Case Study

Read the Chemical Safety Board's case study, The Explosion at Concept Sciences:

Hazards of Hydroxylamine, regarding the February, 1999 hydroxylamine explosion at the Concept Sciences facility in Pennsylvania.

Then write a report that includes the following:

• summary of the incident,

• discussion of causal factors,

• discussion of how inadequate process safety information contributed to the incident, and

• recommendations for improvements to the process safety management program at the facility.

Your response should be a minimum of two pages in length, double-spaced.

All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations, and cited per APA guidelines.