Think of the last thing you’d like to hear when at work: “Mr. Safety, I think we have a problem!” It is just after lunch, and this is how you are greeted by the operations supervisor who is now ...

Which subjects should be included in the curriculum of an undergraduate process control course, and which should not?

“I’m not really an HSE professional,” explained Shawn Hopkins, global behavior and culture safety leader at Procter and Gamble (P&G). “I’m really an engineer in an HSE leadership role.” On the literal ...

Over the past few decades, various control disciplines like process, batch, motion and discrete control have been consolidated into a single, common automation architecture. This integration has ...

Is it safer to work at or live near a chemical plant today than it was 20 years ago, before Bhopal? Maybe. "I can't say such an accident won't happen in the U.S., but it would be hard to occur," says ...