Process Safety Management books

In 1989, CCPS published the Guidelines for Technical Management of Ghemical Process Safety, which presented a model for Process Safety Management characterized by twelve distinct, essential, and interrelated elements. The Foreword to that book stated ... 

To assist you in looking beyond this book. Chapter 9 addresses the expansion of process safety management programs and techniques to cover transportation and other business activities requiring environmental, health, and safety control. Chapter 9 also raises some of the issues that readers should consider in implementing process safety management internationally. 

This book addresses the design, development, and installation of process safety management systems, but does not address subsequent operation and maintenance of those systems. The book s goal is to help you put together a workable, effective program and put it in place within your com pany or plant. 

Implementing process safety management (PSM) is a process, each of whose phases builds on previous steps. This book s organization reflects this process chronologically. Chapters 2 through 8 of this book present a step-by-step... 

The CCPS model describes process safety management systems in terms of 12 elements and 68 components. The elements and components appear as Table 1.1 on pages 2 and 3 of this book. 

The CCPS book Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems provides guidance on developing PSM audit programs and conducting... 

This book complements previous work by CCPS in describing how to undertake the design, development, and installation of process safety management systems. 

The book begins with a discussion of the theories of error causation and then goes on to describe the various ways in which data can be collected, analyzed, and used to reduce the potential for error. Case studies are used to teach the methodology of error reduction in specific industry operations. Finally, the book concludes with a plan for a plant error reduction program and a discussion of how human factors principles impact on the process safety management system. 

This book was written by Dr. David Embrey of Human Reliability Associates, with the assistance of the CCPS Human Reliability Subcommittee. Section 8.2, Managing Human Error by Design, which deals with the application of human factors principles in the process safety management system, was written by the Human Reliability Subcommittee. 

A wide variety of technical and process safety management issues are referenced throughout these guidelines. Detailed coverage of these issues is outside the scope of this book, and readers are referred to other CCPS books for more information. These include, in particular ... 

Incident investigation is an essential element of every process safety management program. This book presents underlying principles, man-... 

Sutton, Ian S., Process Safety Management, 2d ed., Southwestern Books, Houston, 1997, pp. 52-54. 

Ian Sutton s Process Safety Management, ISBN 1-57502-528-1, Southwestern Books, Houston, Texas, 1997. This book is distributed by Southwestern Books, 2437 Bay Area Blvd. Ste 195, Houston, TX 77058. For more information the e-mail address is swbooks iwl.net. Telephone (281) 488-7767. 

Mr. Sutton developed this book to help readers meet the requirements of the OSHA Process Safety Management Standard and to help companies meet not only the letter of the law, but also the spirit. The text has a vitality and insight that is not found in committee-written books. The cost is about 60. 

Countless new publications on process safety have been written since OSHA first published its Process Safety Management Law in 1992. Independent, individual authors and various organizations, such as the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Center for Chemical Process Safety, helped write these books. Very few individuals would have the time to read each new text. The books listed below were skimmed through, read, or studied and found useful, but they may not be the best books on the market. 

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. 

This document is intended as a typical guideline and reference book that may be applied at petroleum, petrochemical and chemical facilities. It is suggested that this document is used as a practical reference to prepare the safety review requirements for these and related industries, and their process safety management systems. 

The AIChE s Center for Chemical Process Safety developed a how to type of book that addresses most of the concerns of OSHA s proposed Process Safety Management standard and all of the concerns of Management of Change. This book is useful to the frontline supervisor, the second-level supervisor, superintendent, and the manager of a facility that manufactures, handles, or stores hazardous chemicals. It is for the on-site organization that is developing the specific procedures of a MOC program. 

Pick up a dictionary and find the entry for procedure. One definition is a particular course or mode of action. A simple statement, but to procedure users, writers, and managers concerned with process safety, the word procedure impUes much more. The Center for Chemical Process Safety s approach to Process Safety Management relies on written procedures to document both hands-on operations and maintenance activities as well as to describe the Process Safety Management S5retem itself. This book was written to help select and implement actions that will... 

Will effective procedures guarantee that your plant can avoid all accidents No, they won t and they can t. However, as a component of your process safety management system, effective use of procedures can reduce the ntimber of accidents caused by hiunan error. Sound management practices encourage written procedures, and regulations now demand them for many processes. The purpose of this book is to make your procedurewriting efforts as productive as possible and to create accurate, efective procedures. 

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