Critical Aspects of Safety and Loss Prevention

by Trevor A. Kletz

Overview

Critical Aspects of Safety and Loss Prevention reflects the author's managerial experience and safety operations experience. This book is a collection of almost 400 thoughts and observations on safety and loss prevention, illustrated by accounts of accidents. The items, mostly short, are arranged alphabetically and cross-references are provided. The accident reports in this volume highlight the ignorance, incompetence and folly but also originality and inventiveness in the cause of accident prevention. This book also argues on the importance of loss prevention over the traditional safety approach. This book will be of interest to persons who work in design, operations and maintenance and to safety professionals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483192352
Publisher:	Butterworth-Heinemann
Publication date:	06/28/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	9 MB

Table of Contents

Critical Aspects of Safety and Loss PreventionIntroductionChapter 1. A Abbeystead Abdication, management by Aberfan Absolute requirements Abstractions Acceptable risk Access Accident Accident chains Accident investigation Accident-prone Accident reports Accident statistics Accuracy Acids Action Action replays Acts of God Add-ons Addresses Adequacy Advice Aerosol cans Air Air coolers Airlines Alara Alarms Alarp Alcohol Alertness Alternatives Amalgamation Amateurism Ammonia Anaesthetics Analysis Anomalies Area classification Arsenic Arson Asbestos Assessment Assumptions Astonishment Asymptote Attenuation Attitude Audits Australia Auto-ignition temperature Automation Aversion to risk Avoidance of riskChapter 2. B Back flow Batch processes Benzene Bhopal Bible Big plants (Are things as) Black as they seem? Black books Blame BLEVE Blind Blind-eyes Boilers Boil-over Bolts Books on process safety and loss prevention safety) Books Boredom Breaking the rules Bretherick Bridges Brunner Mond Buckets Buck-passing Buildings BurnsChapter 3. C Cancer Canvey Island Care Carelessness Caring Cause Cause and effect Caution Centrifuges Chains Challenger (absence of) Change Change – new problems Change – old problems Check lists Chemstar Chernobyl Chlorine Choice of problems Chokes CIMAH Regulations Cleanliness Codes of practice Cognitive dissonance Coincidences Cold readings Combustible gas detectors Combustion Common mode failures Communication Comparisons Complacency Compressed air Compromise Compressor houses Computers Confidence limits Confidentiality Construction Containers Contamination Context Contractors Contradictory instructions Control 'Controversial chemicals' Corner cutting Corrosion Corrosive chemicals COSHH Regulations Cost estimates Cost of saving a life Costs Cranes Creativity Creep Criminals Criteria Culture Custom and practice Cyanates Cyanides Cyclohexane CylindersChapter 4. D Damage control Danger Dangerous occurrence Data Dead-ends Debts Decisions Defense in depth Definitions Demolition Design Deterministic accidents Detail Diesel engines Difference of opinion Dioxin Disbelief Discretion Dismantling Dispersion Distillation Distraction Diversity Dolls Domino effects Drains Drugs Drums Du Pont Dusts and powdersChapter 5. E Early involvement in design Effects Electrical area classification Electricity Emergencies Emergency equipment Emergency isolation valves Employer's responsibilities Empty vessels Enforcement Entry Equipment Ε shift jobs Evangelicalism, evangelism Exchanging one problem for another (loss of) Expectation of life Expenditure proposals Experience (learning from others') Experience (limitations of) Experience Experts Expert systems Explosions Explosion venting Extrapolation Extravagance Eyebolts Eye protectionChapter 6.