ABSTRACT

Effective process safety programs consist of three interrelated foundations—safety culture and leadership, process safety systems, and operational discipline—designed to prevent serious injuries and incidents resulting from toxic releases, fires, explosions, and uncontrolled reactions. Each of these foundations is important and one missing element can cause poor process safety performance.

Process Safety: Key Concepts and Practical Approaches takes a systemic approach to the traditional process safety elements that have been identified for effective process safety programs. More effective process safety risk reduction efforts are achieved when these process safety systems, based on desired activities and results rather than by specific elements, are integrated and organized in a systems framework. This book provides key concepts, practical approaches, and tools for establishing and maintaining effective process safety programs to successfully identify, evaluate, and manage process hazards.

It introduces process safety systems in a way that helps readers understand the purpose, design, and everyday use of overall process safety system requirements. Understanding what the systems are intended to achieve, understanding why they have been designed and implemented in a specific way, and understanding how they should function day-to-day is essential to ensure continued safe and reliable operations.

part I|103 pages

Key Concepts of Process Safety

chapter 1|23 pages

Introduction to Process Safety

chapter 3|26 pages

Process Safety Systems

chapter 4|23 pages

Operational Discipline

part II|111 pages

Practical Approaches for Designing Safe Processes

chapter 5|24 pages

Design Safe Processes

chapter 6|40 pages

Identify and Assess Process Hazards

chapter 7|45 pages

Evaluate and Manage Process Risks

part III|143 pages

Practical Approaches for Implementing Process Safety

chapter 8|19 pages

Operate Safe Processes

chapter 9|31 pages

Maintain Process Integrity and Reliability

chapter 10|18 pages

Change Processes Safely

chapter 11|48 pages

Manage Incident Response and Investigation

chapter 12|23 pages

Monitor Process Safety Program Effectiveness

part IV|22 pages

Practical Approaches for Achieving Process Safety Excellence

chapter 14|6 pages

Commit to a Safe Future