Human Fatigue Risk Management: Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry

Human Fatigue Risk Management: Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry teachers users everything they need to know to mitigate the risk of fatigued workers in a plant or refinery. As human fatigue has been directly linked to several major disasters, the book explores the API RP 755 guidelines that were released to quell these types of incidents. This book will help users follow API RP 755 and/or implement a fatigue risk management system in their organization. Susan Murray, a recognized expert in the field of sleep deprivation and its relation to high hazard industries, has written this book to be useful for HSE managers, plant and project managers, occupational safety professionals, and engineers/managers in the chemical processing industry. As scheduling of shifts is an important factor in reducing fatigue and therefore accident rates, this book will help users prove the benefits of more frequent staff rotation, all in an effort to implement an ideal scheduling plan. The book goes beyond API RP 755, offering more detail and better understanding of why certain measures for managing fatigue are beneficial to a company, including examples of how the theory can be put into practice. It is a simple, digestible book for managers who are interested in addressing human factor issues at their workplace in order to raise safety standards. Covers sleep, sleep disorders, and the consequences of fatigue as related to high-hazard industriesHelps improve safety standards at the plant levelProvides information on how to comply with API RP 755 and related OSHA 29CFR1910 articlesRelates fatigue and human performance to accidents, helping readers make a case for implementing a human fatigue risk management policy, which, in turn, prevents loss of property and life INDICE: Chapter 1 - The Danger of Sleepy Workers in the Processing Industry Chapter 2 - Sleep Chapter 3 - Biology of Sleep Chapter 4 - Sleep Hygiene Chapter 5 - Sleep Disorders Chapter 6 - Fatigue and Human Performance Chapter 7 - Fatigue and Accidents Chapter 8 - Regulations and Guidelines Chapter 9 - Fatigue Counter Measures Chapter 10 - Work Schedules Chapter 11 - Work Environment Chapter 12 - Work Task Design Chapter 13 - Employee Training Chapter 14 - Naps Chapter 15 - Stimulants & Medicine Chapter 16 - Creating a FRMS Chapter 17 - Incident Investigations References Index

• ISBN: 978-0-12-802412-6
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 27/05/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés