Understanding processing, Preface

In understanding this chapter and its contents, the attention of the reader is drawn back to the preface of this document and in particular the fifth section of the preface How to understand and use this document . The techniques and associated emission and/or consumption levels, or ranges of levels, presented in this chapter have been assessed through an iterative process involving the following steps ... 

Part I introduces the reader to the system safety process, how it evolved, how it can be managed, and how it relates to the current practice of the industrial safety and health profession. In fact, on completion of Part I, the reader shall have developed a clear understanding of this relationship and, quite possibly, have developed an interest in the further pursuit of the system safety profession. As noted in the Preface, the information provided here is introductory in scope, intended to merely acquaint the reader with the system safety approach to hazard analysis and hazard risk reduction. 

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