Risk analysis and control for industrial processes : gas, oil and chemicals : a system perspective for assessing and avoiding low-probability, high-consequence events /: gas, oil and chemicals : a system perspective for assessing and avoiding low-probability, high-consequence events. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hans Pasman.
• Authors: Pasman, H. J
• Contents: 1. Industrial processing systems, their products and the hazards; 2. Regulation to safeguard against high consequence industrial events; 3. Loss prevention history and developed methods and tools; 4. Trends in society and characteristics of recent industrial disasters; 5. Socio-technical systems, systemic safety, resilience engineering and deeper accident analysis; 6. Human factors, safety culture, management influences, pressures and more; 7. New and improved process and plant risk and resilience analysis tools; 8. Extended process control, operator situation awareness, alarm management; 9. Costs of accidents, costs of safety, risk-based economic decision making: risk management; 10. Goal oriented versus prescriptive regulation; 11. The important role of knowledge and learning; 12. Risk, risk perception, risk communication, risk acceptance: risk governance; 13. Conclusions: the way ahead
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 622.8; Oil fields -- Safety measures; Gas fields -- Safety measures
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128009123; 0128009128
• Related ISBNs: 9780128000571
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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