Loss Prevention Engineer

Loss Prevention Engineers and Safety Professionals have repeated stories in Louisiana about the misapplication of steam on one-ton chlorine cylinders. Two similar stories were discussed at inter-plant loss prevention meetings a couple of decades ago. Naturally, the details are now a little vague but the stories were from companies located over 100 miles apart in two separate petro-chemical sections of the state. 

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. 

Jeff Joseck is a staff engineer with Union Carbide. He developed this clever quiz and kindly offered it for publication. It stimulates the Process Safety Engineer or the Loss Prevention Engineer to think about acceptable and minimal risks. A few minor changes were made in Jeff s quiz to better fit the style of this chapter. 

Prevention Engineer. Any resulting changes are documented and retained five years in the Loss Prevention Engineering Prooftest Change file. 

The Project Manager should be responsible for handling and resolving recommendations. He may designate a person to handle the day to day activities for this function. Typically a risk engineering or loss prevention engineer is nominated for this task. 

In an ideal world, an easy-to-contact, responsive modifications man would be available for questions generated in Operations, Engineering, and Maintenance. This modifications man could be a Process Safety Engineer, Loss Prevention Engineer, or a mechanical or chemical engineer who has been trained in chemical process safety. Preferably, this individual would be an on-site plant employee, but he could be a company regional engineer, a property insurance consultant, or a contractor. The modifications man must understand basic loss-prevention principles of proper layout. 

Finally, we will illustrate some of the points discussed by describing the development of a prototype expert system for hazardous materials classification and loss prevention engineering decision support. 

The acceptance of expert systems in process control applications and in risk assessment, risk management and loss prevention engineering will depend to a large extent on the degree to which verification and validation questions are addressed early on in the design of the systems. 

An individnal who, by virtne of specialized knowledge and skill, training, and edncational accomplishments, identifies hazards and develops appropriate controls for these hazards, that when effectively implemented, prevent occnpational injury, illness, and property damage. These individuals may also have been awarded or earned the status of Certified Safety Professional by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals. See also Loss Prevention Engineer (LPE) Safety Professional Safety Representative. 

An individual that is charged with monitoring and assessing safety hazards or unsafe conditions, and developing and advising measures to prevent an incident from occurring. They may also be called Safety Officers. See also Loss Prevention Engineer (LPE). 

J.M. Haight (Ed.), Handbook of Loss Prevention Engineering, Wiley-VCH, Weinhwim, Germany, 2013. 

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