Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center

Sam Mannan of Mary Kay O Connor Process Safety Center,... 

Arendt, J. S., and W. L. Frank (2000). "Improving Industry-Wide Reactive Chemical Hazard Management." 2000 Mary Kay O Connor Process Safety Center Symposium Proceedings Beyond Regulatory Compliance, Making Safety Second Nature, October 24-25, 2000, College Station, TX Mary Kay O Connor Process Safety Center. 

Proceedings, Beyond Regulatory Compliance, Making Safety Second Nature, Mary Kay O Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A M University, October 2001. 

The Mary Kay O Connor Process Safety Center is conducting a number of projects on Development of Accident History Databases, Analyses of Accident History Databases, and Risk Assessment Based on Accident History Databases. One such project involves the compilation of incidents from various sources. 

Nir Keren, an experienced plant engineer and talented graduate student at the Mary Kay O Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A M, took on a benchmarking study to compare MOC practices. He developed a questionnaire and distributed it to more than 50 chemical and petrol chemical industries, refineries, and gas plants. There were responses from 26 facilities. The survey asked about 25 probing questions. His comprehensive paper was presented at a Mary Kay O Connor Process Safety Center Symposium in October 2001 and later published by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. [9]... 

The Mary Kay O Connor Process Safety Center survey is the only comprehensive review that I have seen. I have taken the following quotes from the second to last paragraph of this review. 

Marshal, Michael, Using Incident Investigations as a Program Assessment Tool, paper presented at the 1st Annual Symposium of the Mary Kay O Connor Process Safety Center, College Station, Texas, March 1998. Available via Internet until March 1999 as http //processsafety.tamu.edu/Technical/useof.htm ... 

The Mary Kay O Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A M University in College Station is an international leader in process safety and is increasing in stature each year. The center has a rich source of process safety information as well as documented case histories, a schedule of upcoming courses, information about upcoming and previous symposia, and links to other helpful information. The Centers web address is http //process-safety.tamu.edu. 

I am grateful for the additional material that appears in this third edition courtesy of David Chung of the US Environmental Protection Agency, from Douglas S. Giles and Peter N. Lodal of Eastman Chemical Company, from Dr. Trevor A. Kletz, from Nir Keren of the Mary Kay O Connor Process Safety Center, from Catherine Vickers of PPG and countless others who are referenced throughout the text. I was also lucky to get talented drafting help from Manuel David. Manuel created easy-to-understand illustrations to support the narratives of the incidents. 

A preliminaiy technical report on the West Fertihzer Explosion was shared in October 2014 at the 17th Annnal Symposium of the Mary Kay O Connor Process Safety Center. Scott Davis presented a paper entitled Initial Investigative Facts in the West Fertilizer Explosion [29]. ... 

Broadribb MP. 3 years From Texas City, 2008 Proceedings, Mary Kay O Connor process safety center, international symposium, beyond regulatory compliance Making safety second nature. College Station, Texas 2008. p. 197-209. 

Scott Davis and Claudio Marsegan. Initial investigative facts in the West Fertilizer Explosion. Proceedings of the Mary Kay O Connor process safety center - 17th annual international symposium. College Station, Texas. Oct 2014. p. 411 32. 

Valdes OR. Amuay refinery deadly explosion, Mary Kay O Connor Process safety center, graduate student presentation to the technical advisory committee, Oct 30,2014. 

Bearrow M. Best practice management of change and PSSR process. In Proceedings of the 2013 Mary Kay O Connor process safety center s sixteenth annual international symposium College Station, TX. October 2013, p. 301-12. 

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