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Title: Incidents That Define Process Safety (CCPS Concept Books)
ISBN: 0470122048
Author:
Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)
Publicate Date: 2008-04-04
Publish: 2008-04-04
List Price: $89.95
Average Customer Rating: 3.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Sometimes less is more
As a Reliability Engineer working for a major refinery I wanted to like this book. The sections that explain the sequence of events behind refinery safety incidents is excellent, and provides meaningful lessons learned that apply to all processing and manufacturing industries. It is commendable for BP to make public their excellent and culture-forming lessons about Process Safety Management, and I ordered this book expecting it to be an extension or perhaps a summary of the fact-based and well-articulated series of sixteen volumes available from Amazon and IChemE (ISBN 0852955219). What spoiled it for me is their insertion "lessons learned" from historic disasters based on limited research from internet searches (see the Hindenburg summary on page 52 - 56 for example.) I come away with the impression that the authors communicated safety lessons in reverse - that is, they started with a good safety message then tried to fit it into a case history, rather than communicating lessons learned from a failure. This sometimes detracts from an important safety message that would otherwise stand good on its own merit.
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2: great breadth and depth
This book goes a lot further than previous books, in that it looks at incidents outside the process industry, and explores the failings of all elements of process safety. Obviously BP is stepping up the effort to become a recognized leader in process safety (those words were written for them by someone else, weren't they?) Anyway, it's a fascinating and informative read that should arm process safety professionals for scenarios from the boardroom to the confined space.
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