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HazardEx, June 2011
By Kenny Mitchell, Dron & Dickson
When it comes to the repair, inspection and maintenance of electrical equipment there are few environments where strict adherence to the correct processes and procedures is more crucial than on an offshore petrochemical asset.

South Africa Instrumentation & Control, July 2011
By Gavin Halse, ApplyIT
Can risk assessment predict if you will have an accident today?

Oil & Gas Engineer, July 2011
Evolving health and safety regulations are prompting a broad range of new initiatives within the industry, including a subsea well incident response project, novel landing string assemblies, and new guidelines to make offshore support vessels safer.

Control Engineering Europe, June 2010
Safety system integrator Hima-Sella provided 20 programmable electronic systems to protect valve stations along the 250km long Wilton-Grangemouth ethylene pipeline owned by SABIC UK Petrochemicals.

Oil & Gas Engineer, July 2011
By Glen Robertson
Many organisations within the O&G sector identify intervening as a key part of their behavior-based safety system. Some also recognize that people need to be actively encouraged and supported to intervene through initiatives.

Power-Technology.com, July 2011
In the last few months, the nuclear crisis in Japan led to safety concerns over this electrical resource, causing Germany, Switzerland and Italy to scrap plans for new reactors. The UK, which relies on nuclear for 18% of its energy supply, however, has not followed suit.

Invensys will provide comprehensive automation solutions and services to help drive control, environment and safety at TNK-BP’s Saratov oil refinery in western Russia.

Two-piece measuring light curtain sensors provide high-speed, precise monitoring for inspection, profiling and web-guiding applications.

By FLIR
FLIR’s Bulk Material Combustion Warning Systems use an infrared camera to generate a thermographic image of the area being monitored. This clearly shows hot spots on a remote video or PC monitor in real time and triggers an alarm. Here’s how these systems can be designed and used.

Automation.com, August 2011
By Eric Byres
This tale doesn’t have princes or frogs in it, but instead it deals with SCADA and industrial control system security. It is the myth of the "air gap" between control systems and the rest of the world. Believing in it leads to a false sense of complacency by both end users and vendors, making it a very dangerous fairy tale indeed.