Summer 2021 Newsletter: Terminal Risk Management

Below is our Summer 2021 Newsletter dedicated to Terminal Risk Management. If you’d like to receive these topics directly in your email box, click here. If you’d like to learn more about these topics or speak with a consultant, please Contact Us. A key function of storage terminals is to provide critical buffer volume for the global…

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Spring 2021 Newsletter: Spring Has Sprung With Renewable Energy

Below is our Spring 2021 Newsletter dedicated to Renewable Energy. If you’d like to receive these topics directly in your email box, click here. If you’d like to learn more about these topics or speak with a consultant please Contact Us. Sustainable Energy BakerRisk’s renewable and sustainable services focus on hazard identification and risk mitigation associated with…

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Fall 2020 Newsletter: BakerRisk Expands Knowledge Share

Below is our Fall 2020 Newsletter dedicated to Knowledge Share. If you’d like to receive these topics directly in your email box, click here. If you’d like to learn more about these topics or speak with a consultant please Contact Us. Expanding Industry Safety Resources From inception, BakerRisk has leveraged research and development with support from our…

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Expanding Industry Safety Resources

BakerRisk continues to deliver through COVID-19 challenges

From inception, BakerRisk has leveraged research and development with support from our consulting operations to provide our clients high value services, cutting edge products, and extensive research. While working closely with our clients to support their needs, our professionals also actively participate on a variety of industry committees to offer their knowledge, contribute BakerRisk’s R&D, publish…

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Analyzing Storage Terminal Risk During COVID-19 Work from Home

BakerRisk has the unique ability to use the results from facility siting studies (FSS) to enhance reviews of other critical safety systems throughout terminals. Consequence and risk-based FSS can support other technical safety studies such as fire and gas detector analysis, fire hazard and mitigation, and hazardous area classification. Other studies we have recently performed…

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BakerRisk Webinar Series – Fire and Gas Detector Mapping

Historically, the placement of fire and gas detectors has been based on experience and judgment. Detectors placed following this approach may provide valuable data and alarms, but detector placement is inconsistent from site to site. Performance-based detector placement using established consequence models, wind direction data, and 3D object interaction provides an approach that can be consistently…

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Winter 2019 Newsletter – Shelter-in-Place

Building Pressurization – A False Sense of Safety for Shelter-in-Place By Anthony Sarrack A common method of mitigating risk incurred by occupants of a building from external flammable and toxic hazards is to pressurize the building.  A pressurized building precludes infiltration of hazardous gases by establishing outward flow through the leak paths, and it purges…

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Winter 2019 Newsletter

Below you can find our Winter 2019 Newsletter dedicated to Shelter-in-Place. If you’d like to receive these topics directly in your email box, click here. If you’d like to learn more about these topics or speak with a consultant please Contact Us. Toxic Shelter Design & Assessment The presentation Toxic Shelter Testing & Assessment is an informative guideline presentation…

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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…