Lessons from Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur [Hardcover]

Trevor Kletz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 17, 1993

It is by avoiding accidents that the process industries will improve their public image. Lessons from Disaster focuses upon the apparent inability of organizations to learn, and retain in long-term, the lessons drawn from accidents.

Incidents of a similar type continue to occur within companies repeatedly. Trevor Kletz illustrates this with detailed cases, which form a gold mine of experience and advice for every engineer. He offers, with his customary vision and imagination, his own advice on how to improve the corporate memory.

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About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing (May 17, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0884151549
• ISBN-13: 978-0884151548
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,326,038 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.