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3 Review and Assessment of Process Safety Incidents at Other Chemical Demilitarization Sites
Pages 23-25

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... Although none of in this chapter: the other chemical agent disposal facilities employed formal process safety metrics, the committee believed • tandard operating procedure (SOP) deficiencies S that an analysis of chemical events that occurred at refer to nonexistent SOPs, inadequate SOPs, or those sites could provide insights into those process SOPs being circumvented or ignored as a routine steps that are most subject to failure and might iden- operating practice.
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... 2001 This committee requested an update on process- Number of Time a Causal Percentage of related chemical events from all operating sites and Factor Was Instances of the two sites that completed destruction since the Causal Factor Identified Causal Factors end of 2001. In all, 147 events were reported to the SOP deficiencies 31 27.4 committee,3 of which 26 were reviewed by the chemi Equipment malfunction 29 25.7 cal events committee in 2002.
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... 2002. Evaluation of Chemical Events at Army Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities.
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