Wiley, 2018. — 398 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-51512-8. An essential guide that offers an understanding of and the practices needed to assess and strengthen process safety culture This book presents a much-needed guide for understanding an organization's working culture and contains information on why a good culture is essential for safe, cost-effective, and high-quality operations....
Wiley – CCPS, 2020. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-66908-1. This book presents a guidance on a large range of decision aids for risk analysts and decision makers in industry so that vital decisions can be made in a more consistent, logical, and rigorous manner. It provide good industry practices on how risk decision making is conducted in the chemical industry from many risk...
2nd Edition. — Wiley – CCPS, 2018. — 382 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-47476-0. 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, evaluate acquisitions, or expand their existing facilities. This book updates the appendices containing both the recommended separation distances and the...
Wiley-AIChE, 2011. — 242 p. Process safety management (PSM) systems are only as effective as the day-to-day ability of the organization to rigorously execute system requirements correctly every time. The failure of just one person in completing a job task correctly just one time can unfortunately lead to serious injuries and potentially catastrophic incidents. In fact, the...
Wiley-AIChE, 1996. — 192 p. Over the years, companies have developed independent systems for managing process safety, environment, health, safety, and quality. Many aspects of these management systems are similar. Integrating EHS management systems can yield economies and improved system effectiveness. This book explains how integration reduces cost of delivery through a...
Wiley-AIChE, 1995. — 386 p. The process industry has developed integrated process safety management programs to reduce or eliminate incidents and major consequences, such as injury, loss of life, property damage, environmental harm, and business interruption. Good documentation practices are a crucial part of retaining past knowledge and experience, and avoiding relearning old...
American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1995. — 360 p. At last, a book that covers safety procedures and standards with information that is rarely available outside of proprietary materials. A comprehensive source for basic and essential operations and procedures in use in any facility, the book offers chemical operators and first line supervisors guidance in applying...
Wiley-AIChE, 1999. — 192 p. Batch reaction systems pose unique challenges to process safety managers because they do not operate in a steady state. The sequence of processing steps, and frequent start-ups and shutdowns, increase the possibility of human errors and equipment failures. And, since batch plants are often designed for shared use, frequent modification of piping and...
Wiley-AIChE, 1993. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-0816905546. Increased automation reduces the potential for operator error, but introduces the possibility of new types of errors in design and maintenance. This book provides designers and operators of chemical process facilities with a general philosophy and approach to safe automation, including independent layers of safety. Acronyms....
Wiley-AIChE, 2004. — 796 p. Powders and bulk solids, handled widely in the chemical, pharmaceutical, agriculture, smelting, and other industries present unique fire, explosion, and toxicity hazards. Indeed, substances which are practically inert in consolidated form may become quite hazardous when converted to powders and granules. The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard...
Wiley-AIChE, 1995. — 352 p. First-line managers have to maintain the integrity of facilities, control manufacturing processes, and handle unusual or emergency situations, as well as respond to the pressures of production demand. On a daily basis, they are closest to the operating personnel who may be injured by a process accident, and they are in the best position to spot...
Wiley-AIChE, 1996. — 156. Inherently Safer Chemical Processes presents a holistic approach to making the development, manufacture, and use of chemicals safer. It discusses strategies for substituting more benign chemicals at the development stage, minimizing risk in the transportation of chemicals, using safer processing methods at the manufacturing stage, and decommissioning a...
Wiley, 2019. — 480 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-52907. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of investing chemical processing incidents. It presents on-the-job information, techniques, and examples that support successful investigations. Issues related to identification and classification of incidents (including near misses), notifications and initial response, assignment of an...
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000. — 452 p. This volume provides extensive health (toxicological) and safety handling information and data on over 1,000 chemicals of commercial and industrial importance. This volume will provide extensive health (toxicological) and safe-handling information and data on more than 1000 chemicals of commercial and industrial importance. It provides...
3rd Ed. — Pearson Education, Inc., 2011. — 758 p. — ISBN10: 0131382268. The Leading Guide to Process Safety Now Extensively Updated for Today's Processes and Systems As chemical processes have grown more complex, so have the safety systems required to prevent accidents. Chemical Process Safety, Third Edition, offers students and practitioners a more fundamental understanding of...
2 ed. — Prentice Hall, 2002. — 650 p. This second edition of Chemical Process Safety is designed to enhance the process of teaching and applying the fundamentals of chemical process safety. It is appropriate for an industrial reference, a senior-level undergraduate course, or a graduate course in chemical process safety. It can be used by anyone interested in improving chemical...
U.S. Department of Justice, 2001. - 96 p. Commonly used Symbols and Abbreviations About this Report Description of Chemical Agents, Toxic Industrial Materials, and Biological Agents Overview of CB Decontamination Introduction to CB Decontaminants Overview of Emergency First Responder Initiatives for CB Decontamination Selection Factors Decontamination Equipment Evaluation...
U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command, 2001. - 50 p. Executive Summary Objective Technical Approach Results - Purposes of Decontamination - Methods of Mass Decontamination - Decontamination Procedures - Decontamination Approaches - Types of Chemical Victims - Prioritizing Casualties for Decontamination - Casualty Processing - Additional Considerations...
New York: Academic Press, 2015. - 1199 p. Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents, Second Edition covers every aspect of deadly toxic chemicals used in conflicts, warfare and terrorism. Including findings from experimental as well as clinical studies, this essential reference offers in-depth coverage of individual toxicants, target organ toxicity, major incidents,...
OSHAcademy Course 105 Study Guide. — Geigle Safety Group, 2017. — 26 p. More than 30 million workers are potentially exposed to one or more chemical hazards in the workplace. There are an estimated 650,000 existing hazardous chemical products and hundreds of new ones are being introduced annually. This poses a serious challenge for employers as well as a health and safety...
Elsevier Inc., Burlington, USA, 2005 ISBN: 0-7506-7749-X Perspective Good Intentions Focusing on Water and Steam — The Ever-Present and Sometimes Evil Twins Preparation for Maintenance Maintenance-Induced Accidents and Process Piping Problems The One-Minute Modifier: Small Quick Changes in a Plant Can Create Bad Memories Accidents Involving Compressors, Hoses, and Pumps Failure...
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