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Driving Safer Chemical Manufacturing Performance

Driving Safer Chemical Manufacturing Performance

Safety is consistently among the highest priorities for manufacturers and producers. Critical goals are to avoid safety incidents, keep site personnel safe, protect the community around you, protect the environment as a whole, and improve your corporate financial health. A robust safety culture has many facets, including occupational safety, containment safety, process safety, and functional safety.

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Remote Proof-Testing of Level Measurement Devices Supports Safer Tank Operations

Remote Proof-Testing of Level Measurement Devices Supports Safer Tank Operations

Storage tanks containing hazardous materials require safety instrumented systems (SIS) to prevent overfills. Digital technology in the latest level measurement devices used in SIS enables them to be proof-tested remotely, which provides significant advantages. The...

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Integrated versus Separate Control and Safety

Integrated versus Separate Control and Safety

Panelists at a session at the 2019 ARC Industry Forum, Safety Systems: Integrated versus Not? Does It Really Matter?, set out to discuss the pros and cons of the approaches and how they accommodate different risk factors. ARC Advisory Group's Mark Sen Gupta moderated...

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Embracing Safety Requirements Specifications

Embracing Safety Requirements Specifications

The Institute of Measurement and Control is hosting the Functional Safety 2016 conference this week in London. This conference seeks to engage practitioners from a wide variety of industrial sectors who have responsibilities in any functional safety lifecycle phase to...

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10 Ways to Improve Functional Safety

10 Ways to Improve Functional Safety

ISA Portugal recently hosted a conference on functional safety. Emerson's Russell Cockman, whom you may recall from earlier safety-related posts, presented 10 ways to improve functional safety without worrying where to put the decimal point in the calculation. From...

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Roundup of Process Safety Thoughts and Ideas

As we did with the recent energy efficiency post, I wanted to highlight a few key points made in past IEC 61511 safety lifecycle-related posts. This global safety standard provides a performance-based methodology to plan and execute your process safety efforts through...

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