Process safety is about understanding hazards and risk, managing risk by providing the appropriate layers of protection to reduce the frequency and severity of incidents, and learning from incidents ...

The memorial for the Bhopal Gas Disaster is situated near the site of the Union Carbide Corp. factory, which on Dec. 2, 1984, was the site of a massive release of toxic chemicals, including methyl ...

The author describes why statistical significance would impose an unreasonable burden on manufacturers. Validation has been practiced within the global healthcare industry since the early 1970s. While ...

We propose an approach for the modeling, monitoring and control of operational risk in financial institutions based on a methodology that integrates business process modeling with statistical and ...

OCCUPATIONAL health and safety professionals understand the importance of effective risk management. This understanding, combined with the ability to implement risk mitigation strategies and tactics, ...

Process designs and control strategies can be improved by adopting a risk-based approach to product quality. The author describes how this approach can be applied to spray-drying operations. Taking a ...

Admiral William Gortney, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Northern Command, was recently discussing the threat posed by advanced Russian long-range conventional ...

LAST week we explored the minimum capital requirements under Pillar 1 of Basel III. This week, we will focus on the firm-wide risk management process and the role of supervisors, under Pillar 2, to ...

We propose an approach for the modeling, monitoring and control of operational risk in financial institutions based on a methodology that integrates business process modeling with statistical and ...