The EPSC Learning Sheets are meant to stimulate discussion on important process safety topics at operational sites, to improve competency & awareness in a pleasant format. EPSC facilitates its members to evolve from a sharing organisation to a learning organisation. The Sheets are available in various different languages. Please share the Learning Sheets widely in your organisation, feel free to provide feedback or mention a topic for a next Learning Sheet.

EPSC Learning Sheets are also available in Toolbox. Toolbox is a progressive web-app currently hosted by the Energy Institute. Toolbox contains lessons learned from incidents, videos, and other resources, which are freely accessible by the public. The purpose of Toolbox is primarily to help those working in industry to avoid incidents by providing a platform for industry to share learning resources.

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2023: All Learning Sheets on the topics:

• Wrong Location
• Furnace Fire
• Chlorine Leakage
• Argon Aspyxiation

2022: All Learning Sheets on the topics (43 - 52):

• Hydrogen Embrittlement
• LNG explosion
• Visbreaker fire
• Fatigue crack
• Last line of defense - Safety system not working
• Asphyxiation - Inspector fainted
• Bursted Flame Arrestor
• Explosion in a tank
• Throttled Valve
• Hose Rupture

2021: All Learning Sheets on the topics (33 - 42):

• High reactor pressure
• Utility Connection / Rocketed Tank
• Exploded Reactor (re-issued)
• Unplugging
• Splash Loading
• Furnace Explosion
• Flash Fire
• Hydrogen Vents
• Fire in a pipeline trench
  
• Methanol tank overfill

2020: All Learning Sheets on the topics (23- 32):

• Plugging Heat Exchanger Tubes
• Unloading Powders
• Ammonium Nitrate
• Styrene Storage Tank
• Gas holder leakage
• Polymerised pipe
• Chattering PSV
• Work at wrong location
• Fatigue stress cracking
• Tank boil over
  

2019: All Learning Sheets on the topics (13-22):

• Chernobyl
• Furnace Explosion
• Crude Spill in a tank pit
• Carbon Dioxide Intoxication
• H2S explosion in sulphur tank
• Imploded storage tank
• Release from flare system
• Incident at pressure leak test
• Storage of packed chemicals
• HPW cleaning

2018: All Learning Sheets on the topics (4-12):

• Collapsed Railway Car
• Flashing Hydrocarbons
• Sunken Roof in Storage Tank
• Steam Exposure / Hazards of special operational line-ups
• Chloride Stress Cracking
• Run Away in a storage tank
• Barge Hold Explosion
• Storage Tank Fire
• Furnace Fire

2017: All Learning Sheets on the topics (1-3):

• Steam Release
• Condensate Explosion
• Leaking Flange