Kletz, Trevor books

Kletz, Trevor A., What Went Wrong Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters, 4 th ed., ISBN 0-88415-920-5, Gulf Professional Publishing, Houston, 1998. This is an easy-to-read book and the best-selling process safety book of all time. In a few chemical plants, it is required reading for new operations supervisors. 

Kletz, Trevor A., Learning From Accidents in Industry, ISBN 0-408-02696-0, Butterworths, London and Boston, 1988. The aims of this book are to show how we can learn more by analyzing accidents and to be better able to prevent similar accidents from occurring. It is another of Trevor Kletzs easy-to-read, informative books. 

Kletz, Trevor A., Plant Design for Safety—A User-Friendly Approach, Hemisphere, New York, 1990. Kletz s easy-to-read, short book argues that additional safety can be achieved with safer substitute materials, lower inventories, lower temperatures, and lower pressures. 

One particularly troublesome issue to do with workforce reductions is that, when cuts are made, it is often the personnel with more experience who leave. Such people, being older, are more likely to be qualified for early retirement or the package. Also, their departure leads to a greater reduction in costs because they are paid more than the younger employees. Unfortunately, this means that the newer people have fewer gray-haired mentors to monitor their actions and decisions. This loss of experience problem is not new— indeed it is the theme of Trevor Kletz s book. Lessons from Disaster—How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur (Kletz, 1993). 

Are We Reliving Past Incidents was the title of the Febraaiy 2014 issue of the CCPS Beacon [13]. The article starts by quoting the late Trevor Kletz s book title Lessons from Disaster How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur. The carbon bed fire that interrupted lives in Georgia was discussed earlier. The incident was very well documented. 

Despite the lack of interest in human factors issues in the CPI in the past, the situation is now changing. In 1985, Trevor Kletz published his landmark book on human error in the CPI An Engineer s View of Human Error (revised in 1991). Several other books by the same author e.g., Kletz (1994b) have also addressed the issue of human factors in case studies. Two other publications have also been concerned specifically with human factors in the process industry Lorenzo (1990) was commissioned by the Chemical Manufacturers Association in the USA, and Mill (1992), published by the U.K. Institution of Chemical Engineers. In 1992, CCPS and other organizations sponsored a conference on Human Factors and Human Reliability in Process Safety (CCPS, 1992c). This was further evidence of the growing interest in the topic within the CPI. 

Bhopal exhibits several features of maladministration of chemical industry familiar to many who work in it on other continents. Construction of a fine chemical plant on a green field site soon causes local planners to regard the surrounding area as suitable for cheap high-density housing. As Trevor Kletz has reiterated in numerous books, add-on safety features, of which there were many, are a menace. If multiple, any one will be turned off as soon as it causes trouble or expense, and reliance be placed on the others which may be ill-designed and will, in any case, be later turned off in full confidence that the first is still working. 

Just like any other piece of important operating equipment, the operator must understand the details of the equipment and its limitations. Trevor Kletz offers many excellent short stories in his latest book, Still Going Wrong. He provides cameo descriptions of process-plant errors with a message. [2]... 

Trevor Kletz is the most published Loss Prevention Engineer of all time with nine process safety books and over 100 technical articles. Professor Kletzs topics in this chapter assume that some of the modern synthetic materials we use daily have been available since the dawn of time and that some ordinary materials are being examined in a sort of hazards review session. These are Kletzs most classic, clever illustrations of how we can sometimes be overzealous and too narrow in our focus on a problem. 

The HAZOP Study is a very popular predictive method which was developed in the Mond Division of Imperial Chemical Industries during the 1960s. A HAZOP (Hazard and Operability) study is an analysis method for identifying hazards and problems which prevent efficient operation. Trevor Kletz was an early promoter of the HAZOP Method and in one of his recent books [18], he states ... 

Look around the bookshelves. There are many good recent books and articles on Chemical Process Safety theory and procedures. These texts offer sound advice on identifying chemical process hazard analysis, training, audits, and guidelines books addressing the elements of OSHA s Process Safety Management Law. However, only a few people such as Trevor A. Kletz offer many authentic case histories that provide opportunities to learn fundamentals in process safety. 

I assisted Trevor Kletz in teaching a two-day course entitled Chemical Plant Accidents—A Workshop on Causes and Preventions. We periodically taught the course for six years, and then he encouraged me to consider writing this book on Plant Modifications. Jayne Holder, formerly of Butterworth, was extremely supportive with all my concerns and questions. 

Trevor Kletz, in his book An Engineers View of Human Error, makes the following statement ... 

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