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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“Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn’t there. If he can’t pretend that, he will look through the object, or round it, or above it or below it, or in any direction except into it. If, however, you force him to look into it, he will at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.”
—James Agate (1877–1947)