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:	Elsevier Science
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 ? 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. F Factories Acts, Factory Inspectors Fail-safe Failures Failure rates False alarms Falsification Familiarity Fatal accident rate Fate Feedback to design Fencing Fermi estimates Feyzin Fin-fans Fire Flame traps Flammable atmospheres Flare stacks Flashing liquids Flexes Flixborough Foam-over, froth-over Follow-up Folly Food Force Forecasts Foresight Forgetfulness Forgotten knowledge Fractional dead time Friendly plants Froth-over Fugitive emissions Full-scale deflection FurnacesChapter 7. G Gas detection Gas dispersion Giving up Glass Good practice Grimaldi Guarding Guidance notes 'Gut feel'Chapter 8. H Hazard analysis (Hazan) Hazard and operability study (Hazop) Hazard and risk Hazardous substances Health and Safety at Work Act Heavy oils Higee Hired equipment History of safety Honesty Hoses Hubris Human failing Humour Hydrogen HydrogenationChapter 9. I latrogenesis ICI Ideas Identification of equipment Identification of hazards Ignition Ignorance Impatience Improvement notice Incentive schemes Inconsistency Indices of woe Industrial hygiene Inert gas Influences Information Inherently safer design Innovation Inhibitors Inspection Instructions Instruments Insularity Insulation Insurance Intangibles Intensification Interference Isle of Man Ionizing radiations Isolation InvestigationChapter 10. J Joints Joint ventures Judgment Chapter 11. K King's Cross Knock-on effects Knowledge Knowledge of what we don't knowChapter 12. L Labels Language Large plants (better) Late than never Law Layered accident investigations Layout and location Lead Leaks Leak tests Learning Level glasses Life Limitations Liquefied petroleum gas Location Loss Loss control Loss prevention Lost knowledge Lost-time accident rate LPG LyingChapter 13. M Machinery Magic charm to prevent accidents Maintenance Major hazard Management Manliness Materials of construction Measurement of safety Meccano or dolls? Mechanical accidents Memory Methods of working Methyl isocyanate Mexico city Minimum standards Misquotations Modern standards Modifications Modifications after an accident Money Morality Motivation MythsChapter 14. N Near-miss 'Need to know' Never New hazards New processes Nitrogen Non-events Non-return valves Non-sparking tools 'Normal Accidents' Nothing Novelty Nuclear power Nuts and boltsChapter 15. O Occupational disease Old days Old equipment Old plants and modern standards Old-timer Operations research Optional extras Other industries Overreaction Over-reporting Oxidation OxygenChapter 16. P Packaged deals Panic Patience Penny-pinching Perception of risk Permits-to-work Persistence Perspective Persuasion Philosophers' stone Photography Pipe failures Piper Alpha Plastics Platitudes Plugs Poisons Policy Polymerization Poor equipment Posters Powders Practicable Practice Pressure Pressure tests Pressure vessels Priorities Probabilities Probit Problems Procedures Process safety Production or safety? Prohibition Notice (self-fulfilling) Prophecies Prosecution Protective clothing Protective equipment Publication Pumps (accidental) PurificationChapter 17. Q Qualitative QuantitativeChapter 18. R Radioactivity Railways Random accidents Reactions Reactors 'Reasonable care' 'Reasonably practicable' Recognition Redundancy Recognition Regulations Reliability Reliability data Relief devices Remedies Removing equipment or procedures Reorganization Repeated accidents Research Responsibility (legal) Responsibility (managerial) Responsibility (personal) Responsibility Retribution Reverse flow Risk Risk compensation Risk criteria Risk management Risk perception Rotameters Rules and regulations Runaway reactionsChapter 19. S Sabotage Safety 'Safety first' Safety professionals Sampling Scale-up Scrap Secrecy Security Selling safety Serendipity Service lines Seveso Shipping Short cuts Sight glasses Simple causes Simplicity Single-Stream plants (visit accident) Sites Sleeping beauties Slop-over Sloppy thinking Small companies Smoke Smoke screens Smoking Software Solvents Spark-resistant tools Stacks Standards (five) Star Grading System Statistics Static electricity Steam Storage Strength of equipment Stress Substitution Success Summerland Surprise Surveys (treating) Symptoms instead of diseases System accidents Systems of workChapter 20. T Take-over Talebearing Tankers Tanks Tay Bridge Team working Temporary jobs Tests 'They' Thinking Threads Three Mile Island Threshold limit values Tidiness Time and money Timebombs Time of response Time span of forgetfulness Tolerable risk Tolerance Tools Top event Total loss control Toxicity Trade-off Tradition Training Transport Trapped pressure Traps Triangles TripsChapter 21. U Underestimated hazards Under-reporting Unexpected hazards Uniformity United Kingdom United States Unlikely hazards Useless equipment and operations UtilitiesChapter 22. V Vacuum Valves Variety Vents Ventilation Vessels VirusesChapter 23. W Water Welding Whistle blowing Will and might Windows Wolves in sheep's clothing Working practiceChapter 24. Z Zeebrugge