The ASM Consortium maintains a list of incidents, near misses and accidents happening across the globe in the process industry which is available under the Current Incidents page. In 2009-10, ASM Consortium recorded at least 1 incident every three days. This list is not all inclusive but provides a comprehensive list of global incidents affecting process industries as reported in the media.
The ASM Consortium successfully concluded a day long intensive Operations Outreach Seminar at Paris, France, hosted by Total. The objectives of this seminar were to provide the ASM Member company plant and operations staff with an understanding of the Abnormal Situation Management problem, and share examples of how to mitigate abnormal situations through the deployment of Effective ASM Operations Practices. The seminar was attended by over forty (40) plant and operations leaders, HSE (Health Safety Environment) managers and other executives, of user member companies, interested in learning more about how to keep people and plants safe. The basis of the ASM Consortium is collaboration and information-sharing and by working together, members achieve far more than they could working alone.
ABB showcased its next generation HMI graphics interface at ABB Automation and Power World 2011, held in Orlando, Florida in the month of April. According to Control Engineering the ABB HMI graphics interface has been influenced by the ASM Consortium’s Effective Operator Display Design Practices guidelines. Here is the excerpt from the article- “… looking at the HMIs on display, it’s clear that ABB has implemented graphics that certainly look like they have been influenced heavily by the recommendations of the Abnormal Situation Management Consortium.”
ASM Consortium paper on Effective Shift Handover wins award at 2011 HCI Conference
The ASM Consortium has been recognized for their contribution in the field of “Human Factors” at HCI International Conference 2011 held at Orlando, Florida on 9-14th July. ASM Consortium’s “Effective Shift Handover” research paper has won the Best Paper Award in the area -Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, at the conference as well as the best paper of the overall HCI International conference among the 11 conferences held with a total 1300 papers presented. The ASM Consortium research team consisted of Tom Plocher (Honeywell), Shanqing Yin (NTU), Jason Laberge (Honeywell), Jason Telner (Honeywell) and Brian Thompson (Engen Refinery). The research on “Effective Shift Handover” focused on taking a more structured approach to document field operations daily activities in shift logs and shift handovers in process plants.
Have you wanted to know more about the ASM Consortium - What is the ASM Consortium? How does the group work? What do they do? And why is it important? Listen to Members talk about their experience applying ASM and how they benefit from the long association with the Consortium. Learn more about ASM Concepts like Alarm Management, Operator Display Design. The ASM track at Honeywell Users Group in Phoenix, Arizona from 12th -16th June has it all.