High Integrity Systems and Safety Management in Hazardous Industries

Paperback Engels 2025 9780443339455
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High Integrity Systems and Safety Management in Hazardous Industries, Second Edition serves as an overview of best practices as applied to high integrity systems, including their design, maintenance, regulation, and detailed guidance surrounding safety management processes. Across three parts, this book introduces current, key themes for all engineering managers of high-hazard plants, including aging plants, cybersecurity, crisis management, corporate social responsibility, and the significance of local culture to operational safety.

This book uses real-world examples and a multidisciplinary approach to safety case management to bridge the disciplinary gap and help readers understand the latest advice and technology underpinning high integrity systems and safety management. It will be an invaluable guide for industry professionals, researchers, and students at graduate level or above working or researching in hazardous industries.

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ISBN13:9780443339455
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback

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1. Introduction<br><br>Part 1: High integrity safety instrumented systems<br>2. The Design of High-integrity Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Systems for Hazardous Plant Control and Protection<br>3. Cyber Security, Cyber-attack and Cyber-espionage<br>4. The Human–Machine Interface<br>5. Some Case Studies of Software and Microprocessor Failures<br>6. Managing the Safety of Aging I&C Equipment<br><br>Part 2: The history of high-integrity technologies – pressure vessels and computers<br>7. Learning from ignorance: A brief history of pressure vessel integrity and failures<br>8. The second industrial revolution: a brief history of computer development<br><br>Part 3: Safety management<br>9. Introduction: Organisation and safety culture<br>10. Management systems to prevent or mitigate accidents<br>11. The human factor<br>12. Hydrocarbon<br>13. Offshore oil and gas: Piper Alpha and Mumbai High<br>14. BP: Introduction and the history of BP<br>15. Chernobyl and Prelude: Tourism behind the Iron Curtain, 1984<br>16. Toxic release<br>17. Tragedies of the Commons<br>18. Conclusions

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