January 27, 2015 at 09:12 PM
Federal chemical safety investigators are set to release on Wednesday a final report and accompanying recommendations calling for tighter industry standards following their probe of the August 2012 crude unit fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, CA, an investigation that has been subject to controversy due to both the length of the probe and an ongoing debate over whether regulators should adopt a European-style “safety case” approach to head off such disasters.