What Is An Abnormal Situation?
A disturbance or series of disturbances in a process that cause plant operations to deviate from their normal operating state. The nature of the abnormal situation may be of minimal or catastrophic consequence. It is the job of the operations team to identify the cause of the situation and execute compensatory or corrective actions in a timely and efficient manner. A disturbance may cause a reduction in production; in more serious cases it may endanger human life. Abnormal situations extend, develop, and change over time in the dynamic process control environments increasing the complexity of the intervention requirements.
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“In abnormal times like our own, when institutions are changing rapidly in several directions at once and the traditional framework of society has broken down, it becomes more and more difficult to measure any type of behavior against any other.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)