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High Integrity Systems and Safety Management in Hazardous Industries
This concise reference explains best practices in design engineering and operational safety management of high-hazard process plants.
J.R Thomson (Author)
9780128019962, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 9 January 2015
360 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.3 cm, 0.89 kg
"...easy to read, has plenty of case studies to illustrate the issues being discussed and includes personal experiences.It is this personal element in the book that makes it so accessible. Rating: 4 Stars" --The Chemical Engineer
This book is about the engineering management of hazardous industries, such as oil and gas production, hydrocarbon refining, nuclear power and the manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Its scope includes an overview of design standards and processes for high integrity systems,safety management processes as applied to hazardous industries and details best practices in design, operations, maintenance and regulation. Selected case studies are used to show how the complex multidisciplinary enterprises to design and operate hazardous plant can sometimes fail. This includes the subtlety and fragility of the robust safety culture that is required. It is aimed at professional engineers who design, build and operate these hazardous plants. This book is also written for business schools and university engineering departments where engineering management is studied.
Part 1: High integrity safety instrumented systems1. Introduction2. Design of high integrity instrumentation and control (I&C) systems:a. Design for high reliabilityb. Common mode failure and I&C architecturec. Selection of logic elementsd. Setting up a high integrity software project3. The second industrial revolution – the evolution of the computer4. Cyber security5. The human-machine interface6. Managing the safety of ageing I&C equipmentPart 2: Pressure vessels7. Learning from ignorance – a brief history of pressure vessel integrity and failuresPart 3: Safety management8. Introduction and safety culture9. Management systems failures10. The human factor11. Refineries12. Offshore oil production: Piper Alpha and the Cullen Report13. BP14. Chernobyl and Fukushima15. Safety management and safety justification in hazardous industriesEpilogue
Subject Areas: Engineering: general [TBC], Health & safety issues [KNXC]
