High integrity systems and safety management in hazardous industries
This book is about the engineering management of hazardous industries, such as oil and gas production, hydrocarbon refining, nuclear power and the manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Its scope includes an overview of design standards and processes for high integrity systems, safety managem...
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Oxford, U.K. Waltham, MA
Butterworth-Heimann
[2015]
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| Call Number : | T 55 .T46 2015 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- pt.1. High-integrity safety instrumented systems
- The design of high-integrity instrumentation and control (I&C) systems for hazardous plant control and protection
- Cyber security, cyber-attack and cyber-espionage
- The human-machine interface
- Some case studies of software and microprocessor failures
- Managing the safety of aging I&C equipment
- pt.2. Historical overview of high-integrity technologies
- Learning from ignorance: a brief history of pressure vessel integrity and failures
- The second industrial revolution - a brief history of computing
- pt.3. Safety management
- Introduction: organization and safety culture
- Management systems to prevent or mitigate accidents
- The human factor
- Hydrocarbon processing
- Offshore oil and gas: piper alpha and Mumbai high
- BP
- Chernobyl and Fukushima
- Toxic releases
- Tragedies of the commons
- Conclusion