Process Safety for Engineers: An Introduction

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: including management of change In addition, the book presents how Process Safety performance is monitored and sustained. The associated online resources are linked to the latest online CCPS resources and lectures.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures xvii List of Tables xxiii Acronyms and Abbreviations xxv Glossary xxix Acknowledgments xliii Online Materials Accompanying this Book xlv Preface xlvi Chapter 1 Introduction and Regulatory Overview 1 Chapter 2 Risk Based Process Safety 15 Chapter 3 Process Safety Regulations, Codes, and Standards 35 Chapter 4 Fire and Explosion Hazards 53 Chapter 5 Reactive Chemical Hazards 85 Chapter 6 Toxic Hazards 105 Chapter 7 Chemical Hazards Data Sources 119 Chapter 8 Other Hazards 131 Chapter 9 Process Safety Incident Classification 145 Chapter 10 Project Design Basics 159 Chapter 11 Equipment Failure 179 Chapter 12 Hazard Identification 239 Chapter 13 Consequence Analysis 263 Chapter 14 Risk Assessment 311 Chapter 15 Risk Mitigation 337 Chapter 16 Human Factors 355 Chapter 17 Operational Readiness 373 Chapter 18 Management of Change 383 Chapter 19 Operating Procedures, Safe Work Practices, Conduct of Operations, and Operational Discipline 393 Chapter 20 Emergency Management 413 Chapter 21 People Management Aspects of Process Safety Management 427 Chapter 22 Sustaining Process Safety Performance 447 Chapter 23 Process Safety Culture 459 Appendix A – Concluding Exercises 465 Appendix B – Relationship Between Book Content and Typical Engineering Courses 477 Appendix C – Example RAGAGEP List 479 Appendix D – Reactive Chemicals Checklist 481 Appendix E – Classifying Process Safety Events Using API RP 754 3nd Edition 487 Appendix F – Example Process Operations Readings and Evaluations 499 Appendix G – List of CSB Videos 503 Appendix H - Major Process Safety Incident Vs Root Cause Map 509 Index 511

About the Author :
The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) has been the global leader in developing and disseminating information on process safety management and technology since 1985. It has published over 100 books in its process safety guidelines and process safety concepts series and created over 30 training modules through its Safety in Chemical Engineering Education series.