Lately I've been geeking out over the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's youtube channel. Absolutely outstanding animations, incredible narration, and simple-yet-thorough explanations of various...
Lately I've been geeking out over the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's youtube channel. Absolutely outstanding animations, incredible narration, and simple-yet-thorough explanations of various chemical disasters.
Highly recommended; I plan to comb through other agencies for similar content.
Wow, I've never seen their YouTube channel before, but you're right, those animations are very well done. Whoever did it really knows exactly what they're doing. Specifically, they know they...
Wow, I've never seen their YouTube channel before, but you're right, those animations are very well done. Whoever did it really knows exactly what they're doing.
Specifically, they know they didn't have the budget/skill to do facial animations well. So in every shot that has a person, the only time they talk is if they're not facing the camera. Many of the shots are framed from behind a person. The body animations are not perfect, but they're totally acceptable for a video like this, where the focus isn't on the humans so much as illustrating what's happening in the machinery.
That USCSB video on the blowout in Oklahoma was incredibly interesting and also strangely enthralling. I didn't expect to watch all 20 minutes of it, but it held my interest the entire time. p.s....
That USCSB video on the blowout in Oklahoma was incredibly interesting and also strangely enthralling. I didn't expect to watch all 20 minutes of it, but it held my interest the entire time.
p.s. Is drillers turning off the alarms systems something that is commonly done? That's one of thing that really stood out to me as being totally neglectful, and it honestly surprised me that the drillers were even able to do that. You would think such critical systems would not be able to be disabled without some sort of senior supervisor approval.
And if you will humor me further, at the end of the video the USCSB said it suggested "standards" for "state based" alarms systems to be developed, but do you happen to know if that recommendation was ever actually implemented?
It also surprised me to learn that no Federal safety oversight or regulatory body exists for on-shore drilling in the US, and that it's entirely left up to the individual States instead. Related to that, do you know if the other USCSB recommendation, for OSHA to apply that "PSM" safety standard (or develop a new one) for on-shore drilling, was ever accepted?
In any case, thanks for sharing that video. It was a neat glimpse into the oil/gas drilling process.
Thanks again for providing some insight into the industry. :) And, ah. That certainly explains why they turn off the alarms. It seems like a pretty shitty system if every little thing sets it off....
Thanks again for providing some insight into the industry. :)
And, ah. That certainly explains why they turn off the alarms. It seems like a pretty shitty system if every little thing sets it off. I'm surprised it's still so rudimentary, mechanical, and one-dimensional. I assumed they would have designed it so that at least when doing standard procedure type stuff, like transferring from one tank to another, it wouldn't go off. No wonder it gets ignored and/or disabled. :(
Lately I've been geeking out over the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's youtube channel. Absolutely outstanding animations, incredible narration, and simple-yet-thorough explanations of various chemical disasters.
Highly recommended; I plan to comb through other agencies for similar content.
Wow, I've never seen their YouTube channel before, but you're right, those animations are very well done. Whoever did it really knows exactly what they're doing.
Specifically, they know they didn't have the budget/skill to do facial animations well. So in every shot that has a person, the only time they talk is if they're not facing the camera. Many of the shots are framed from behind a person. The body animations are not perfect, but they're totally acceptable for a video like this, where the focus isn't on the humans so much as illustrating what's happening in the machinery.
We used these sort of videos in my chemical engineering classes as lessons in process safety.
I’m sure @Loire has seen at least a few of them.
That USCSB video on the blowout in Oklahoma was incredibly interesting and also strangely enthralling. I didn't expect to watch all 20 minutes of it, but it held my interest the entire time.
p.s. Is drillers turning off the alarms systems something that is commonly done? That's one of thing that really stood out to me as being totally neglectful, and it honestly surprised me that the drillers were even able to do that. You would think such critical systems would not be able to be disabled without some sort of senior supervisor approval.
And if you will humor me further, at the end of the video the USCSB said it suggested "standards" for "state based" alarms systems to be developed, but do you happen to know if that recommendation was ever actually implemented?
It also surprised me to learn that no Federal safety oversight or regulatory body exists for on-shore drilling in the US, and that it's entirely left up to the individual States instead. Related to that, do you know if the other USCSB recommendation, for OSHA to apply that "PSM" safety standard (or develop a new one) for on-shore drilling, was ever accepted?
In any case, thanks for sharing that video. It was a neat glimpse into the oil/gas drilling process.
Thanks again for providing some insight into the industry. :)
And, ah. That certainly explains why they turn off the alarms. It seems like a pretty shitty system if every little thing sets it off. I'm surprised it's still so rudimentary, mechanical, and one-dimensional. I assumed they would have designed it so that at least when doing standard procedure type stuff, like transferring from one tank to another, it wouldn't go off. No wonder it gets ignored and/or disabled. :(