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Process Safety for Engineers

Familiarizes an engineer new to process safety with the concept of process safety management

In this significantly revised second edition of Process Safety for Engineers: An Introduction, CCPS delivers a comprehensive book showing how Process Safety concepts are used to reduce operational risks. Students, new engineers, and others new to process safety will benefit from this book.

In this updated edition, each chapter begins with a detailed incident case study, provides steps that help address issues, and contains problem sets which can be assigned to students.

The second edition covers:

  • Process Safety: including an overview of CCPS' Risk Based Process Safety
  • Hazards: specifically fire and explosion, reactive chemical, and toxicity
  • Design considerations for hazard control: including Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis
  • Management of operational risk: inclu

    Table of Contents

    Chapter 1 Introduction and Regulatory Overview

    Chapter 2 Risk Based Process Safety

    Chapter 3 Process Safety Regulations, Codes, and Standards

    Chapter 4 Fire and Explosion Hazards

    Chapter 5 Reactive Chemical Hazards

    Chapter 6 Toxic Hazards

    Chapter 7 Chemical Hazards Data Sources

    Chapter 8 Other Hazards

    Chapter 9 Process Safety Incident Classification

    Chapter 10 Project Design Basics

    Chapter 11 Equipment Failure

    Chapter 12 Hazard Identification

    Chapter 13 Consequence Analysis

    Chapter 14 Risk Assessment

    Chapter 15 Risk Mitigation

    Chapter 16 Human Factors

    Chapter 17 Operational Readiness

    Chapter 18 Management of Change

    Chapter 19 Operating Procedures, Safe Work Practices, Conduct of Operations, and Operational Discipline

    Chapter 20 Emergency Management

    Chapter 21 People Management Aspects of Process Safety Management

    Chapter 22 Sustaining Process Safety Performance

    Chapter 23 Process Safety Culture

    Appendix A – Concluding Exercises

    Appendix B – Relationship Between Book Content and Typical Engineering Courses

    Appendix C – Example RAGAGEP List

    Appendix D – Reactive Chemicals Checklist

    Appendix E – Classifying Process Safety Events Using API RP 754 3nd Edition

    Appendix F – Example Process Operations Readings and Evaluations

    Appendix G – List of CSB Videos

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      Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Published 5 April 2022
      ISBN-13 9781119830986
      978-1119830986
      ISBN-10 1119830982
      Also in:
      Chemistry

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Process Safety for Engineers

      Familiarizes an engineer new to process safety with the concept of process safety management

      In this significantly revised second edition of Process Safety for Engineers: An Introduction, CCPS delivers a comprehensive book showing how Process Safety concepts are used to reduce operational risks. Students, new engineers, and others new to process safety will benefit from this book.

      In this updated edition, each chapter begins with a detailed incident case study, provides steps that help address issues, and contains problem sets which can be assigned to students.

      The second edition covers:

      • Process Safety: including an overview of CCPS' Risk Based Process Safety
      • Hazards: specifically fire and explosion, reactive chemical, and toxicity
      • Design considerations for hazard control: including Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis
      • Management of operational risk: inclu

        Table of Contents

        Chapter 1 Introduction and Regulatory Overview

        Chapter 2 Risk Based Process Safety

        Chapter 3 Process Safety Regulations, Codes, and Standards

        Chapter 4 Fire and Explosion Hazards

        Chapter 5 Reactive Chemical Hazards

        Chapter 6 Toxic Hazards

        Chapter 7 Chemical Hazards Data Sources

        Chapter 8 Other Hazards

        Chapter 9 Process Safety Incident Classification

        Chapter 10 Project Design Basics

        Chapter 11 Equipment Failure

        Chapter 12 Hazard Identification

        Chapter 13 Consequence Analysis

        Chapter 14 Risk Assessment

        Chapter 15 Risk Mitigation

        Chapter 16 Human Factors

        Chapter 17 Operational Readiness

        Chapter 18 Management of Change

        Chapter 19 Operating Procedures, Safe Work Practices, Conduct of Operations, and Operational Discipline

        Chapter 20 Emergency Management

        Chapter 21 People Management Aspects of Process Safety Management

        Chapter 22 Sustaining Process Safety Performance

        Chapter 23 Process Safety Culture

        Appendix A – Concluding Exercises

        Appendix B – Relationship Between Book Content and Typical Engineering Courses

        Appendix C – Example RAGAGEP List

        Appendix D – Reactive Chemicals Checklist

        Appendix E – Classifying Process Safety Events Using API RP 754 3nd Edition

        Appendix F – Example Process Operations Readings and Evaluations

        Appendix G – List of CSB Videos

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