Risk Analysis and Control for Industrial Processes: A System Perspective for Assessing and Avoiding Low-Probability, High-Consequence Events

Risk Analysis in Industrial Processes provides an analysis of the current approaches to preventing disasters, and also gives an overview as to what methods you may wish to adopt. The table of contents covers safety regulations, history and trends, industrial disasters, safety problems, safety tools, cost and benefits of safety. Dr. Pasman and a team of expert contributors have pooled their expertise to create a book that will support you in helping your clients, and preventing your own technological disasters. Tools covered include Life Cycle Assessment, Fault and Event Tree analysis, System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes (STAMP) and System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA). This book will help you make safety not just a cost, but a long term investment from personnel, asset, environmental, and reputation risk. Case studies have been included to assist understanding of how to perform safety analysis. Risk Analysis in Industrial Processes will enable you to make decisions with a high degree of certainty, taking into account possible consequences and how to control disaster risk. . Identify the hazard of a low probability / high consequence event. Develop and install safeguards against these events, and then maintain and audit the safeguards. Control potential high consequence risks INDICE: Industrial processing systems and their mishapsRegulation to safeguard citizens from high consequence technological eventsLoss Prevention: history and trendsCharacteristics of recent industrial disastersSocio-technical systems and resilience engineeringHuman factors, management influences, pressuresNew and improved process and plant risk and resilience analysis toolsExtended process controlCosts of safety and its benefits, decision makingGoal oriented regulationThe important role of knowledgeRisk communication, coping with uncertainty and societal acceptanceConclusions

• ISBN: 978-0-12-800057-1
• Editorial: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 350
• Fecha Publicación: 12/08/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés