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  • Public Safety and Risk Assessment

    Improving Decision Making

    by David J. Ball, Laurence Ball-King ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new phenomenon. Over the past decade health and safety has become a major issue of public interest. There are countless stories of health and safety activities interfering with public life, preventing some beneficial activity from taking place – even ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • What Went Wrong?

    Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided

    by Trevor Kletz ...
    "What Went Wrong?" has revolutionized the way industry views safety. The new edition continues and extends the wisdom, innovations and strategies of previous editions, by introducing new material on recent incidents, and adding an extensive new section that shows how many accidents occur through simple miscommunications within the organization, and how strightforward changes in design can often ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Safety Critical Systems Handbook

    A Straight forward Guide to Functional Safety, IEC 61508 (2010 EDITION) and Related Standards, Including Process IEC 61511 and Machinery IEC 62061 and ISO 13849

    by David J. Smith, Kenneth G. L. Simpson ...
    Safety Critical Systems Handbook: A Straightfoward Guide to Functional Safety, IEC 61508 (2010 Edition) and Related Standards, Including Process IEC 61511 and Machinery IEC 62061 AND ISO 13849, Third Edition, offers a practical guide to the functional safety standard IEC 61508. The book is organized into three parts. Part A discusses the concept of functional safety and the need to express targets ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Risk Management

    by Paul Hopkin ...
    Series series Strategic Success
    Risk management is not just a topic for risk professionals. Managers and directors at all levels must be equipped with an understanding of risk and the tools and processes required to assess and manage it successfully. Risk Management offers a practical and structured approach while avoiding jargon, theory and many of the complex issues that preoccupy risk management practitioners but have little ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Organizational Accidents Revisited

    by James Reason ...
    Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an ’organizational accident’. These are rare but often calamitous events that occur in complex technological systems operating in hazardous circumstances. They stand in sharp contrast to ’individual accidents’ whose damaging consequences are limited to relatively few people or assets. Although they share some common causal ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

    by Sidney Dekker ...
    When faced with a ’human error’ problem, you may be tempted to ask 'Why didn’t these people watch out better?' Or, 'How can I get my people more engaged in safety?' You might think you can solve your safety problems by telling your people to be more careful, by reprimanding the miscreants, by issuing a new rule or procedure and demanding compliance. These are all expressions of 'The Bad Apple ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • HAZOP: Guide to Best Practice

    by Brian Tyler, Frank Crawley ...
    HAZOP: Guide to Best Practice, 3rd Edition describes and illustrates the HAZOP study method, highlighting a variety of proven uses and approaches. This updated edition brings additional experience with which to assist the reader in delivering optimum safety and efficiency of performance of the HAZOP team. HAZOP is the most widely-used technique in the process industries for the identification of ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries

    Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews

    by Dennis P. Nolan ...
    Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries: Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews, Third Edition, describes the responsibilities, methods, and documentation required for the performance of qualitative hazard analysis for industrial and commercial processes, specifically Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), What-If, and Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) reviews. It is a guideline ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • The Feeling of Risk

    New Perspectives on Risk Perception

    by Paul Slovic ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    The Feeling of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the extension of risk perception research into the first decade of this new century.In this collection of important works, Paul Slovic explores the conception of 'risk as feelings' and examines the interaction of feeling and cognition in the perception of risk. He also examines the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Reliability, Maintainability and Risk

    Practical Methods for Engineers including Reliability Centred Maintenance and Safety-Related Systems

    by David J. Smith ...
    Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Eighth Edition, discusses tools and techniques for reliable and safe engineering, and for optimizing maintenance strategies. It emphasizes the importance of using reliability techniques to identify and eliminate potential failures early in the design cycle. The focus is on techniques known as RAMS (reliability, availability, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Dynamic Risk Assessment

    The Practical Guide to Making Risk-Based Decisions with the 3-Level Risk Management Model

    by Stephen Asbury, Edmund Jacobs ...
    Dynamic Risk Assessment is the key tool to support a holistic risk management framework. This book aims to help employers, managers and staff alike to understand how they can effectively integrate dynamic risk assessment into business management processes and systems to improve safety.With tips, examples and solutions throughout, this multi-disciplinary text delivers an effective and comprehensive ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Process Risk and Reliability Management

    by Ian Sutton ...
    In the last twenty years considerable progress has been made in process risk and reliability management, particularly in regard to regulatory compliance. Many companies are now looking to go beyond mere compliance; they are expanding their process safety management (PSM) programs to improve performance not just in safety, but also in environmental compliance, quality control and overall ... Read more

    $179.99 USD