title: Use of failure rate databases and process safety performance measurements to improve process safety.
abstract: 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.
authors: Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, Chemical Engineering Department, Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX 77843-3574, USA.
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Keren
authors: H H
authors: HH
authors: West
authors: W J
authors: WJ
authors: Rogers
authors: J P
authors: JP
authors: Gupta
authors: M S
authors: MS
authors: Mannan
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D005544:Forecasting; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012449:Safety
chemical_list: D015386:Hazardous Substances