increase production while reducing maintenance and operating costs. January 2010 - Reuters Jan 5 - Sunoco Refining and Marketing will pay $173,310 in civil penalties for air quality violations at its 178,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, that occurred in 2008, state authorities said on Tuesday. January 2010 - Dow Jones Jan 4 - LONDON Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) and two of its contractors have been fined a total of GBP283,332 by the U.K. Health and Safety Executive over an accident at the Stanlow refinery in Cheshire in 2007 that left a ... |
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The ASM Consortium and Honeywell authors wrote an article for InTech on “The Human Side of Safety”. The article discusses the need for better attention to human factors to reduce the frequency and severity of process safety incidents. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Ling Rothrock and Penn State to the ASM Consortium. The Penn State research team develops and uses human-in-the-loop (HITL) simulations to enable knowledge and skill development through scenario-based training. They also use HITL simulations to assess communication and coordination in teams. The team uses computational tools, such as finite state machines, to evaluate the coherence and efficacy of procedures. Herman Van Roost, General Manager Industrial Organization and Competences Project, Total Petrochemicals recently presented this paper at the Safety Culture Management conference in Prague. "The Need for Excellence in Safe Operations to Manage High Risk Plants" discusses why, with so much emphasis on process safety, the problem continues to get worse. He shares his thoughts on how the required competency to operate plants is increasing at the same time the complexity of the operation is also increasing. Mr. Van Roost shares a case study and how the initial finding led to "human error" as the problem, but subsequent analysis found that the incident occurred due to lack of adapted formalism and coherent supervision & coordination for complex operations like unit start-up. The ASM Consortium finds this paper and discussion in line with our thinking on managing abnormal situations and would like to thank Mr. Van Roost for allowing us to post his paper on our site. Gain a better understanding of the contents of the ASM Consortium Guidelines: Effective Operator Display Design, including:
The sixteen guideline categories (from display content to display layout to use of color to alarm annunciation to management of change) and
Specific design guidelines to address to avoid significant pitfalls.
PDF of the slides and the Recording are both available for viewing.
Available Now! Effective Alarm Management Practices The ASM Consortium Guidelines for Effective Alarm Management Practices (ISBN: 987-1442184251) are available for purchase at Createspace.com at the link below, or from Amazon. These guidelines can be used to assess the quality of a company's alarm management practices and develop an improvement plan.
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March 2010 - KOB.com Mar 3 - Artesia Police Department confirm two workers have died, while two remain critically injured after a storage tank exploded at the Navajo Refinery Tuesday afternoon. March 2010 - Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO, March 2 - Brazilian state run oil firm Petrobras should complete the restart of its 242,000 barrel-per-day Duque de Caxias refinery within 10 days after a substation fire on Sunday, the company said late Monday. |
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