CCPS (Center for Chemical Proc

This CCPS Guideline book outlines current transportation risk analysis software programs and demonstrates several available risk assessment programs f…

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

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

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

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

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…

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 …

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

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

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

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 …

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

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

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

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Written by reliability data experts, the book gives plant managers and supervisors the guidance they need to collect, and use with confidence, process…

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

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

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…

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

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 …

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…

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

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

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 …