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Managing Risk and Reliability of Process Plants

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The book is an important contribution to the risk management of process facilities. It will be valuable to those seeking an accessible introduction to the field and also to practitioners seeking a comprehensive and thoughtful reference. The book's strength lies in the integration of descriptive material and quantitative techniques, supported by lessons learned and case studies. The balanced explanations of theory combined with worked numerical examples and practical guidance on applying risk management methods will assist process plant professionals to better manage risk. The breadth of detailed coverage is impressive. It is rare that a single work can provide good guidance on modelling dust explosions and provide valuable lessons on auditing process facilities.

There has for some considerable time been a need for a compehesive and up to date text book covering the whole range of issues and techniques associated with risk and reliability in the process industries and Mark Tweeddale's book meets this need admirably. Its logical and systematic approach will appeal to the student who intends a career in the process industries and to current professionals whether in Management, Safety,Engineering or Insurance functions associated with these Industries.

This book by Mark Tweeddale is an excellent reference book on risk assessment of process plants. It provides a balanced review of many risk methods and processes. It also extends into risk reduction and management with many practical examples.
I have already used it on four different occasions for confirming risk assessment processes. A 'must have' for all practitioners.

Looking for an outstanding book on Process Safety? Don't look any further. Dr. Mark Tweeddale has written a practical and resource rich book on process safety that will knock your socks off. Are you looking for that plume release explosion formula? It's in there! Are you looking for risk calculations and methods? It is all compiled into this one text. Do you want to understand how safety climate sets the safety culture for an organization and how to improve that? What active steps should management take to improve safety? This book has that information also.

If you're new to the field of safety or you're an professional with years of experience, this text is for you. If you're a student, grab this book! You'll want to keep it right on your shelf for quick reference!

This is a good resource book. It provides a holistic system, with the essential elements and logical links between the elements, for management of hazards and risks of process plants.

Chapter 13 and 14 are extremely useful especially, when the basic concepts, methods and techniques presented in previous chapters are explained.

Chapter 13 provides a `short cut', in terms of time saving, to the exposure of typical causes of and lesion learnt from thoughtfully selected incidents.

Chapter 14 provides a number of case studies and work examples to further demonstrate how hazards can be identified, assessed (qualitatively or quantitatively) and mitigated, using the methods and techniques described in the book.
This book will not only be useful to the professionals who have already worked in management of hazards and risks but also to those who wish to start a career in this area.

The book was written in a simple and easy-to-understand language, and is a very useful and practicable.

In the last 15 years I had the privilege to meet Dr. Tweeddale few times in 3 continents. Some of the meetings were while listening to his presentations in conferences, some were as participant in workshops he ran and one or two included participation in national safety management programs where his ideas showed a clear way how to navigate these programs towards effective targets. All these meetings were illuminated by the vast knowledge , the deep rootd experience in process industry, the bright style of transferring all these subjects to his audience or students. It was just natural that Dr. Tweeddale who is human and nature lover will connect between all these areas and do everything to reduce risks, to manage risks and upgrade safety management in the industry.
Armed with all this information I developed long expectations to have one day a book written by Dr. Tweeddale and now I feel I won even more than I expected. I look at this new book from 3 points of view. The first is from the position of Loss Prevention Manager of hazardous process complex. Almost all the chapters take me through the problems I anticipate in the systems and direct me how to proact and prevent most of them systematically and logic. By no doubt this is a book that can be given to my colleagues to study before a project of risk management and to upgrade the the efficiency and reliability of the projet process and the implementation of its conclusions.
The 2nd. point of view belongs to my experience as a lecturere for risk management in university. The book shows a clear way how to lead such a course and enable the students to have a good reference with a lot of indications of other references accompanied by many examles and learning value accidents descriptions. The third point of view is based on management systems. Many will appreciate that risk management is the core value of safety management systems ( including modules like audit, training, accident investigation and near miss, management of change etc. ) and high safety records can be achieved not only by risk management implementation but by high achievements in all the safety management system. The author didn't overlook the problem and included mainly in chapters 10,11,12 many points related to the comlete system of safety management by thus enabling those who haven't yet dived into the safety management topics to get good feeling of it.

Concluding my writing I can say that the book is very good, interesting and readable and I am proud to say that I completed my reading with interest on my last vacation few days ago. The book left me now with new expectations which are - new book by Dr. Mark Tweeddale this time on the issues of : Safety management, safety culture and safety policy.