Category Archives: Health Safety Environment
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Safety Instrumented Systems
Safety in a plant is provided by layers of protection. The diagram from Emerson SIS Course shows the Safety Instrumented System (SIS) as the “safety layer” providing the final preventive layer before the mitigation layers must engage. Typically, safety instrumented systems (commonly known … Continue reading
Deepwater Horizon
The Deepwater Horizon accident resulted in 11 deaths and 700,000 T of crude oil dumped into the Gulf of Mexico causing the largest environmental disaster in United States history. We discuss briefly some of the most significant Technical, Organizational, Regulatory … Continue reading
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Two LRCM purposes
One of LRCM’s purposes is to guarantee high quality information from the CMMS with which to perform Reliability Analysis (RA). Systematic improvement of maintenance performance comes mainly from RA. RA analyzes and models the factors influencing failure in order to develop … Continue reading