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Coastal Flooding
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Communication
Competence
Compressed Gas
Condensate
Configuration Control
Confirmation Bias
Containment
Contamination
Contractor
Control
Core
Cork
Corrosion
Corrosion Fatigue
Corrosion Under Insulation
CoW
Creeping Change
Criticality
DCS
Dead-leg
Dead-legs
Decomposition
Deepwater Horizon
Deethaniser
Design
Drain
Draining
Drill
Dust
Earthquake
EBV
Electricity Meters
Electrostatic
eMARS
Embrittlement
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HAZOP
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Holding In NOT Holding Up
Hot Spots
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Humber
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Ice
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Layout
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Legionella
Level
LFL
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LME
LOCA
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Loss of Utilities
LOTO
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Low Temperature Embrittlement
Macondo
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McKee
Mechanical Seals
Melt
Memorable
Mercury
Metal Fatigue
Methane
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MIC
Mile
Milford
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OECD
Olefin
OPA
Overfill
Overfill Protection
Overpressure
PCN
Permit
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PHA
Pharmachem
Pipe
Pipe Clamp
Piper
Planning
Pollution
Pool Fires
Positive Isolation
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Preparedness
Procedure
Process Interruptions
Products
Project Management
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PRV
PSM Hexagon
PSSR
PSV
PtW
Pump
PWR
QA
Quarters
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Railways
RBMK
Reactor
Reef
Regulator
Regulatory
Release Containment
Relief Systems
Remote
Richmond
Rig
Riser
Risk
Runaway
Rupture
Sabotage
Safe Operating Limits
Safety Critical Decisions
Safety Literacy
Scrubber
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Security
Services
Shift Handover
Silicon
Small Businesses
Smoke
Solution Providers
Splitter
Startup
Startup Operations
Static discharge
Storage Tanks
Stress Corrosion Cracking
Sugar
Tank
Tank Cleaning
Tank Jacking
Temporary
Testing
Texas
Thermal Expansion
Threaded Equipment
Time Pressures
Toxic
Trailer
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TSR
Tsunami
Tunnel
UAN
UPS
USGP
UVCE
Valdez
Valve
Vent
Vibration
Virtual
VLCC
Void
Washwater
Water Hammer
Water Tube Boilers
Well Control
Wentworth
Winterization
Worksite Checks
EVENT DETAILS may be textual or embedded media (e.g. video or podcast). Event images are included wherever available or appropriate. A thumbnail of the event image is included in the Event Header.
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Click on the RELATED EVENTS icon to view incidents or information related to the event. Relating past Incidents to current Information/Media is what distinguishes this knowledge source from other accident database as these relationships provide context to focus resources on the most appropriate corrective & preventive actions. Relationships work both ways i.e. from Incidents to Information and from Information to Incidents.
Incident times are not included – for specific details follow the LEARN MORE link.
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Taxonomy
Events are categorized to enable focus on specific topics of interest:
GENERAL
The following categories apply to Incidents & Information:
Key Learnings
Incidents & Information both lessons to be learned and all use the following categories as well as a general Process Safety Managementcategory to cover the overall topic:
These have been developed from established Process Safety Management (PSM) frameworks including Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), Energy Institute (EI), IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) and Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKOPSC) which are described here .
Industry
The type of Industry (e.g. Refining) which experienced the Incident or which the Event or Media is most relevant to.
Country
The country where the Incident occurred or where the Event is held or where the Media originated from.
Language
The language (using ISO 639-1 2-letter codes e.g. EN = English, ES = Español etc) in which the Incident, Event or Media is documented.
INCIDENTS
In order to provide a consistent language or dictionary for classifying Incidents , the following have been adopted:
LoC
The CCPS have published a list of the most common Loss of Containment (LoC) Causes which is listed here. These are summarised in the following categories:
DISCHARGE
Genuine release – e.g. process relief or dumping requirements
Component malfunction – maloperation of equipment in service, e.g., spurious relief valve operation or rupture disk failure, etc. Also includes control failure.
Operator error – e.g. drain or vent valve left open, misrouting of materials, tank overfilled, unit opened up under pressure, etc.
DEGRADATION
Deficiency – imperfections arising prior to commissioning and not detected before start-up (due to poor inspection or testing procedures)
Deterioration – imperfections due to equipment deterioration in service and not detected before the effect becomes significant (due to inadequate monitoring procedures in those cases where deterioration is gradual)
Maintenance error – imperfections arising from routine maintenance or minor modifications not carried out correctly, e.g., poor workmanship, wrong materials, etc.
DAMAGE
Impact – e.g. by cranes, road vehicles, excavators, machinery associated with the process, etc.
Confined explosion – accumulation and ignition of flammable mixtures arising from small process leaks, e.g., flammable gas build-up in analyzer houses, in enclosed drains, around submerged tanks, etc.
Structural settlement – geological or climatic factors or failure of structural supports due to corrosion, etc.
Transport – damage to tank trucks, rail cars, containers, etc., during transport of materials on- or off-site.
Fire exposure
Adjacent explosion – blast effects from a nearby explosion (unconfined vapor cloud explosion, bursting vessel, etc.), such as blast overpressure, projectiles, structural damage, etc.
Natural event – “acts of God” such as windstorms, earthquakes, floods, lightning, etc.
DEVIATION
Overpressure – connected pressure source, rising process temperature, internal explosion or inducted forces or stresses
Underpressure – equipment not capable of withstanding vacuum e.g. connected vacuum source, movement of liquids, cooling or dissolution of gases/vapours
Overtemperature – loss of strength e.g. fire or flame impingement, excessive heating or inadequate cooling
Undertemperature – cold embrittlement e.g. excessive cooling, inadequate heating or depressurisation
Material incompatibility – wrong process materials or abnormal impurities (causing accelerated corrosion, chemical attack of seals or gaskets, stress corrosion cracking, embrittlement, etc.)
Incident
The type of Incident (e.g. Jet Fire) from the Accident Description categories in the EU eMars database.
Hazard
The hazards of the materials (e.g. Flammable) processed during the incident according to the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)
Cause
The dominant or immediate Cause (e.g. Operator Error) from the Causes Description categories short-listed in the EU eMars database.
Impact
The type of effects (e.g. On site Fatalities) from the Consequences Description categories in the EU eMars database. Only the primary (dominant) effects are recorded however where these were not realised the potential impacts are noted (e.g. On site
Consequences
The primary Safety (e.g. 1-10 Fatalities) or Environmental (e.g. Water Release) effects of the incident. This category provides scale to the Consequences categorized above and is colour coded as follows:
> 100 FATALITIES
11 – 100 FATALITIES
1 – 10 FATALITIES
≥ 100 INJURIES
< 100 INJURIES
ENVIRONMENT IMPACT
Equipment
The type of equipment (e.g. Pipeline) where the incident occurred.
Activity
The activity (e.g. Startup) being performed when the incident occurred.
Material
The chemicals (e.g. Propane) released during or involved in the incident.
SPECIFIC
The following categories are specific:
Media
The type of Media e.g. Video, Podcast etc
Topic
The topic, subject or theme of the Event or Media e.g. Cyber Security etc
TAGS
Events may include tags (or keywords) to organize and draw attention to the content.
Information
Information or Media events are listed in descending order i.e. most recent first by default.
Media which relates to Alerts are highlighted in red to focus attention on potentially urgent information.
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