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Appendix G

Acronyms

ACS American Chemical Society
AHP Analytic Hierarchy Process
AIChE The American Institute of Chemical Engineers
ASCE Council on Natural Disaster Reduction
 
BCA Benefit-Cost Analysis
BC Hydro British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority
 
CAAA U.S. Congress of the Clean Air Act Amendments
CACHE Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Education
CalARP California Accidental Release Prevention
CARPP California Accidental Release Prevention Program
CCPS Center for Chemical Process Safety
CEI Dow Chemical Exposure Index
CFATS Department of Homeland Security’s Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards
CLC The Institute Community Liaison Committee
CMA Chemical Manufacturers Association
COMAH Control of Major Accidents Hazards Regulation
CPS Chemical Process Safety
CSB U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
 
DHS U.S. Department of Homeland Security
DSPA New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Act
Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2012. The Use and Storage of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) at Bayer CropScience. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13385.
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DTSC California Department of Toxic Substances Control
 
ECB European Chemicals Bureau
ECC East Carbamoylation Complex
EHS Environment, Health and Safety
EP Emergency Preparedness
EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPCRA Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (also known as SARA Title III)
ERPG Emergency Response Planning Guidelines
ESF Engineering Safety Feature
EU European Union Dow Fire and Explosion Index
 
F&EI Dow Fire and Explosion Index
 
KMECA Fault Tree Analysis; Event Tree Analysis: and Failure Modes. Effects and Criticality Analysis
 
HAZOP Hazard and Operability Analysis
HCI Hydrogen Chloride
HQI Health Quotient Index
HSE Health and Safety Executive
 
IBI Inherent Benign-ness Indicator
ICI Imperial Chemical Industries
ILO International Labor Organization
INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
INSET INherent SHE Evaluation Tool
INSIDE INherent SHE [Safety. Health. Environment] In DEsign
iRET Integrated Risk Estimation Tool
ISD Inherently Safer Design
I2SI Integrated Inherent Safety Index
ISI Inherent Safety Index
ISIM Inherent Safety Index Module
ISL Inherent Safety Level
ISO The Contra Costa Industrial Safety Ordinance
ISP Inherently Safer Processes
IST Inherently Safer Technology
IUPAC Bureau of the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry
 
KPEPC Kanawha/Putnam Local Emergency Planning Committee
KPIs Key Performance Indicators
KVEPC Kanawha Valley Emergency Planning Committee
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LEPC Local Emergency Planning Committees
 
MAU Multi-Attribute Utility
MAUT Multi-Attribute Utility Theory
MCC N-Methyl Carbomoyl Chloride
MIBK Methyl lsobutyl Ketone
MIC Methyl isocyanate
MMA Mono-Methylamine
 
NACOSH National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health
NAS National Academy of Sciences
NCF Naphthylchloroformate
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIHHS Installation Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations
NRC National Research Council
NSF National Science Foundation
 
OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
OHI Occupational Health Index
OSHA United States, Occupational Safety and Health Administration
 
PCMIC People Concerned about MIC
PDCA Plan Do Check Act
PFD Process Row Diagram
PHA Process Hazard Analysis
PIIS Loughborough Prototype Index of Inherent Safety
PPA Pollution Prevention Act
PRI Process Route Index
PRHI Process Route Healthiness Index
PSAs Probabilistic Safety Analyses
PSM Process Safety Management
 
QAISP Qualitative Assessment for Inherently Safer Design
 
REACH European Union’s Renewed European Policy for Chemicals
RISO The City of Richmond’s Industrial Safety Ordinance
RMP Risk Management Program
 
SERC State Emergency Planning Committees
SFK/TAA Major Accident Commission, Technical Committee for Plant Safety (Germany)
SIS Safety Instrumented Systems
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SPI Safety Performance Indicator
SREST Substance, Reactivity, Equipment, and Safety Technology
 
TCPA Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act
TORCAT Toxic Release Consequence Analysis Tool
TRI EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory
 
UCC Union Carbide Corporation
UCIL Union Carbide India Limited
UNEP United Nations Environment Program
 
VSL Value of a Statistical Life
VZs Vulnerable Zones
 
WCC West Carbamoylation Complex
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The use of hazardous chemicals such as methyl isocyanate can be a significant concern to the residents of communities adjacent to chemical facilities, but is often an integral part of the chemical manufacturing process. In order to ensure that chemical manufacturing takes place in a manner that is safe for workers, members of the local community, and the environment, the philosophy of inherently safer processing can be used to identify opportunities to eliminate or reduce the hazards associated with chemical processing. However, the concepts of inherently safer process analysis have not yet been adopted in all chemical manufacturing plants. The Use and Storage of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) at Bayer CropScience presents a possible framework to help plant managers choose between alternative processing options-considering factors such as environmental impact and product yield as well as safety- to develop a chemical manufacturing system.

In 2008, an explosion at the Bayer CropScience chemical production plant in Institute, West Virginia, resulted in the deaths of two employees, a fire within the production unit, and extensive damage to nearby structures. The accident drew renewed attention to the fact that the Bayer facility manufactured and stores methyl isocyanate, or MIC - a volatile, highly toxic chemical used in the production of carbamate pesticides and the agent responsible for thousands of death in Bhopal, India, in 1984. In the Institute accident, debris from the blast hit the shield surrounding a MIC storage tank, and although the container was not damaged, an investigation by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board found that the debris could have struck a relief valve vent pipe and cause the release of MIC to the atmosphere.

The Board's investigation also highlighted a number of weaknesses in the Bayer facility's emergency response systems. In light of these concerns, the Board requested the National Research Council convene a committee of independent experts to write a report that examines the use and storage of MIC at the Bayer facility. The Use and Storage of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) at Bayer CropScience also evaluates the analyses on alternative production methods for MIC and carbamate pesticides preformed by Bayer and the previous owners of the facility.

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