Fires NOVA Chemicals uncontrolled process fire

APPENDIX III NOVA CHEMICALS UNCONTROLLED PROCESS FIRE AND LOPC METRICS... 

Lipton s. He spoke consistently and passionately both to employees within NOVA and to his peers in the chemical industry advocating strong executive commitment to process safety. As a result, NOVA has seen a reduction of uncontrolled process fires from 65 in 1998 to 6 in 2007. The uncontrolled process fire target for 2008 is 5 or less (see Appendix III). 

In 1996, Jeff Lipton, CEO of NOVA Chemicals, set a goal for NOVA to reduce the number of uncontrolled process fires to zero as part of an effort to reduce the risk of a catastrophic process incident. From that point forward, process fire targets were routinely reviewed and made part of everyone s objectives—including Mr. 

NOVA Chemicals believes that the next big safety step the industry can take is to measure and publicly report loss of process containment and uncontrolled process fires. 

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