Accidents and other safety incidents at petroleum refineries and chemical plants can quickly escalate to full-blown crises. Not only can they injure or kill workers, they also quickly become PR nightmares. Smoke billowing from a refinery or chemical plant quickly makes the news, as television crews swiftly converge on an accident site.
A wireless network of area gas detectors, personal gas detectors and a weather monitor can be monitored at a mobile command center equipped with plume-tracking software and other software applications.