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Record Nr.

UNINA9910841207403321

Titolo

Guidelines for risk based process safety [[electronic resource] /] / Center for Chemical Process Safety

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Interscience, c2007

ISBN

1-282-78312-2

9786612783128

0-470-92510-8

0-470-92511-6

1-60119-895-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (756 p.)

Disciplina

660.2804

660/.2804

Soggetti

Chemical processes - Safety measures

Hazardous substances - Safety regulations - United States

Hazardous substances - Risk assessment - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Glossary; Acknowledgments; Preface; Executive Summary; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 OVERVIEW OF RISK BASED PROCESS SAFETY; I COMMIT TO PROCESS SAFETY; II UNDERSTAND HAZARDS AND RISK; III MANAGE RISK; IV LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety provides guidelines for industries that manufacture, consume, or handle chemicals, by focusing on new ways to design, correct, or improve process safety management practices. This new framework for thinking about process safety builds upon the original process safety management ideas published in the early 1990s, integrates industry lessons learned over the intervening years, utilizes applicable ""total quality"" principles (i.e., plan, do, check, act), and organizes it in a way that will be useful to all organizations - even those with relativel