Distilleries are Dangerous!

I have visited many distilleries in sugar plants. When compared to chemical plants, the operators knowledge of process safety is limited. In one of the distilleries, the operators were not aware of the reason why the water level was being maintained at the bottom of a flare tower. As experienced people leave the organization, it becomes all the more important for management to implement a process safety management system in distilleries. An incident in a distillery which experienced a nitric acid spill and was subsequently closed is given in this link.