A stark reminder of the critical importance of robust Process Safety Management (PSM) comes from a fatal accident at a...

In high-consequence industries like oil and gas, chemical manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals, catastrophic failures rarely happen due to a single catastrophic...

India’s industrial economy is expanding fast — but the safety data tell a story that every plant owner, EHS head,...

For decades, Indian workplace safety regulation ran on a patchwork of 13 separate laws — the Factories Act, the Mines...

How RISCON Delivers Defensible QRA Outputs Dispersion modelling for toxic gas releases determines how far a hazardous cloud travels, at...

Most conversations about industrial safety in India eventually arrive at the same uncomfortable fact: the country doesn’t have a shortage...

At approximately 11:00 a.m. on May 11, 2003, Employee #1 was transferring a waste liquid from a 5 ft portable...

Fatal gas leak at Pittsburgh-area power plant draws OSHA fines Here is a scannable, blog-ready summary of the incident based...

The Incident: At a chemical manufacturing plant, a 5,000-gallon nitric acid storage vessel experienced a sudden loss of chilled utility...

The Incident: An industrial solids processing facility suffered a massive secondary dust explosion that destroyed two adjacent packing blocks. The...

The Incident: During an operational push at a regional gas fractionation plant, an automated safety-instrumented system (SIS) continuously tripped a...

The Context An operating team at an oil refinery noticed that a cooling water line feeding a highly exothermic reactor...

The Scenario: During a greenfield expansion project for a gas processing terminal, a qualitative HAZOP was conducted on a new...

The Scenario: An import facility features a large, double-walled Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) storage tank. During a HAZOP review of...

The Scenario: A fertilizer plant utilizes an on-site rail tanker unloading station for anhydrous ammonia. Ammonia is highly toxic, with...

Degraded alarms still require attention During a scheduled maintenance turnaround at a petrochemical facility, a critical level transmitter on a...

Incident A reactor vessel in a specialty chemical plant was shut down for internal inspection. Following standard operating procedures, the...

Incident: An outdoor long-distance transfer pipeline carrying liquid benzene was isolated at both ends via block valves for a weekend...