Technology for Greater Personnel Safety at BASF Freeport

Safety of field personnel is the highest priority for process manufacturers. However, the enormous size of many plants and the growing complexity of their field operations leaves most plants struggling to improve field safety and emergency procedures beyond past practice.

In an abnormal or accident situation, three questions always become critical: Are people in any danger or risk? Where are our people? If all are not accounted for, where and when were those missing last seen?

In such situations, timely and accurate answers to these questions may mean the difference between safety and injury or even loss of life. Plant staff develop speed and accuracy through frequent practice and drills of their mustering procedures. But, some plants are now deploying electronic mustering applications which they believe further improve the performance and accuracy of these procedures.

Deploying outdoor network infrastructures is the enabler that offers plants an opportunity to develop an electronic mustering capability. In 2014, the Freeport (Texas) operations of BASF deployed an electronic mustering application for personnel safety that leveraged the plant's earlier investment in a plant perimeter network infrastructure.

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