On April 20th 2010 the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) floating drilling rig suffered a catastrophic explosion and fire. Following DWH the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulations and Enforcement (BOEMRE) issued many regulations. One of them is the Safety and Environmental System (SEMS) rule. This boo[...]
Considerable progress to do with process safety has been made in the 15 years since the early 1990s, particularly with respect to regulatory compliance. Many companies are now looking to go beyond mere regulatory compliance and to expand their process safety management (PSM) programs to increase per[...]