In 2022 OSHA (the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration) published a proposed update to its Process Safety Management standard. This is the first change to the standard since its release in 1992.
OSHA has identified 24 topics which they would like to change, modify or enhance. This ebook describes each of these topics and discusses how they can be implemented. The topics include:
This book provides guidance to the faith community as they address climate change and other ‘Age of Limits’ issues. A preview of Chapter 1 is available at the following links.
This analysis do with the catastrophic incident at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant was first published as an article at this site in the year 2017. The event itself took place on March 11th 2011. At first it was headline news. Then publicity to do with what happened receded into the background and new crises arose and captured our attention.
Pump seals are a frequent source of leaks in process and energy facilities. Moreover, the discharged liquid will normally be at high pressure, so it can travel a long distance and/or form a spray. Therefore, when laying out a facility it is important to make sure that pumps are located at a safe distance from other equipment and piping.
This page provides a list of our posts on the theme of ‘The Process Safety Professional’.
The original post for this topic is located here.
A theme of this site is that climate change leadership will be provided by businesses, not necessarily because they want to “do the right thing”, but because they want to be commercially successful and because they want to avoid their own “Kodak Moment”.
With this thought in mind, we have started a series of subscription-based posts on the ‘Net Zero by 2050’ theme. Our aim is to describe both the realities and the opportunities of our rapidly changing world.
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