Written by the author of "What Went Wrong?" and "An Engineer's View of Human Error", this book examines some of the unforeseen incidents which have occurred in computer-controlled systems, and suggests how such incidents can be made less likely in the future. The text includes how HAZOP studies can be used to detect hazards in computer-controlled systems.
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Trevor Kletz, OBE, D.Sc., F.Eng., a process safety consultant, has published more than a hundred papers and nine books on loss prevention and process safety, including most recently Lessons From Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur and Computer Control and Human Error. His experience includes thirty-eight years with Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., where he served as a production manager and safety adviser in the petrochemical division, and membership in the department of chemical engineering at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, England. He is currently senior visiting research fellow at Loughborough University and an officer of the Order of the British Empire.
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After graduating in chemistry at Liverpool University in 1944 Trevor Kletz joined Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) and spent eight years in research, sixteen in production management and the last fourteen as safety adviser to the Petrochemicals Division. In 1978 he was appointed an Industrial (part-time) Professor at Loughborough University, UK. On retiring from ICI in 1982 he joined the University full-time; in 1986 he became a visiting fellow and is now a visiting professor, and also an adjunct professor at the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University.
He has written ten books and many papers on loss prevention and process safety and the 5th edition of his best-selling book, What Went Wrong?, was published in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the Royal Society of Chemistry (all UK) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997.
He has written ten books and many papers on loss prevention and process safety and the 5th edition of his best-selling book, What Went Wrong?, was published in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the Royal Society of Chemistry (all UK) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997.
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I have classified the incidents I described as follows, through some of them fall into more than one category: Equipment faults: the equipment does not perform as expected (Figure 1.1) (page 5) Most of the failures would have been less serious if the systems as a whole had been designed to minimize the effects of foreseeable hardware failures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
programmable electronic systems, print station, coat weight, drying cabinet, guide words, equipment faults, solvent vapour, software errors, operability studies, exhaust flow, flow switch, print head Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Institution of Chemical Engineers, New York, Chemical Engineering Progress, Implementation Selection, Specification Definition, Loss Prevention Bulletin, More More, Operations Progress, Process Safety, The Daily Telegraph New!
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I have classified the incidents I described as follows, through some of them fall into more than one category: Equipment faults: the equipment does not perform as expected (Figure 1.1) (page 5) Most of the failures would have been less serious if the systems as a whole had been designed to minimize the effects of foreseeable hardware failures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
programmable electronic systems, print station, coat weight, drying cabinet, guide words, equipment faults, solvent vapour, software errors, operability studies, exhaust flow, flow switch, print head Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Institution of Chemical Engineers, New York, Chemical Engineering Progress, Implementation Selection, Specification Definition, Loss Prevention Bulletin, More More, Operations Progress, Process Safety, The Daily Telegraph New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Health and Safety (Statutory Instruments) by The Stationery Office on page 42, page 79, and page 80
- Computers and Thought by Edward A. Feigenbaum on page 113
- A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle on page 45
- Arthur Conan Doyle (Literature and Life) by Don Richard Cox on page 45
- The mythical man-month and other essays on software engineering by Frederick P Brooks on page 112
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- Dispelling Chemical Engineering Myths (Chemical Engineering) by Trevor A. Kletz on 4 pages
- Praxiswissen der chemischen Verfahrenstechnik: Handbuch für Chemiker und Verfahrensingenieure (VDI-Buch / Chemische Technik / Verfahrenstechnik) (German Edition) by Daniel S. Christen on page 654, and Back Matter
- Process Plants: A Handbook for Inherently Safer Design (Chemical Engineering) by Trevor A. Kletz on page 152
- Engineering Disasters: Lessons to be Learned by Don Lawson on page 295
- Practical Industrial Safety, Risk Assessment and Shutdown Systems (IDC Technology) by Dave Macdonald BSc (Eng) on page 28
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