The first issue of 2012 of our Loss Control Newsletter covers incidents in the petrochemicals industry and the lessons that can be learned from them.

This issue includes:

• Loss Report — Summaries of losses that occurred from December 2011 through June 2012.
• Safety news from around the world — Industry task forces to review Gulf of Mexico safety;  helicoper incident at a refinery in Colombia; availability of Institute of Chemical Engineers articles free of charge online; the Abnormal Situation Management Consortium's reports on industry incidents; cyber security incidents; and the filling of a 90,000 square-foot air hangar with high expansion foam within two minutes.
• The shale gas revolution — Is fracking the hazard that environmentalists claim?
• Lube oil fires — Can fires occur when lube oils are handled at temperatures below their flash points?
• Chiba refinery fire — Last year's earthquake and tsunami in Japan resulted in a refinery fire that took 10 days to extinguish. We cover lessons learned from the event. 
• A look back — From our archives, a 1999 article by one of our risk engineers explains issues to consider when constructing pipelines near high-voltage power lines.

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