title: Practicing chemical process safety: a look at the layers of protection.
abstract: This presentation will review a few public perceptions of safety in chemical plants and refineries, and will compare these plant workplace risks to some of the more traditional occupations. The central theme of this paper is to provide a "within-the-fence" view of many of the process safety practices that world class plants perform to pro-actively protect people, property, profits as well as the environment. It behooves each chemical plant and refinery to have their story on an image-rich presentation to stress stewardship and process safety. Such a program can assure the company's employees and help convince the community that many layers of safety protection within our plants are effective, and protect all from harm.
authors.affiliation: PPG Industries, PO Box 1000, Lake Charles, LA 70601, USA. rsanders@ppg.com
authors.forename: Roy E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Sanders
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002617:Chemical Industry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004738:Engineering / Q000592:standards; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D006801:Humans; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D015386:Hazardous Substances