Written on February 1, 2013 at 6:30 am, by Clyde Young and Keith Hodges
What is Mentoring? In this Tip of the Month, we explore how process safety competency can be enhanced through mentoring programs. This TOTM is the paper that was developed by JMC Instructor/Consultants Clyde Young and Keith Hodges presentation at the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) 8th Global Conference on Process Safety in April, 2012. Continue Reading
Written on October 1, 2012 at 8:46 am, by Perry Lovelace
OSHA mentions “near-misses” as recordable requirements in several passages as: “An unplanned and unforeseeable event that could have resulted, but did not result, in human injury, damage to property or the environment or other form of loss”. And we know that all industrial maintenance organizations have a history of reactive, run-to-failure-then-run-to fix, maintenance management behaviors. Continue Reading
Written on September 1, 2011 at 6:00 am, by Clyde Young
In the April, 2011, Tip of the Month (TOTM), we looked at a simple, graphical representation of process safety competency. This TOTM will follow up on that by asking a simple question: “When examining catastrophic incidents, what are the typical mistakes that engineers make?” This question was asked of me at a lunch and learnContinue Reading
Written on April 1, 2011 at 8:00 am, by Clyde Young
In this Tip of the Month, we explore how process safety competency can be identified and developed using a simple model for guidance. This TOTM is the paper that was developed by JMC Instructor/Consultant Clyde Young for a poster presentation at the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) 7th Global Congress on Process Safety inContinue Reading
Written on April 1, 2010 at 5:06 pm, by Clyde Young
In this Tip of the Month, we look at how to deal with some of the challenges of managing process safety. This TOTM is an excerpt of a paper presented by JMC Instructor/Consultant, Clyde Young at the 2008 Mary K. O’Connor Process Safety Symposium. This TOTM continues where the February 2009, TOTM left off. When thereContinue Reading
Written on November 1, 2009 at 3:47 pm, by Clyde Young
In this Tip of the Month, we look at how to deal with some of the challenges of managing process safety. This TOTM is an excerpt of a paper presented by JMC Instructor/Consultant, Clyde Young at the 2008 Mary K. O’Connor Process Safety Symposium. This TOTM continues where the February 2009, TOTM left off. Processes areContinue Reading
Written on February 1, 2009 at 9:20 pm, by Clyde Young
In this Tip of the Month, we look at how to deal with some of the challenges of managing process safety. This TOTM is an excerpt of a paper presented by JMC Instructor/Consultant, Clyde Young at the 2008 Mary K. O’Connor Process Safety Symposium. “Process safety practices and formal safety management systems have been in placeContinue Reading
Written on April 1, 2008 at 5:12 pm, by Clyde Young
March 23, marked the three year anniversary of the BP Texas City refinery explosion. The United States Chemical Safety Board (CSB) recently released a detailed video of the event. The video, Anatomy of a Disaster, provides an in depth look at the incident. Among other issues discussed, the CSB video shows what can happen when aContinue Reading
Written on May 1, 2007 at 9:56 pm, by Clyde Young
In this Tip of the Month we will focus on HSE (Health, Safety, and Environment) issues, specifically on “Process Safety” in the Oil and Gas Industry. Anyone working in the oil and gas industry during the last several years has probably been affected by or at the very least, heard about the “big crew change”.Continue Reading
