High Integrity Systems and Safety Management in Hazardous Industries

2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-33945-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 470 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomson, J R

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Zuverlässigkeit, Sicherheitstechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Chemische Verfahrenstechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

Part 1: High integrity safety instrumented systems
2. The Design of High-integrity Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Systems for Hazardous Plant Control and Protection
3. Cyber Security, Cyber-attack and Cyber-espionage
4. The Human-Machine Interface
5. Some Case Studies of Software and Microprocessor Failures
6. Managing the Safety of Aging I&C Equipment

Part 2: The history of high-integrity technologies - pressure vessels and computers
7. Learning from ignorance: A brief history of pressure vessel integrity and failures
8. The second industrial revolution: a brief history of computer development

Part 3: Safety management
9. Introduction: Organisation and safety culture
10. Management systems to prevent or mitigate accidents
11. The human factor
12. Hydrocarbon
13. Offshore oil and gas: Piper Alpha and Mumbai High
14. BP: Introduction and the history of BP
15. Chernobyl and Prelude: Tourism behind the Iron Curtain, 1984
16. Toxic release
17. Tragedies of the Commons
18. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Thomson, J R
J.R. (Jim) Thomson is an independent consultant, specializing in high integrity systems and safety management. He has worked in plant operations management, engineering management, and safety management, and has held executive director posts in two international safety consultancies. He has chaired two international conferences on high-integrity safety systems and was awarded the Nuclear Institute's Pinkerton Prize in 2013.