In October 2016, there was a chemical spill at a grain company in Atchison, KS where over 100 people were treated for chemical exposure. Luckily, there was no loss of life in the industrial accident. Let’s take a look at how Process Safety Management (PSM) may have been involved to keep this accident from being […]
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PSM in Space Exploration?
FALCON 9 FIRST STAGE LAND LANDING (ORBCOMM 2 MISSION) Courtesy of SpaceX.com On September 1, 2016 SpaceX attempted to launch a Falcon 9 rocket with payload and “during a standard pre-launch static fire test for the AMOS-6 mission, there was an anomaly at SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 resulting in loss of the […]
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PSM in Paper Mills?
Ah, the smell of Kraft mills…it is amazing that one type of plant has given an entire industry a bad name for its putrid smells. But that is a whole different blog post. Let’s take a look at how PSM may be applied in the Pulp & Paper industry. In early February, there was an […]