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New risk acceptance criteria for process safety
Author(s) -
Moseman James
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
process safety progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1547-5913
pISSN - 1066-8527
DOI - 10.1002/prs.10392
Subject(s) - risk analysis (engineering) , process safety , process (computing) , business , actuarial science , forensic engineering , engineering , environmental health , operations management , computer science , work in process , medicine , operating system
Abstract A new risk acceptable criteria (RAC) is derived and compared to those previously reported. The derived RAC is based on previously published industrial and social mortality rates. The derived RAC in this article include acceptable risks (1 × 10 −7 ), where no actions are recommended, compared to unacceptable or marginally acceptable levels (1 × 10 −5 ), where mitigation actions are recommended. Justifications for these results are included. © 2011 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog, 2012