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Safety and Risk Management in Digitalized Process Systems

A special issue of Safety (ISSN 2313-576X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 11293

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Md Tanjin Amin

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Guest Editor
Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center (MKOPSC), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Interests: fault diagnosis; safety analysis; data-driven models; cyber-physical system safety; risk assessment; machine learning
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Process safety has always been a concern, from the dawn of industrialization. Due to catastrophic accidents worldwide, the importance of this unique research field was perceived, and several phenomenal research works helped to significantly reduce the number of accidents and provide us with a safer world.

However, due the inception of Industry 4.0 and the increasing trend of process digitalization, the conventional safety analysis technqiues need to be upgraded to handle the new challenges. These new adoptions are creating more data. How these data are used will shape the future of process safety and risk management.

This Special Issue on “Safety and Risk Management in Digitalized Process Systems” aims to be a repository of state-of-the-art progress on inherent safety, hazard identification, safety culture, human factor, domino effect, fault detection and diagnosis, dynamic risk assessment and management, human–machine conflict, accident modelling, consequence modelling, resilience analysis, and security analysis of digitalized process systems. Both review and original research articles will be considered for this Special Issue.

Dr. Md Tanjin Amin
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • inherent safety
  • safety culture
  • human factor
  • fault detection and diagnosis
  • dynamic risk analysis
  • process safety management
  • resilience analysis

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A Deep-Learning Approach to Driver Drowsiness Detection
by Mohammed Imran Basheer Ahmed, Halah Alabdulkarem, Fatimah Alomair, Dana Aldossary, Manar Alahmari, Munira Alhumaidan, Shoog Alrassan, Atta Rahman, Mustafa Youldash and Gohar Zaman
Safety 2023, 9(3), 65; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety9030065 - 13 Sep 2023
Cited by 17 | Viewed by 8523
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Drowsy driving is a widespread cause of traffic accidents, especially on highways. It has become an essential task to seek an understanding of the situation in order to be able to take immediate remedial actions to detect driver drowsiness and enhance road safety. [...] Read more.
Drowsy driving is a widespread cause of traffic accidents, especially on highways. It has become an essential task to seek an understanding of the situation in order to be able to take immediate remedial actions to detect driver drowsiness and enhance road safety. To address the issue of road safety, the proposed model offers a method for evaluating the level of driver fatigue based on changes in a driver’s eyeball movement using a convolutional neural network (CNN). Further, with the help of CNN and VGG16 models, facial sleepiness expressions were detected and classified into four categories (open, closed, yawning, and no yawning). Subsequently, a dataset of 2900 images of eye conditions associated with driver sleepiness was used to test the models, which include a different range of features such as gender, age, head position, and illumination. The results of the devolved models show a high degree of accountability, whereas the CNN model achieved an accuracy rate of 97%, a precision of 99%, and recall and F-score values of 99%. The VGG16 model reached an accuracy rate of 74%. This is a considerable contrast between the state-of-the-art methods in the literature for similar problems. Full article
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Online Process Safety Performance Indicators Using Big Data: How a PSPI Looks Different from a Data Perspective
by Paul Singh, Coen van Gulijk and Neil Sunderland
Safety 2023, 9(3), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety9030062 - 4 Sep 2023
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This work presents a data-centric method to use IoT data, generated from the site, to monitor core functions of safety barriers on a batch reactor. The approach turns process safety performance indicators (PSPIs) into online, globally available safety indicators that eliminate variability in [...] Read more.
This work presents a data-centric method to use IoT data, generated from the site, to monitor core functions of safety barriers on a batch reactor. The approach turns process safety performance indicators (PSPIs) into online, globally available safety indicators that eliminate variability in human interpretation. This work also showcases a class of PSPIs that are reliable and time-dependent but only work in a digital online environment: profile PSPIs. It is demonstrated that the profile PSPI opens many new opportunities for leading indicators, without the need for complex mathematics. Online PSPI analyses were performed at the Syngenta Huddersfield Manufacturing Centre, Leeds Road, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, and shared with their international headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. The performance was determined with industry software to extract time-series data and perform the calculations. The calculations were based on decades of IoT data stored in the AVEVA Factory Historian. Non-trivial data cleansing and additional data tags were required for the creation of relevant signal conditions and composite conditions. This work demonstrates that digital methods do not require gifted data analysts to report existing PSPIs in near real-time and is well within the capabilities of chemical (safety) engineers. Current PSPIs can also be evaluated in terms of their effectiveness to allow management to make decisions that lead to corrective actions. This improves significantly on traditional PSPI processes that, when reviewed monthly, lead to untimely decisions and actions. This approach also makes it possible to review PSPIs as they develop, receiving notifications of PSPIs when they reach prescribed limits, all with the potential to recommend alternative PSPIs that are more proactive in nature. Full article
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