Protect highly hazardous processes with critical incident recorders

Chemical Engineering Progress

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 75-78

  Edwards, Victor H ^a   Clark, David G ^b  

^a Kvaemer Process/JBEK

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL INCIDENT RECORDER (CIR);

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DATA RECORDING; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; MANUFACTURING DATA PROCESSING;

CHEMICAL PLANTS;

EID: 0032662332     PISSN: 03607275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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