BLEVE minimization.

There was a question on the management exam today: How to minimize the likelihood of a BLEVE occuring.

A BLEVE, for those that don't know, stands for "boiling liquid expanding vapour explosion". It occurs when LPG leaks out, causing a sudden pressure drop inside the storage vessel, leading to the liquid inside to boil rapidly. This boiling leads to the formation of a significant amount of vapour, causing an overpressure in the vessel, and hence a subsequent explosion.

Many didn't understand knitting. But I'm hoping that all will agree with me that BLEVEs are dangerous?

Important to minimize the likelihood of a BLEVE. There are lots of things that could be implemented to do this. I went on and on today about the training of personnel, having stringent regulations / restricted access, minimize the amount of enclosed areas, having quality emergency systems in place... etc.

That is not the point though. The point is, there are heaps of ways you can minimize disaster.

However, just because you have eliminated one disaster, doesn't mean another isn't waiting for you right around the corner.

There is a saying. Out of the something... into the something else. Forgot what the something and something else is. Basically it's like you get yourself out a pit just to walk into fire.

Hazard identification.

Risk analysis.

Disaster minimization.

Hmm.