CCPS (Center for Chemical Proc

Siting of permanent and temporary buildings in process areas requires careful consideration of potential effects of explosions and fires arising from …

The EPA investigation of a 1994 chemical plant tragedy concluded that «the explosion resulted from a lack of written safe operating procedures…» While…

There is much industry guidance on implementing engineering projects and a similar amount of guidance on Process Safety Management (PSM). However, the…

This book provides guidance to those with responsibility for scheduling and executing a Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR). It outlines a protocol and t…

Powders and bulk solids, handled widely in the chemical, pharmaceutical, agriculture, smelting, and other industries present unique fire, explosion, a…

The serious consequences of vapor cloud explosions, flash fires, and BLEVEs are very well known. Better understanding of the characteristics of these …

This Guidelines book provides technical information on how to conduct a consequence analysis to satisfy your company's needs and the EPA rules. It cov…

The second edition of this essential reference updates and combines two earlier titles to capture the many technological advances for predicting the «…

Over the years, companies have developed independent systems for managing process safety, environment, health, safety, and quality. Many aspects of th…

Providing in-depth guidance on how to design and rate emergency pressure relief systems, Guidelines for Pressure Relief and Effluent Handling Systems …

With new and growing interest in dealing with the hazards of reactive chemicals, this book offers guidelines that can significantly reduce the risk or…

Drawn from international sources, this book provides principles and strategies for the evaluation of chemical reactions, and for using this informatio…

An essential guide that offers an understanding of and the practices needed to assess and strengthen process safety culture Essential Practices for De…

The book is a guide for Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) practitioners. It explains the onion skin model and in particular, how it relates to the …

First-line managers have to maintain the integrity of facilities, control manufacturing processes, and handle unusual or emergency situations, as well…

This book discusses the fundamental skills, techniques, and tools of auditing, and the characteristics of a good process safety management system. A v…

This book combines the synergies between performance improvement systems to help ensure safe and reliable operations, streamline procedures and cross-…

Written by a committee of safety professionals, this book creates a foundation document for the development and application of risk tolerance criteria…

This book helps advance process safety in a key area of interest. Currently, no literature exists which is solely dedicated to process safety for the …

At last, a book that covers safety procedures and standards with information that is rarely available outside of proprietary materials. A comprehensiv…

Whether occurring accidentally or through acts of terrorism, catastrophic chemical releases must be identified early in order to mitigate their conseq…

Chemical process quantitative risk analysis (CPQRA) as applied to the CPI was first fully described in the first edition of this CCPS Guidelines book.…

Guidelines for the Management of Change for Process Safety provides guidance on the implementation of effective and efficient Management of Change (MO…

Complemented by an estimating tool spreadsheet based on a fixed set of chemicals to assist in risk estimations, Probability of Ignition of a Released …

Over 40 papers and posters that share the latest practices in emergency planning related to fixed chemical, pharmaceutical, LNG, and petroleum facilit…

An understanding of organizational change management (OCM) – an often overlooked subject – is essential for successful corporate decision making with …

This guide provides an overview of methods for estimating the characteristics of vapor cloud explosions, flash fires, and boiling-liquid-expanding-vap…

This Guideline presents the framework of process safety knowledge and expertise versus the desired competency level in a «super-matrix» format, vertic…

Process safety management (PSM) systems are only as effective as the day-to-day ability of the organization to rigorously execute system requirements …

This book has been written to address many of the developments since the 1st Edition which have improved how companies survey and select new sites, ev…

Almost all the major accident investigations–Texas City, Piper Alpha, the Phillips 66 explosion, Feyzin, Mexico City–show human error as the principal…

It is crucial for process safety professionals to be aware of best practices for post merger integration at any level. A compilation of industry best …

This guide provides an overview of methods for estimating the characteristics of vapor cloud explosions, flash fires, and boiling-liquid-expanding-vap…

Current industry, government and public emphasis on containment of hazardous materials makes it essential for each plant to reduce and control acciden…

Examines the concept of aging process facilities and infrastructure in high hazard industries and highlights options for dealing with the problem whil…

This book provides a valuable reference tool for technical and management personnel who lead or are a part of incident investigation teams. This secon…

The first part of this book (Chapters 1 and 2) provides an introduction and discusses basic concepts. Chapter 3 deals with the use of the basic human …

This book describes how to conduct a Combustible Dust Hazard Analysis (CDHA) for processes handling combustible solids. The book explains how to do a …

This book provides designers and operators of chemical process facilities with a general philosophy and approach to safe automation, including indepen…

Batch reaction systems pose unique challenges to process safety managers because they do not operate in a steady state. The sequence of processing ste…

An essential guide for recognizing and responding to normalization of deviance to help organizations improve their process safety performance This boo…

The 2nd edition provides an update of information since the publication of the first edition including best practices for managing process safety deve…

Process vent header collection systems are subject to continually varying compositions and flow rates and thus present significant challenges for safe…

In today’s competitive economy, companies often augment in-house production by outsourcing chemical reaction processes and distillation, drying, formu…