ABSTRACT
The purpose of this book is to familiarize people who work in the Process and Allied Industries with how to approach and conduct incident investigations. The purpose is also to look at ways and means of preventing accidents and using the knowledge from incidents, which include near misses, to prevent accidents. There is an impression that once an incident has occurred it should not recur because, somehow or other, the learning process is both obvious and automatic. Experience shows, on the contrary, that the learning process is by no means automatic and there may well be recurrence unless a proactive approach is adopted.
