Industry Lessons

Questions for Critical Analysis of Accident Case Studies 

What are the synergies or similarities between the reference case and your own operation  

Are there similar chemicals used at your facility  

Do you have similar processes or equipment at your facility  

How does your site layout and infrastructure compare to that of the reference case  

---

A.W. van der Widen, Acceptable Risk Assessments by Industry Lessons from Experience and Challenge for Future, 23rd Annual Chemical Control Conference - The EU Draft Chemical Control Regulations, Charles Simeons Conferences, London, UK, 2002. 

Cleland G, Sujan M, HabU I, Medhurst J. Using safety cases in industry and healthcare. A pragmatic review of the use of safety cases in safety-critical industries - lessons and prerequisites for their application in healthcare. The Health Eoundation. London, UK 2012. 

Kharbanda, O.P. and Stallworthy, E.A. (eds) (1988) Safety in the Chemical Industry Lessons From Major Disasters, Heinemann Professional Publishing, London. ISBN 0-434-910198. 

AR155 Managing human resources in the nuclear power industry Lessons learned. No. 1364, 17 July 2003. 

Keaton, J.R. Roth Jr, R.J. 2008. Mapping landslides for the insurance industry-lessons from earthquakes. In EuroEnGeo 2008, II European Conference of International Association for Engineering Geology, Madrid CD-ROM Proceedings 6. 

Zuo, J. (2008). Project culture in the Australian construction industry Lessons for China. PhD thesis. University of South Australia, Department of Natural and Built Environments. 

Seaton, A., Hazards to health in the shale oil industry Lessons from Scotland, Proceedings of the 4th Annual RMCOEH Occupational and Environmental Health Conference, 1983, pp. 437-442. 

Egbu, C, B Young and V Torrance (1996) Refurbishment management practices in the shipping and construction industries - lessons to be learned. Building Research and Information vol 24 no 6 pp 329-338. 

Japanese industrial success owes much to Japanese management techniques, which we in the West neglect at our peril. The lessons are set out in this important book. 

A new approach of partnership between client and inspection service organisations has been established primarily for the North Sea but increasingly finding application elsewhere Benefits accrue to all parties and the technical and commercial lessons learnt in the process have relevance to a wide range of other industries. 

Nicholson, C. E., Heyes, P. F. and Wilson, C. 1993 Common Lessons to be Learned from the Investigations of Failures in a Broad Range of Industries. In Rossmanith, H. P. (ed.). Structural Eailure, Product Liability and Technical Insurance. Elsevier. 

The DOE and private industry have learned many lessons from years of experienee in site remediation. This book will refer to seleeted lessons learned from the DOE, the Army Corps of Engineers, private industry, and personal experienee. After reading this book the reader should have a better understanding of how to interpret the hazardous waste requirements to make sure eomplianee is maintained at a high level for eaeh site-speeifie aetivity. Over and above eomplianee, the authors eneourage the development of health and safety programs to help build a sound and workable safety eulture that ean be utilized aeross all boundaries. 

Tlie DOE Office of Environmental Safety and Health distributes monthly summaries ba.scd on data retreived from the DOE Occurrence Reporting and Processing System (ORPS) to share chemical safety concerns throughout the industry to alert operators of similar processes. In addition quarterly and annual reviews feature lessons learned from ORPS by trending analyses of ini an... 

Rudyard Kipling wrote, What do they know of England who only England know In the same way, what do we know about process safety if we knov/ nothing about accidents in other industries Here are some shipping accidents with lessons for the process industries. 

The purpose here is to show what has gone wrong in the past and to suggest how similar incidents might be prevented in the future. Unfortunately, the history of the process industries shows that many incidents are repeated after a lapse of a few years. People move on, and the lessons are forgotten. This book will help keep the memories alive. 

The primary lesson from this example is that no process is infinitely scalable. Sooner or later, additional scaleup becomes impossible, and further increases in production cannot be single-train but must add units in parallel. Fortunately for the economics of the chemical industry, the limit is seldom reached. 

For an industry sector of your choice (not chemistry related) describe the environmental impact it has had in the last 25 years and discuss some of the initiatives being taken to make it more sustainable. What lessons can chemistry-based industries learn from this ... 

LESSON 6. THE WIDESPREAD USE OF PESTICIDES IS PRIMARILY DETERMINED NOT BY AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, THE FISHING INDUSTRY, OR MEDICINE, BUT BY THE INTERESTS OF THE CHEMICAL COMPANIES THAT PRODUCE THEM. 

Lees (Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 2d ed., Butter-worths, London, 1996), BP (Hazards of Trapped Pressure and Vacuum, 2003), and Kletz (What Went Wrong —Case Histories of Process Plant Disaster, Gulf Publishing Company, 1989) include additional case histories providing valuable lessons about how equipment failures and human errors can combine to inflict vacuum damage. 

Information related to broader industry issues, newly recognized hazards, and lessons learned from near misses and actual incidents can also be shared with customers and users as part of product stewardship. Trade, professional, and other cooperative organizations such as universities and local emergency planning committees (LEPCs) can be effective vehicles for information sharing, in addition to individual company initiatives. 

Schuster, B. (2002). "The Chemical Industry and Toulouse Lessons After Bhopal." Chemical Engineering Progress 98, 1 (January), 44-45. 

CSB searched over 40 data sources for incidents that met its definition of a reactive incident (Section 2.1). The data search focused on recent incidents (since 1980) where the primary cause was related to chemical reactivity however, the 1980 cutoff is not intended to diminish the important lessons learned from prior incidents. The search covered both chemical manufacturing (i.e., raw material storage, chemical processing, and product storage) and other industrial activities involving bulk chemicals, such as... 

It is difficult to identify causes and lessons learned in existing sources of process safety incident data because industry associations, government agencies, and academia generally do not collect this information. 

PSCMS is primarily designed as a metric for tracking industry performance on process safety incidents it is not intended to be a lessons-learned database. However, if expanded to include causes and lessons learned and if more widely distributed, the data could be useful in preventing similar incidents. 

The company recognizes the need for better and more formal sharing of lessons learned and for support of an improved industry incident database. 

---