Published Jul 4, 2025 | Last updated May 8, 2026 | Industry, Oil and Gas
Loss of Containment (LoC) occurs when a hazardous substance escapes from the system designed to hold it. This may involve gases like ammonia, as well as liquids or solids leaking from tanks, pipelines, valves, or vessels. In many industries this is dangerous, but in...
Published Jul 4, 2025 | Last updated May 8, 2026 | Industry, Manufacturing
In 2018, a devastating explosion tore through the Didion Milling Inc. corn milling facility in Cambria, Wisconsin, USA. Didion Milling Inc. is an agricultural processing and co-located bioscience facility specialising in dry corn mill, industrial alcohol and ethanol...
Published Jul 4, 2025 | Last updated May 8, 2026 | Industry, OpenRisk
This article explores the risks involved in ammonia release and shows how the bowtie method can be used to identify potential causes, strengthen barriers, and reduce the impact of an ammonia release. The industrial use of ammonia (NH₃) is widespread, including...
Published Jul 2, 2025 | Last updated May 8, 2026 | Industry, OpenRisk
Bowtie diagrams are a graphic tool that are shaped like a bow-tie. Bowtie’s are centered around an unwanted event (top event) with preventative barriers to the left and mitigating barriers to the right of the top event. In this way, the bowtie visualises how threats...
Published Jun 9, 2025 | Last updated Jul 7, 2025 | Industry, Mining, OpenRisk
The 2010 Chilean Mining Accident In 2010, 33 workers spent 69 days trapped inside the San Jose gold and copper mine after it collapsed on August 5th. The “Chilean mining accident” (2010 Copiapó mining accident) involved a rock fall that triggered a cave-in....
