Industrial Health category: 2135 books
Process Safety
Key Concepts and Practical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Effective process safety programs consist of three interrelated foundations—safety culture and leadership, process safety systems, and operational discipline—designed to prevent serious injuries and incidents resulting from toxic releases, fires, explosions, and uncontrolled reactions. Each of...
by V. Narayan
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
This unique and practical book describes 42 real-life events and/or situations in the careers of the three authors from which they gained insights into the applicable best practices in maintenance and reliability. The authors explain the underlying philosophies where relevant, drawing on the teachings...
Inherent Safety at Chemical Sites
Reducing Vulnerability to Accidents and Terrorism Through Green Chemistry
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Inherent Safety at Chemical Sites: Reducing Vulnerability to Accidents and Terrorism Through Green Chemistry highlights the use of green chemistry principles to identify and address serious threats and potential consequences caused by accidental and deliberate industrial chemical releases. Through...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Molten Salt Reactors is a comprehensive reference on the status of molten salt reactor (MSR) research and thorium fuel utilization.
There is growing awareness that nuclear energy is needed to complement intermittent energy sources and to avoid pollution from fossil fuels. Light water reactors...
Process and Plant Safety
Applying Computational Fluid Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The safe operation of plants is of paramount importance in the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. Best practice in process and plant safety allows both the prevention of hazards and the mitigation of consequences. Safety Technology is continuously advancing to new levels and Computational...
Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering Principles
for Oil, Gas, Chemical and Related Facilities
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Written by an engineer for engineers, this book is both training manual and on-going reference, bringing together all the different facets of the complex processes that must be in place to minimize the risk to people, plant and the environment from fires, explosions, vapour releases and oil spills....
by Ken Barat
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Understanding Laser Accidents provides a comprehensive reference addressing a wide a spectrum of laser accidents. The under-reporting and misreporting of laser accidents creates a blind spot for the laser management of institutions, laser users and laser safety officers. This book attempts to lift...
by Manoj Dole
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Question Answers is a simple e-Book with all about the latest & Important Machines, Hand Tools & Instruments used in Mechanical Engineering & ITI courses like Machinist, Fitter, Turner, Tool & Die Maker. It contains objective questions with underlined &...
by Jacqueline Jeynes
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
In the same way as the 4Ps of marketing are a fundamental principle of business theory, this book puts forward the 10Ps of Risk Management as a consistent and comprehensive approach to the subject.
The 10Ps of Risk Management offers a holistic approach, bringing together all elements of risk...
The Dose Makes the Poison
A Plain-Language Guide to Toxicology
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This new edition of a widely-read and highly-acclaimed book broadens the scope of its predecessors from a heavy focus on industrial chemicals as toxicants to include drugs, food additives, cosmetics and other types of compounds that people are exposed to daily. Also new to the 3rd edition are newer...
Just Culture
Balancing Safety and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Building on the success of the 2007 original, Dekker revises, enhances and expands his view of just culture for this second edition, additionally tackling the key issue of how justice is created inside organizations. The goal remains the same: to create an environment where learning and accountability...
FRAM: The Functional Resonance Analysis Method
Modelling Complex Socio-technical Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Resilience engineering has consistently argued that safety is more than the absence of failures. Since the first book was published in 2006, several book chapters and papers have demonstrated the advantage in going behind 'human error' and beyond the failure concept, just as a number of serious accidents...
by Sidney Dekker
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
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...
Drift into Failure
From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner’s tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment...