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Sharing Incidents and Near MissesWe want to bring safety even more into
focus at this year's seminar by drawing on your experiences.
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
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! |
"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." These Refiners stepped forward at previous seminars to share their Lessons Learned: ConocoPhillips Lyondell-Houston ChevronTexaco Flint Hills Resources Shell Lyondell-Houston Frontier Refining ExxonMobil Will you join them? Tell us what you'd like to share, using the presenter's registration. |
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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."
