Process Safety Beacon Archives
The Process Safety Beacons Archive includes all past Beacons and is available to everyone to download and share. Reproduction for non-commercial, educational purposes is encouraged. However, reproduction for any commercial purpose without express written consent of AIChE is strictly prohibited.
December, 2024 - Stored chemicals are still hazardous
- Arabic
- Balochi
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Czech
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- Farsi
- Finnish
- French (Canada)
- German
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- Hindi
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- Indonesia
- Italian
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- Macedonian
- Marathi
- Mongolian
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- Portuguese (Brazil)
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- Swedish
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
January, 2024 - An error trap leads to a catastrophe
- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French (Canada)
- French (France)
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
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- Hungarian
- Italian
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- Mongolian
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- Urdu
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September, 2022 - Lightning Strikes – YIKES!!
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- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Farsi
- Filipino
- French (Canada)
- French (France)
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
- Mongolian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Romanian
- Russian
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- Swedish
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
August, 2021 - Explosion of a tank containing “mostly water”
- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Farsi
- French (Canada)
- French (France)
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
- Marathi
- Mongolian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Romanian
- Russian
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- Swedish
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
May, 2021 - Valve position errors can cause serious incidents
- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- Catalan
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Farsi
- French (Canada)
- French (France)
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
- Mongolian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Romanian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
January, 2021 - Material Identification - The first link in the process safety system
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- Arabic
- Catalan
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Farsi
- French (Canada)
- French (France)
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
- Mongolian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
November, 2018 - Accumulation of small changes leads to an explosion
- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- Catalan
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Czech
- Dutch
- English
- Filipino
- French (Canada)
- French (France)
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
- Marathi
- Mongolian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Romanian
- Spanish
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Vietnamese