June 18, 2018
June 14, 2018
June 10, 2018
Lessons Learned from Process Safety Incidents (and Near Misses)
Lessons Learned from Process Safety Incidents (and Near Misses): Every chemical engineer knows that seemingly small mistakes or temporary lapses in judgment can have serious consequences.
June 6, 2018
June 2, 2018
Static electricty incidents
- Solvent unloading from tanker to drums having 200 lits capacity was in progress. 50% of solvent unloaded in HDPE drums. Fire took place near tanker. Solvent storage godown also caught fire. One fatality & nine injured.Root Causes: Static charge generated during unloading solvent from tanker to drum, No proper earthing & bonding arrangement while unloading solvent from tanker to drum to neutralize the static charge, Lack of awareness training.
- Charging of solid material from HDPE bags to kettle was going on. Fire took place due to static charge resulting in one fatality and three injured. Root Causes: Earthing & bonding was not adequately provided to neutralize the static charge generated. Potential hazard involved in the process was not captured properly by using hazard identification techniques like HAZOP study.