Forecast for process safety in the 21st century

摘要

The 20th century was a time of great technological change. Such changes that have forever altered how we live and work. The 1970s brought die creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Agency. The 1980s witnessed one of the greatest tragedies in the last century- an estimated 4,000 people died in the 1984 Bhopal accident. Following Bhopal, we saw the birtli and development of the field of Process Safety Management. Since then, the process safety community has evolved in its approaches and methodologies to manage risks. But what have we, as process safety professionals, learned from the experiences of the 20th century, and how can we use that learning to make the process industry safer in the 21st Century?