Practical Industrial Safety, Risk Assessment and Shutdown Systems

The essential safety guide for plant engineers, control engineers and engineering management.

Dave Macdonald (Author)

9780750658041

Paperback, published 25 November 2003

384 pages
26.4 x 19.5 x 2.4 cm, 0.84 kg

"This exciting new Practical IDC series of book from Newnes provides profession-level resources in key and emerging technologies" --Health & Safety at Work, March 04"It is a work that will probably be purchased by those who are undergoing training in the subject matter, and will form a valuable teaching resource in that context." --Health and Safety at Work. October 2004

Approx.384 pages

Introduction to Safety Instrumentation
Hazards and Risk Reduction
Hazard Studies
Safety Requirements Specifications
Technology Choices and the Conceptual Design Stage
Basic Reliability Analysis Applied to Safety Systems
Safety in Field Instruments and Devices
Engineering the Safety System : Hardware
Engineering: the Application Software
Overall Planning: IEC Phases 6,7 and 8
Installation and Commissioning (IEC Phase 12)
Validation, Operations and Management of Change
Justification for a Safety Instrumented System
Practicals 1-8
Practical Answers
Glossary.

Subject Areas: Automatic control engineering [TJFM], Electronics engineering [TJF], Engineering: general [TBC], Health & safety issues [KNXC]