CCPS (Center for Chemical Proc

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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 book provides guidance on characterizing, recognizing, and responding to warning signs to help avoid process incidents and injuries before they o…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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…

While there is no «perfect» solution or absolute zero risk, engineering design can significantly reduce risk potential in the CPI. In Guidelines for D…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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