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May 2012 - The Construction Index
May 30- A demolition firm has been fined for safety failings after an employee suffered serious burns when a live gas pipe ignited in his face.
May 2012 - The Sacramento Bee
May 29, DALLAS, -- The United Steelworkers (USW) will be raising pay equity and safety concerns at the ExxonMobil shareholders meeting May 30, 9:00 a.m., ...
May 2012 - News Wales
May 28- The fire and explosion at the Valero (formerly Chevron) Oil Refinery, Rhoscrowther, Pembrokeshire, on June 2 2011, in which four workers were killed and another seriously injured, ...
May 2012 - Herald Online
May 21- Two days after a ruptured pipe sprayed four workers at the former Bowater plant with a “cooking chemical” that left them with severe burns, emergency personnel say the accident is not an indication of unsafe working.
May 2012 - iWatch News
May 21, CLAIRTON, Pa. — Early on the morning of Sept. 3, 2009, Nicholas Adrian Revetta left the Pittsburgh suburb of Pleasant Hills and drove 15 minutes to a job at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Plant, a soot-blackened industrial complex on the Monongahela River
The ASM Consortium Member, TOTAL has successfully and safely completed the Elgin G4 well head intervention by pumping heavy mud into the well. On May 16, the Elgin gas leak in UK North Sea has been completely stopped within 12 hours of the operation. On May 21 following 5 days of close monitoring of the G4 well, TOTAL confirmed the success of the intervention and that the leak has completely stopped.
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The ASM Consortium member, TOTAL had safety of its workers as top priority when a gas leak from a plugged production well, the G4, was detected on the Elgin wellhead platform on 25 March. TOTAL is working closely with the local authorities and is mobilizing all the resources necessary to control the incident and resolve the situation in a safe and timely manner.
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In his article “The Control Room of the Future – Smarter Reality”, Jim Montague, Executive Editor of Control Global highlights the significance of the work done by the ASM Consortium in Operator Effectiveness and Human Factors, to design control rooms with next generation technologies. For 15 years, the ASM Consortium work has focused on empowering operating teams to proactively manage their plants to maximize safety.
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Members of the Abnormal Situation Management (ASM®) Consortium gathered for a week-long event at Honeywell in Phoenix, AZ. This week-long Quarterly Review Meeting (QRM) is a platform for the members to share the benefits gained from the ASM practices and products, and to discuss new challenges faced in plant operations. During the Phoenix QRM, members and guest speakers discussed how human factors relate to abnormal situation management.
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The recent Plant Management & Maintenance Newsletter by Automation.com features the article on how to improve communication of critical information in industrial operations by following a structured approach to shift handovers. The article “A Critical Shift: How Adding Structure Can Make Shift Handovers More Effective” by Tom Plocher (Honeywell), Jason Laberge (Honeywell) and Brian Thompson (Engen) is based on the researched funded by the ASM Consortium. The research has helped members of the ASM Consortium in improving safety in their plant operations by reducing miscommunication and misunderstanding of critical information during shift handovers.
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May 2012 - ABC Gippsland
May 30- A maintenance worker at the Murray Goulburn plant at Maffra suffered minor burns from a frozen gas leak last night.
May 2012 - Trib
May 29- Two workers were injured during a brief fire at the same refinery near Rawlins where four workers were injured in another blaze last month.
May 2012 - Trib
May 29- Two workers at the Sinclair refinery near Rawlins were injured in a late-night fire on Friday, a Sinclair spokesman said.
May 2012 - The Times of India
May 29- JAIPUR: Two persons were injured in a fire-related incident in a bottling plant of Indian Oil Corporation at Sitapura area near here, police said.
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