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High Integrity Systems and Safety Management in Hazardous Industries

Autor J.R Thomson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iun 2025
High Integrity Systems and Safety Management in Hazardous Industries, Second Edition serves as an overview of best practices as applied to high integrity systems, including their design, maintenance, regulation, and detailed guidance surrounding safety management processes. Across three parts, this book introduces current, key themes for all engineering managers of high-hazard plants, including aging plants, cybersecurity, crisis management, corporate social responsibility, and the significance of local culture to operational safety.

This book uses real-world examples and a multidisciplinary approach to safety case management to bridge the disciplinary gap and help readers understand the latest advice and technology underpinning high integrity systems and safety management. It will be an invaluable guide for industry professionals, researchers, and students at graduate level or above working or researching in hazardous industries.

  • Provides an overview of safety management processes as applied to hazardous industries
  • Includes best practices in design, operations, maintenance, and regulation
  • Outlines design standards and processes for high integrity systems
  • Provides real-world examples and case studies across all areas of high integrity systems in hazardous industries
  • Introduces key themes for all engineering managers of high-hazard plants, including aging plants, cybersecurity, crisis management, corporate social responsibility, and the significance of local culture to operational safety
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780443339455
ISBN-10: 0443339457
Pagini: 370
Dimensiuni: 191 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Ediția:2nd edition
Editura: ELSEVIER SCIENCE

Cuprins

1. Introduction

Part 1: High integrity safety instrumented systems
2. The Design of High-integrity Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Systems for Hazardous Plant Control and Protection
3. Cyber Security, Cyber-attack and Cyber-espionage
4. The Human–Machine Interface
5. Some Case Studies of Software and Microprocessor Failures
6. Managing the Safety of Aging I&C Equipment

Part 2: The history of high-integrity technologies – pressure vessels and computers
7. Learning from ignorance: A brief history of pressure vessel integrity and failures
8. The second industrial revolution: a brief history of computer development

Part 3: Safety management
9. Introduction: Organisation and safety culture
10. Management systems to prevent or mitigate accidents
11. The human factor
12. Hydrocarbon
13. Offshore oil and gas: Piper Alpha and Mumbai High
14. BP: Introduction and the history of BP
15. Chernobyl and Prelude: Tourism behind the Iron Curtain, 1984
16. Toxic release
17. Tragedies of the Commons
18. Conclusions

Recenzii

"...easy to read, has plenty of case studies to illustrate the issues being discussed and includes personal experiences.It is this personal element in the book that makes it so accessible. Rating: 4 Stars" --The Chemical Engineer