2nd Edition

Health, Safety, and Accident Management in the Chemical Process Industries A Complete Compressed Domain Approach

By Ann Marie Flynn, Louis Theodore Copyright 2002
    680 Pages
    by CRC Press

    676 Pages
    by CRC Press

    "Analyzes health and hazard risk assessment in commercial, industrial, and refining industries. Emphasizes legal requirements, emergency planning and response, safety equipment, process implementation, and occupational and environmental protection exposure guidelines. Presents applicatoins and calculations for risk analysis of real systems, as well as numerous end-of-chapter examples and references."

    Introduction: past history; legislation; emergency planning and response. Process and plant accidents: process fundamentals; process equipment; classification of accidents; fires, explosions, toxic emissions and hazardous spills; process applications. Health risk assessment: introduction to health risk assessment; health hazard identification; dose-response; exposure assessment; health risk analysis and characterization. Hazard risk assessment: introduction to hazard risk assessment; event/hazard identification; accident causes and probability; accident consequences and evaluation; hazard risk analysis. Quantitative hazard risk assessment: hazard risk assessment fundamentals; hazard risk assessment calculations; hazard risk analysis applications.

    Biography

    Flynn, Ann Marie; Theodore, Louis