Sunday, December 30, 2007

Flameproof failure and Disasters




NOTE (for India)
After delivery to site, the flameproofness of the enclosure cannot be verified (after the electrical circuitry is assembled in the enclosure by the manufacturer)
So some manufacturers will issue a fake TC testifying to 100% hydraulic testing
Many manufacturers do not have the infrastructure for 100% hydraulic testing. Also if tested the enclosure may not withstand the test (low wall thickness and bad design)
Today in India, there is no effective statutory and regulatory authority.
ISI Marking and ISO 9001 certification is not mandatory
The only requirement is successful testing of the prototype (one time)
The manufacturers may then manufacture with lower wall thickness to save on matl costs
With the L1 system of awarding contracts, even the reputed manufacturers are forced to compromise.
So now these defective products are probably installed in coal mines, ordinance depots, BARC, Satellite launching stations, refineries, oil rigs, etc.

Book Description

It is by avoiding accidents that the process industries will improve their public image. Lessons from Disaster focuses upon the apparent inability of organizations to learn, and retain in long-term, the lessons drawn from accidents.Incidents of a similar type continue to occur within companies repeatedly.

Trevor Kletz illustrates this with detailed cases, which form a gold mine of experience and advice for every engineer. He offers, with his customary vision and imagination, his own advice on how to improve the corporate memory.

About the Author

Trevor Kletz, OBE, D.Sc., F.Eng., a process safety consultant, has published more than a hundred papers and nine books on loss prevention and process safety, including most recently Lessons From Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur and Computer Control and Human Error. His experience includes thirty-eight years with Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., where he served as a production manager and safety adviser in the petrochemical division, and membership in the department of chemical engineering at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, England. He is currently senior visiting research fellow at Loughborough University and an officer of the Order of the British Empire.

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