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Safety and risk insights on consumer products and processes

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The objective of this blog is to provide readers with risk analysis insights in various industrial sectors - consumer products, health sciences, financial, medical devices, chemical processing, energy.

• Added on: May 11th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: sanjeev saraf
• Listed in: Technology Science
• Tags: safety fire litigation Lithium Batteries explosion risk analysis

Recent Posts

• History Repeats Itself: Buncefield, Puerto Rico, Jaipur

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 23:51 in buncefield, iocl, chemical accidents, incident investigation, fires and explosions, puerto rico fire, jaipur fire, caribbean petroleum corporation, iocl fire, oil depot fire, san juan fire

  In December 2005, fire and explosion at Buncefield oil storage depot injured 40 people. Overfilling of a fuel storage tank (Tank 912) led to release of unleaded gasoline (petrol) which formed a cloud of flammable vapor that subsequently ignited.  P...

• Terrorism Risk Insurance Act Exclusions: Gray Coverage Areas

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 08:25 in insurance, Security, chemical, 9 11, biological, radiological, terrorism risk insurance act, tria, terror threats, terrorism risk, terrorism risk insurance, and nuclear (cbrn) terrorist attacks

  The U.S. Government has extended the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) to 2014. TRIA is intended to support insurance companies in case the claims from a terror incident go above a certain threshold. What is interesting are the exclusions used by t...

• A Proposed Classification for Reactive Chemicals

  Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 14:18 in explosion, process safety, chemical accidents, reactive chemicals, incompatible chemicals, overpressure, reactive chemical list, water reactive

  The reactivity of a chemical or a mixture is normally assessed by thermal analysis. Thus the thermal analysis data forms the basis of risk mitigation decisions. What does the thermal analysis data tell us and how to base risk mitigation decisions? Ho...

• Preventing Pipeline Ruptures

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 14:18 in lng, fbr, natural gas pipelines, natural gas pipeline, failure data, fires and explosion, full bore rupture, loss of containment, ng pipeline failure database, ignition probabilities

  The major cause of natural gas pipeline rupture is not corrosion or material defect but external damage. External damage is the damage to pipeline during digging, pilling, ground work, etc. by heavy equipment such as anchor, bulldozer, excavator, or ...

• Industrial Safety in Slumdog Millionaire Nation

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 09:39 in india, regulations, developing nations, industrial safety, process safety, chemical accidents, accidents in india, india process safety, safety in china

  According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), there were 11 deaths every 100,000 workers in India in 2005. This number was two in the US and 0.01 in Japan. What is scary is that the number of fatalities may be significantly underestimated ...

• Group Additivity Approach for Estimating Reactive Hazards

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 14:06 in explosion, process safety, chemical accidents, reactive chemicals, incompatible chemicals, overpressure, reactive chemical list, water reactive

  During process development or plant operation it is often necessary to estimate energy of reaction based on chemical formulae representation alone. This heat of decomposition represents the potential energy that can be released and is therefore a mea...

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