Twenty-Five Years of EPC Safety

Sharing olefins-specific safety information was one of the principal motivations for organizing the first Ethylene Producers' Conference twenty-five years ago.  The conferences have been a success in this regard, as this paper shows by highlighting some of the more important safety topics covered by the conferences to date.  The papers mentioned are among nearly 150 safety papers available at the EPC Proceedings website.  Incident reports have been one of the most popular features in all sessions of the conferences; the website includes a database to make finding the safety incident reports as easy as possible.  The AIChE has a long history of providing a wide range of process safety resources, the most relevant of which are highlighted here.  Some outside sources of safety information are also mentioned.  A time line has also been included to summarize the EPC's activities in the context of selected plant incidents, significant governmental actions, and other industry developments.