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Pepsi's global safety standard
Added: 21 May 2012
Chicago, Illinois – In the process industries, most people today operate in caring working environm…

Dutch bioprocess pilot facility opens for research
Added: 18 May 2012
CSM, Royal DSM and Delft University are participating in a joint venture for bioprocess research

Machine tool aids repairs in hazardous environments
Added: 18 May 2012
A miniature machine tool developed at Nottingham University could help improve power plant repairs

UK 'game' aids Saudi Arabia's largest steel maker
Added: 17 May 2012
Warrington, UK – Saudi Arabia’s largest steel manufacturer, Hadeed, is rolling out an intensive wor…

Turning a blind eye to workers' role in safety
Added: 14 May 2012
London – Plant operators and technicians are clearly on the frontline of things when it comes to pr…

Dounreay clean-up moves offshore
Added: 3 May 2012
Work to clean up radioactive contamination that leaked from Dounreay more than two decades ago is s…

US Macondo investigators on UK fact-finding mission
Added: 26 Apr 2012
Aberdeen, UK – Investigators from the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) have …

New safety training standard for oil & gas industry
Added: 18 Apr 2012
London – A new oil and gas industry training standard, designed to improve safety at offshore works…

INEOS boss: Process safety is everyone's business
Added: 17 Apr 2012
London – Process safety management (PSM) is “the make-or-break issue” for the process industries. a…

Lakeside energy-from-waste plant hires and 'fires'
Added: 16 Apr 2012
Slough, UK - Lakeside EFW has employed a mobile water treatment service to reduce maintenance downt…

BASF signs up Fluor as global engineering partner
Added: 6 Apr 2012
Houston, Texas – BASF has selected Fluor Corp. as its engineering partner for chemicals capital pro…

Keep a thermal imaging device in your maintenance toolkit.
Added: 5 Apr 2012
Manchester, UK – A thermal imaging device is an invaluable addition to any maintenance toolkit, acc…

HSE boss confronts sector over safety progress
Added: 3 Apr 2012
Only 65 out of 1000 high-risk sites signed up to safety management initiative

Glanbia improves safety of cleaning procedures at NI cheese plant
Added: 2 Apr 2012
Magheralin, UK – Glanbia Cheese has changed the isolation and lockout tagout procedures at its mozz…

ABB nets service contract at Sappi paper mill
Added: 27 Mar 2012
London – Sapppi has awarded ABB a five-year ‘maintenance improvement agreement’ to manage and impro…

Stop-start water cycle blocks technology flow
Added: 8 Mar 2012
London – ?After a slow start to the current Asset Management Plan - AMP5 (2010-15) - suppliers have…

EU proposals ‘threaten’ North?Sea safety
Added: 8 Mar 2012
London – ?European Commission proposals for offshore safety regulation are likely to damage, rather…

Contracts & Projects Tracker: February 2012
Added: 5 Mar 2012
Virtalis has designed and installed two virtual reality systems for the new Nuclear AMRC, which was…

Lubricant saves energy at German plastics plant
Added: 24 Feb 2012
Brussels – Ostendorf, one of Germany’s largest producers of plastics pipes and shaped products, has…

Data management key to oil & gas safety (Comment added)
Added: 21 Feb 2012
Aberdeen, UK – In the event of an offshore gas leak, or similar disaster, where internal emergency …