Sharing Incidents and Near Misses

We want to bring safety even more into focus at this year's seminar by drawing on your experiences. We invite you to share an incident or near miss and how you handled it.

A refiner at the 2003 seminar had the courage to talk about their $23 Million Coker Fire and give an evaluation of the incident, root cause analysis and lessons learned.  You can bet that all of us took those cautions home with us.

Here's from another fellow coker practitioner: "I would be glad to share an incident that happened in the last 24 mo at a Coker. I would like those that participate to consider not only 'incidents' but 'near misses'. Near misses are situations that got identified before an incident happened but would have led to an incident with just a slightly different set of circumstances or with a little more time. I'm interested in hearing about switching in to the wrong drum, mechanical failures from inadequate inspection or wrong material installed, situations where process conditions changed (temp, press, rate’s) that caused an incident over time, small fires, environmental releases.  These are as much value to us in the Coker as the recap on a big incident."

Bring an incident and share it? We're looking for just 5 to 10 minutes. You may prevent an injury or save a life!

You can make a difference!

Together we can improve Safety and Reliability!

"My Manager loved the idea.  He said sharing Best Practices (particularly Safety Best Practices) across the industry is the kind of thing our company wants and he will support."
-Glenda Robertson, Shell

These Refiners stepped forward at previous seminars to share their Lessons Learned:

ConocoPhillips
Unit shutdown from failing flange weld

Lyondell-Houston
Lesson learned from a major unit shutdown

ChevronTexaco
Dropped drill stem

Flint Hills Resources
Burn incident & prevention

Shell
Cooling a cokedrum from the top due to plugged inlet

Lyondell-Houston
Bottom head blow-outs

Frontier Refining
Cokedrum switch valve failure
Steam & Vapor exposure

ExxonMobil
Furnace Pigging Safety

Will you join them?

Tell us what you'd like to share.