November 4, 2014

Case study on unusual failures in hydrogen production

A good case study on unusual failures in hydrogen production can be read in this link


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November 2, 2014

Learn lessons from this confined space incident

 LINK HAS BEEN UPDATED

An investigation of the marine accident investigation board of a confined space incident involving three fatalities indicates how careful you must be.
In this incident, three people died when they entered a ships hold.  You can also read about the rescue attempt and how the rescue contributed to the number of fatalities.
Read the report in this link.


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November 1, 2014

Learn lessons from this confined space incident

An investigation of the marine accident investigation board of a confined space incident involving three fatalities indicates how careful you must be.
In this incident, three people died when they entered a ships hold.  You can also read about the rescue attempt and how the rescue contributed to the number of fatalities.
Read the report in this link.

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Pesticide reacts with moisture and overpressurises container

 An employee at a company was injured when the top of a seven gallon metal container top burst open and hit his arm.
The built up pressure was caused by a pesticide packet that due to a defect, was not entirely closed and activated with moisture from the air and began releasing the small amount of chemicals it held, pressurizing the container.

Read about the incident in this link
  

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October 29, 2014

Could Bhopal Happen in America?


 Read the Al Jazeera article in this link

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October 28, 2014

Technology in Aviation

Process safety and aviation are commonly linked through automation and not to mention, the human!.  A plane is a very interesting pressure vessel which is subject to cyclical pressures and rarefied atmospheres.Read an article on how cabins in planes are pressurised and provided oxygen so that we don't pass out at high altitudes in this link.


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October 27, 2014

Symposium on process safety

IIT Gandhinagar is conducting an International conference on Safety and Symposium on Process Safety on December 5th and 6th. More information can be obtained in this link.

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