Session: Know Thine Hazards and Know Yourself: The Art of Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis

In “The Art of War” Sun Tzu discusses the importance of understanding your adversary and your own capabilities as key features in developing successful military strategy. This wisdom is often extended beyond military settings where understanding the strengths and weaknesses of both sides of an issue can help provide valuable insights. In the parlance of process safety, Understand Hazards and Risk is one of the four pillars in CCPS’s Risk Based Process Safety framework. This session seeks papers that address understanding and analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of process hazard identification and risk analysis. Relevant topics include best practices or sharing of key lessons learned in process hazard analysis techniques (PHA, QRA, HAZOP, LOPA), and process hazard knowledge management.