As everyone in Houston has heard, the Arkema plant in Crosby has been in a bit of a bind since Hurricane Harvey hit last weekend. The plant makes an organic peroxide which is the intermediate in the Cumene process and used to make phenol and acetone from benzene and propene. Benzene and propene are used […]
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What is Process Safety?
When asked, “What is Process Safety?” the quick answer is that Process Safety helps “keep it in the pipe.” However, it goes well beyond that simple explanation. Although the term Process Safety is not in the dictionary, Merriam-Webster defines process as “a series of actions or operations conducing to an end; especially: a continuous operation or treatment especially in […]
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Leading and Lagging Indicators
Who doesn’t love data? Indicators are important in the Process Safety sphere, and are a great way of having a snapshot to see what is going on in a system. Taking that snapshot requires a facility to define the key performance indicators to focus on. As Peter Drucker wrote, “What gets measured gets managed.” In […]