Use of failure rate databases and process safety performance measurements to improve process safety.
Employing equipment reliability databases can generate a process of continual improvement. This paper suggests a methodology that uses equipment reliability databases, and a process of benchmarking to establish a continual improvement procedure by learning "how others are doing it". A simple decision-making procedure is suggested too, to assist in prioritizing the processes/equipment that are considered to be improved as well as a methodology to measure the improvement.
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Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, Chemical Engineering Department, Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX 77843-3574, USA.
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D016208:Databases, Factual; D005544:Forecasting; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012449:Safety
D015386:Hazardous Substances