Process industry accidents can result in catastrophic losses such as fatalities and multiple injuries, as well as substantial economic loss, property destruction and harm to the environment.

First published by IChemE in 1974 around the time of the disastrous explosion at Flixborough, the Loss Prevention Bulletin (LPB) provides a way for the process industries to share information on accidents with the intention that other organisations could learn the same process safety lessons without repeating the same mistakes.

Now with a 50-year archive of lessons learned from accidents, LPB is the leading source of process safety case studies. As well as covering major accidents, such as Bhopal, Seveso, Piper Alpha, Texas City, Buncefield, it regularly includes less well known incidents and near-misses whose details are not widely available elsewhere.