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.
August, 2024 - Corrosion – another hidden threat
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June, 2022 - Some mistakes take time to become incidents
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February, 2022 - Piping Dead Legs – Another hazard in plain sight!
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- Vietnamese
November, 2020 - Not all vibrations in process equipment are good vibrations
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- French (Canada)
- French (France)
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- Gujarati
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- Telugu
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- Turkish
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
July, 2019 - Small leak leads to catastrophic failure
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- Chinese (Simplified)
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- Farsi
- Filipino
- French (Canada)
- French (France)
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- Portuguese (Brazil)
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- Swedish
- Tamil
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- Turkish
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
June, 2019 - Corrosion under insulation
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- French (Canada)
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- Urdu
- Vietnamese
May, 2018 - Aging Process Facilities and Infrastructure
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- Telugu
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- Urdu
February, 2018 - Runaway Reactions Caused by Contamination
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- Marathi
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- Portuguese (Brazil)
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- Telugu
- Thai
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
June, 2017 - Incident Investigation of a Steam Pipe Failure
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- Filipino
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- French (France)
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- Indonesia
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- Portuguese (Brazil)
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- Swedish
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
May, 2017 - Corroded Tanks
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- Catalan
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- Filipino
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- French (France)
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- Greek
- Gujarati
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- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesia
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
- Marathi
- Mongolian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish