More Incidents That Define Process Safety

John Atherton

• 12 december 2019
• 9781119561347

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PROVIDES REVIEW OF MORE THAN 50 MAJOR INCIDENTS, DESCRIBING HOW AND WHY THEY HAPPENED, LINKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FAILURES TO CCPS RISK BASED PROCESS SAFETY (RBPS) ELEMENTS

Building on a previous volume published over a decade ago, this book describes over fifty more incidents/accidents that have occurred and that have had a significant impact on the safety, health, and well-being of people, the environment, and the business, including incidents from around the world. Each incident is examined and management system failures are related to the CCPS's RBPS elements describing an effective process safety management system. In addition, each incident is presented in sufficient detail to gain an understanding of root causes for the event, the impact the incident had, and focuses on lessons learned for improving process safety risk reduction efforts. The incidents are grouped by incident type, including: reactive chemicals; fires; explosions; environmental/toxic releases; and transportation incidents. The book also covers incidents from non-process-related industries that illustrate similar weaknesses in the basic process safety management elements.

More Incidents That Define Process Safety provides the reader with a succinct RBPS Element-by-incident table in the appendix that identifies the RBPS elements contributing to each incident. Thus, this book consolidates and archives concise, relevant information on representative incidents so readers can apply the safety principles to their current operations. This book:

• Presents and details major incidents worldwide, the factors leading up to them, as well as their impact
• Adds more incidents that have occurred since the first book, including more incidents across the world
• Includes photographs of the incidents' consequences and references for additional study
• Details how applying the CCPS's RBPS elements could have helped prevent the incident
• Applies lessons learned from major process and transportation incidents
• Incorporates events from other industries that have implications for the process industries

More Incidents That Define Process Safety is written to raise process safety awareness, to help readers learn from previous incidents, and to provide lessons to aid in preventing incident recurrence and improve process safety performance. It is a valuable reference for engineers, operations personnel, technicians, and managers involved in the design of, operation of, or business-related decision-making for facilities processing hazardous materials, especially facilities in the chemical, petroleum, refining, and pharmaceutical industries. It is also an insightful supplement that chemical engineering instructors can use to reinforce process safety risk reduction concepts throughout their course curricula.

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) has been the world leader in developing and disseminating information on process safety management and technology since 1985. The CCPS, an industry technology alliance of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), has published over 90 books in its process safety guidelines and process safety concept books, and continues to issue new process safety-related training modules through its Safety in Chemical Engineering Education (SAChE) series.

More Incidents that Define Process Safety book describes over 50 incidents which have had a significant impact on the chemical industry as well as the basic elements of process safety. Each incident is presented in sufficient detail to gain an understanding of root causes for the event with a focus on lessons learned and the impact the incident had on process safety. Incidents are grouped by incident type including Reactive chemical; Fires; Explosions; Environmental/toxic releases; and Transportation incidents. The book also covers incidents from other industries that illustrate the safety management elements.

The book builds on the first volume and adds incidents from China, India, Italy and Japan. Further at the time the first volume was being written, CCPS was developing a new generation of process safety management elements that were presented as risk based process safety; these elements are addressed in the incidents covered.