Authors: Nicholas J. Bahr
ISBN-13: 9781560324164, ISBN-10: 1560324163
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: CRC Press
Date Published: August 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
As technological systems become more complex, it becomes increasingly difficult to identify safety hazards and to control their impact. Engineers today are finding that safety and risk touch upon every aspect of any engineered process, from system design all the way through disposal. Employing highly pragmatic examples from a number of industries, System Safety Engineering and Risk Assessment: A Practical Approach provides a comprehensive and easily accessible guide on how to build safety into products as well as into industrial processes.
Using a systems approach, the text discusses the best system safety techniques used in various industries, types of hazard analyses, safety checklists and other safety tools, as well as techniques for investigating accidents. It explains how to set up a data management system for a system safety program, and delves into risk assessment, including ways to conduct a risk evaluation. While the book provides engineers with an efficient reference in a critical area, the clarity of the writing along with the case studies and illustrations makes this book accessible to non-technical professionals needing a how to guide for the safety management of complex systems. It is also used by graduate classes involved with ergonomics and occupational safety as well as engineering.
Using a systems approach, offers engineers a comprehensive, practical guide to building safety into products and industrial processes. Discusses the best system safety techniques used in various industries; types of hazard analyses; safety checklists and other safety tools; techniques for investigating accidents; techniques for setting up a data management system for a system safety program; risk assessment; and ways to conduct a risk evaluation. Includes a generic hazard checklist and a generic facility safety checklist. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | Definitions and Concepts | 5 |
3 | Safety Analysis in Engineering - How is it Used? | 23 |
4 | Safety Management | 31 |
5 | Hazard Analysis | 71 |
6 | Process Safety Analysis | 109 |
7 | Fault Tree Analysis | 127 |
8 | FMECA, Human Factors, and Software Safety | 145 |
9 | Other Techniques | 169 |
10 | Data Sources and Training | 181 |
11 | Accident Reporting, Investigation, and Documentation | 191 |
12 | Risk Assessment | 201 |
13 | Risk Evaluation | 211 |
Appendixes | 233 | |
A | Typical Energy Sources | 233 |
B | Generic Hazard Checklist | 235 |
C | Generic Facility Safety Checklist | 239 |
D | Internet Sources | 245 |
Index | 247 |