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

Prevention, preparedness, response and recovery–the key components of emergency planning–form the major sections of this work. The book first describe…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

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

While there are many resources available on fire protection and prevention in chemical petrochemical and petroleum plants—this is the first book that …

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

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 …

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

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

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

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

Familiarizes the student or an engineer new to process safety with the concept of process safety management Serves as a comprehensive reference for Pr…

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 …

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

The book supplements Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis by providing the failure rate data needed to perform a chemical proces…

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

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

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

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

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 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 explains the decision-making processes for the management of instrumented protective systems (IPS) throughout a project's life cycle. It use…

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

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

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

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

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