What to Know About Batteries and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Hazards for Safe Low Carbon Energy Transition

Upcoming webinar: “What to Know About Batteries and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Hazards for Safe Sustainable Energy Transitions and Initiatives”   Click here to watch the webinar and download the slides Thursday, August 18, 2022 @ 11:00 AM CT   Moorabool BESS Fire, July 2021 Batteries and BESS are critical elements of the sustainable…

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Summer Newsletter: BakerRisk presents six papers at the 2022 AIChE Spring Meeting and 18th Global Congress on Process Safety and provides testing demonstrations for over 100 guests

BakerRisk presented six papers for the 2022 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Spring Meeting and 18th Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS). Each year this conference draws in process safety professionals from around the world to discuss industry needs and lessons learned with the goal to advance process safety initiatives in industry. Click on…

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BakerRisk Presenting at the 2022 Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Seminar and Industry Trade Show

Our team will be presenting the following topics at the Texas/Louisiana EHS Seminar, June 9, 2022. Visit the conference website for more information: Conference Info Presenting “Facility Siting for Temporary Structures” Thursday, June 9, 2022, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT Jodi Kostecki Thomas Mander Since the 2005 Texas City Refinery explosion, updates to facility…

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 What to Know about Southern Comfort Shelters’ Blast Resistant Tent

BakerRisk Webinar: “What to Know about Southern Comfort Shelters’ Blast Resistant Tent” June 2, 2022 @ 11:00 AM CT You are tasked to acquire a worksite tent for an upcoming turnaround (a scheduled shutdown of all or part of a plant’s operations), but which tent will satisfy API 756, “Management of Hazards Associated with Location…

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Spring is here, and so are the hawks at BakerRisk Headquarters!

Springtime at BakerRisk headquarters (San Antonio, Texas) means hawk nesting season. A pair of Red-tailed Hawks that live in and around our neighborhood year-round rebuild their nest on our property around April/May each year. The pair (who we’ve named Romeo and Juliet) hatch their young in a tree next to our balcony overlooking our peaceful…

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Process Safety Management Training at BakerRisk

Two men taking a tour at a petrochemical facility and training on process safety management

BakerRisk Learning Center process safety training BakerRisk has been at the front line of risk management and safety education for over 30 years. At the BakerRisk Learning Center (BRLC), clients can experience process safety management training customized for their unique needs and busy schedules. From beginning to end, BakerRisk’s training courses are designed for effectiveness…

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BakerRisk at the 2022 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Spring Meeting and 18th Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS)

BakerRisk is pleased to join the 2022 Spring Meeting and 18th Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS), hosted by the American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE) and the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS). This in-person event will take place on Sunday, April 10 – Thursday, April 14, 2022 in BakerRisk’s very own “backyard” –…

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Patent Issued for FORTRESS Protective Buildings’ Unparalleled Design

BakerRisk is excited to share that our expertly designed and engineered FORTRESS Protective Building has officially been patented by the United States Department of Commerce. BakerRisk inventors William Mather, Thomas Mander, John Dyer, Murtaza Gandhi, and Alexander Fergusson designed, engineered, and tested the building drawing from their years of experience with design of protective structures,…

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“Proper Handling of Toxic Inhalation Hazard (TIH) Chemicals” featured in the Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP)

The Chemical Engineering Progress journal recently featured the article “Proper Handling of Toxic Inhalation Hazard (TIH) Chemicals,” by Mike Broadribb and Rafael Callejas-Tovar. This article provides guidance for handling TIH chemicals using two types of technical safety studies, which together provide an unbeatable approach to risk management and mitigation: Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) approach…

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Industrial Disasters and What Was Learned from Them

The Lessons Learned from Industrial Disasters The history of human innovation through industry, while remarkable, is not without its pitfalls. Occasionally, progress is marked not by the chiming bells of success but by the thunderous booms of catastrophe. Such is the nature of industrial explosions – devastating, tragic, yet imbued with powerful lessons for the…