Incidents That Define Process Safety

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-92516-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Incidents That Define Process Safety describes approximately fifty incidents that have had a significant impact on the chemical and refining industries' approaches to modern process safety. Events are described in detail so readers get a fundamental understanding of the root causes, the consequences, the lessons learned, and actions that can prevent a recurrence. There are exhaustive investigative reports about these events, allowing you to apply the resulting safety principles to their current operations.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.
Foreword by John Mogford.
1. Introduction.
2. Blind Operations.
3. Design.
4. External Causes.
5. Inspection and Maintenance.
6. Knowledge and Training.
7. Black of Hazid (Hazard Identification).
8. Management of Change.
9. Not Learning From Near Misses.
10. Operating Practices.
11. Permit to Work Systems.
12. Emergency Response.
13. Human Factors.
Glossary.
Standards and Regulations Referred to in This Book.

Über Autor(innen)

BP Process Safety Community of Practice has published aseries of more than fifteen booklets on process safety applied tothe oil and gas industry under the coordination of FredericGil, Process Safety & Fire Engineering Advisor for BP plc,in Sunbury, UK, and John Atherton, BP plc, retired.
Since 1985, the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)has been the world leader in developing and disseminatinginformation on process safety management and technology. CCPS, anindustry technology alliance of the American Institute of ChemicalEngineers (AIChE), has published more than eighty books in itsprocess safety guidelines and process safety concepts series.