ABBREVIATIONS

1. BLEVE - Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion

2. VCE - Vapor Cloud Explosion
3. OISD - Oil Industry Safety Directorate
4. ISRS - International Safety Rating System
5. DGFASLI - Directorate General Factory Advice Service & Labor
Institutes
6. CIMAH - Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards
7. NSC - National Safety Council
8. MIC - Methyl Iso Cyanate
9. SCBA - Self Contained Breathing Apparatus
10. TREMCARD - Transport Emergency Card
11. PEL - Permissible Exposure Limit
12. STEL - Short Term Exposure Limit
13. TWA - Time Weighted Average
14. TLV - Threshold Limit Valve
15. MSDS - Material Safety Data Sheet
16. COD - Chemical Oxygen Demand
17. BOD - Biological Oxygen Demand
18. APELL - Awareness And Preparedness For Emergencies At Local
Level
19. CFC - Chloro Fluoro Carbons
20. UL - Underwriters Laboratories
21. HAZOP - Hazard and Operability Studies
22. BIS - Bureau of Indian Standards
23. ISO - International Organization for Standardization
24 WTO - World Trade Organization
25. ISO-9001 - Quality Management Systems
26. ISO 14001 - Environmental Management Systems.
27. EIP - Emergency Information Panel
28. OHSMS - Occupational Health & Safety Management
Systems
29. ACGIH - American Conference of Government Industrial
Hygienists
30. CCOE - Chief Controller Of Explosives
31. ELCB - Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker
32. FLP - Flame Proof
33. PLT - Pipe Line Transfer
34. ILO - International Labor Organization
35. TAC - Tariff Advisory Committee
36. NDC - Non-Destructive Testing
37. PPE - Personal Protective Equipment
38. LPA - Loss Prevention Association
39. NEERI - National Environmental Engineering Research Institute
40. MAH - Major Accident Hazard
41. LEL - Lower Explosive Limited
42. UEL - Upper Explosive Limit
43. IDLH - Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health
44. P&ID - Process and Instrumentation Diagram
45. PFD - Process Flow Diagram
46. UNICEF - United Nations International Children Emergency Fund
47. IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency
48. AGFFF - Aqueous Gel Film Forming Foam
49. AFFF - Aqueous Film Forming Foam
50. SHE - Safety, Health And Environment