Discrete and process safety systems: why not integrate?
I was talking yesterday about the convergence between digital safety networks that were originally developed for discrete environments and process safety instrumented systems.Today the current issue of...
View ArticleThe Hidden Costs of Successful Safety
It’s not easy to keep process applications safe, but it can be even harder to find help to do it right. In this environment, safety depends on asking the right questions.In his “SIL 201�...
View ArticleWhat's this? A bogus security survey?
Jake Brodsky noticed this on the Industrial Defender website:July 26, 2007Dear Chemical Industry Participant,A number of chemical industry companies have recently reported that they arereceiving calls...
View ArticleMoron safety--pun intended
Last week, the UK HSE (Health and Safety Executive), the UK equivalent of OSHA, reported that in their opinion, more than half of the oil and gas industry's basic assets in the UK North Sea that have...
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Another Process Safety Failure?
The news media are full of reports of the disaster that occurred overnight at the Dixie Crystals plant, now owned by Imperial Sugar, in Savannah, Ga.read more
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Former Chemical Safety Board Chairwoman points finger at OSHA
The fingerpointing and blame assigning is already starting, even though we don't yet know what really caused the explosion, deaths and injuries at the Imperial Sugar Dixie Crystals plant near Savannah,...
View ArticleSo you think Bob Adamski's nightmare is wrong? Read on!
Bob Adamski, Invensys' SIS guru, has been talking about the hacking of process safety systems for several years now. I think he's right, but we appear to be in a minority. Bob gave me his nightmare...
View ArticleHoneywell Safety Manager gets NFPA 72 Cert from USA certifier
From the press release: HONEYWELL SAFETY MANAGER ATTAINS CERTIFICATION FROM FACTORY MUTUAL Safety Manager is First Safety System in Process Industries to Receive NFPA 72 Certification from...
View ArticleFoundation Fieldbus SIS-- we CAN all get along!
Rich Timoney, president of the Fieldbus Foundation, likened it to the difference between forensics and diagnostic medicine. One figures out what happened after you're dead, the other keeps you alive...
View ArticleBill Goble and the Safety Life Cycle
Process Safety: The Must Know“Process Safety is getting less expensive to engineer and keep current,” said Bill Goble, principal partner and co-founder of exida, a provider of IEC 61508 Product...
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