Piping systems contribute to major accidents

The Safer Piping module instructs the viewers that piping systems typically represent 30 percent of total plant capital costs and that property insurance statistics claim that 40 percent of all major process plant losses are due to piping failures. This is worth repeating 40 percent of all major process plant losses are due to piping failures. 

all of these obvious technical pipeline considerations are sometimes overlooked, and many of the most infamous incidents have involved poor practices in piping design, in 

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