In the world of process safety, every little detail adds up; so as one of my favorite bosses always said… “sweat the small stuff”! This became crystal clear during an incident investigation where a flanged connection was the point of release. Most people look at a flanged connection as a simple means to connect to ends of pipe together, but oh it is so much more and thus even the smallest of details can make or break your primary containment system at a flange connection. Here is the level of detail that we have to get to in order to prevent a LOPC event…