A review of the past, present and future of the European loss prevention and safety promotion in the process industries

A critical approach to safety equipment and emergency time evaluation based on actual information from the Bhopal gas tragedy

“…However, the effectiveness of this emergency response requires the evaluation of the intervention time suitable to induce a thermal excursion decay. It is clear that the earlier a disturbance is detected and recognized as a potentially hazardous precursor, the more effective Page 16 of 30 A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 15 possible recovery may be realized (De Rademaeker et al, 2014). Given the peculiar hazard of a thermo-reactive storage, additional measures can be implemented in connection with possible delay of water flow interruption.…”

Loss Prevention History and Developed Methods and Tools

“…A recent overview of the European activities was published by De Rademaeker et al 5 In the early 1970s, as we have seen from examples in previous chapters, the accident rate with explosions, fires, and toxic dispersion was higher than today and deemed by all parties to be unacceptable. In the United States (US), from the 1960s onwards there has been an annual Loss Prevention symposium under the aegis of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), while in Europe there is a triennial event organized by the Working Party on Loss Prevention (and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries) of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE), which organized its first symposium in 1974.…”

System theory based hazard analysis applied to the process industry

“…), and it has been proposed as a promising methodology for the process industry (De Rademaeker et al, 2014) although there are no published works on how it should be applied in this industry. In this paper a new approach is suggested to apply STPA to the chemical and oil & gas industries.…”