Publication date: 2006-08-30
Dewey code: 539
Price: $40.50
Review Technical and Functional Specifications for Border Monitoring Equipment: Technical Guidance Reference Manual (Iaea Nuclear Security) / Intl Atomic Energy Agency:Illicit trafficking of nuclear and other radioactive material has been an issue of concern since the first seizures in the early 1990s. By the end of 2004, IAEA member states had confirmed 540 cases with another 500 unconfirmed. This publication contains a set of technical specifications that can be used in the design testing, qualifying and purchasing of border radiation monitoring equipment, drawing on work undertaken through an IAEA co-ordinated research project as well as relevant national and international standards.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-08-03
Dewey code: 620.86
List Price: $100.95
Price: $76.67
Review Hazard Analysis Techniques for System Safety / Wiley-Interscience:A practical guide to identifying hazards using common hazard analysis techniques Many different hazard analysis techniques have been developed over the past forty years. However, there is only a handful of techniques that safety analysts actually apply in their daily work. Written by a former president of the System Safety Society and winner of the Boeing Achievement and Apollo Awards for his safety analysis work, Hazard Analysis Techniques for System Safety explains, in detail, how to perform the most commonly used hazard analysis techniques employed by the system safety engineering discipline. Focusing on the twenty-two most commonly used hazard analysis methodologies in the system safety discipline, author Clifton Ericson outlines the three components that comprise a hazard and describes how to use these components to recognize a hazard during analysis. He then examines each technique in sufficient detail and with numerous illustrations and examples, to enable the reader to easily understand and perform the analysis. Techniques covered include: * Preliminary Hazard List (PHL) Analysis * Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA) * Subsystem Hazard Analysis (SSHA) * System Hazard Analysis (SHA) * Operating and Support Hazard Analysis (O&SHA) * Health Hazard Assessment (HHA) * Safety Requirements/Criteria Analysis (SRCA) * Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) * Event Tree Analysis (ETA) * Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) * Fault Hazard Analysis * Functional Hazard Analysis * Sneak Circuit Analysis (SCA) * Petri Net Analysis (PNA) * Markov Analysis (MA) * Barrier Analysis (BA) * Bent Pin Analysis (BPA) * HAZOP Analysis * Cause Consequence Analysis (CCA) * Common Cause Failure Analysis (CCFA) * MORT Analysis * Software Safety Assessment (SWSA) Written to be accessible to readers with a minimal amount of technical background, Hazard Analysis Techniques for System Safety gathers, for the first time in one source, the techniques that safety analysts actually apply in daily practice. Both new and seasoned analysts will find this book an invaluable resource for designing and constructing safe systems- in short, for saving lives.
Authors
- Kenneth G. L. Simpson
- David J. Smith
Publication date: 2004-07-27
Dewey code: 363.11062094
List Price: $107.00
Price: $77.04
Review Functional Safety, Second Edition: A Straightforward Guide to Applying IEC 61508 and Related Standards / Butterworth-Heinemann:Electrical, electronic and programmable electronic systems, such as emergency shut down systems and railway signalling systems, increasingly carry out safety functions to guard workers and the public against injury or death and the environment against pollution. The international standard IEC 61508 has been developed as a generic standard that applies to all these systems irrespective of their application. IEC 61508 is seen by many professionals as complex. This book overcomes that complexity by introducing the standard in the context of safety in general before moving on to provide practical advice about implementing it and obtaining certification. It also explains how IEC 61508 relates to second tier standards and related guidance, such as IEC 61511, 61513, UKOOA, ISA S84. 01 and DIN standards, among others. Throughout the text, the authors illustrate their explanations with examples to which the answers are supplied in the appendix. Four case studies with further exercises set the information in context. Templates and checklists for drawing up your own implementation plan and information on self-certification are also provided. As Functional Safety, the standard, is applicable to many industries, Functional Safety, the book, in its previous edition has proved to be an invaluable reference for professionals from a variety of industries, such as project/instrumentation/design/control engineers as well as safety professionals in oil and gas, chemical, rail, power generation, nuclear, aircraft, and automotive industries. [+]The new edition includes a new chapter on IEC 61511, the process sector standard, published since the first edition. The text has been updated throughout in light of the authors' recent experience and two case studies have been added. Dr. David J Smith, BSc, PhD, CEng, FIEE, HonFSaRS, FIQA, MIGasE, has been directly concerned with reliability, safety and software quality for 30 years. He has written a number of books on the subject as well as numerous papers. His PhD thesis was on the subject of reliability prediction accuracy and common cause failure. He chairs the IGasE panel which develops its guidelines on safety-related systems (now in its third edition). He has also made contributions to IEC 61508. Kenneth G. L. Simpson, MPhil, FIEE, FInstMC, MIGasE, has been associated with safety-related systems design and also with their assessment for 25 years. He is a member of the IEC 61508 drafting committee and also of the I Gas E panel which writes the gas industry guidance. Following a career in aerospace, Ken has spent 20 years in the control system industry and is a Director of Silvertech International plc, a leading designer of safety and control systems. He has written a number of papers on the topic and gives frequent talks. * A practical guide to achieving functional safety standards in safety-critical systems* Makes a complex standard easy to follow and sets it in the context of risk and safety* Provides support for those undertaking self-assessment, which can save money spent on large consultancy fees.
Creator: Rupert Purchase
Publication date: 1994-03
Dewey code: 540
Price: $119.00
Review The Laboratory Environment (Special Publication) / Royal Society of Chemistry:
Publication date: 1997-07-08
Dewey code: 658.382
List Price: $105.95
Price: $91.21
Review Managing Worker Safety and Health for Excellence (Occupational Health & Safety) / Wiley:II exposure to health and safety hazards in the workplace can be prevented. But only if the systems for initiating and monitoring controls are as carefully planned and implemented as the controls themselves. For proof of this, look no further than the participants in OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP). Meeting the VPP requirements and following guidance provided by OSHA’s onsite evaluations, VPP members maintain comprehensive, practical,verifiable safety systems involving employees and managers at all levels. The results have been spectacular—members routinely report lost time injury rates of 50 to 80 percent below industry averages. These remarkable voluntary programs were developed and managed by Margaret Richardson for OSHA. Now Richardson uses her experience with VPP Star sites and clients pursuing excellence to take you beyond the VPP requirements to levels achieved by the best of the best. is the first how-to guide to establishing effective management systems for achieving excellence in worker protection from workplace hazards-a chance to benchmark the industry leaders from the comfort of your favorite chair. is based on OSHA guidelines for managing worker safety and health and on Richardson’s considerable hands-on experience with OSHA and Department of Energy Star sites, as well as client worksites in some of the largest firms in the world. Step-by-step, the book shows you how to Achieve a closed safety management loop with clearly established policies, goals, objectives, assignments, and accountability procedures Ensure total worker involvement by fostering a "safety culture" where employees feel ownership of the safety/health program Identify and control hazards with a "hazard inventory" plus other reports, investigation techniques, and analyses to pinpoint all kinds of problems—even those that often elude controls Train all levels of employees, from workers and supervisors to middle and top managers, to understand their crucial roles in the program Better safety management up-front means fewer on-site accidens and work-related illnesses plus improved employee morale, more efficient operations, and better public relations. [+]If you are responsible for creating, teaching, managing, or monitoring sophisticated safety systems, or if you serve on a safety committee overseeing safety systems, provides the information you need to do the job right.
Edition: 3
Publication date: 1996-03-25
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $116.95
Price: $99.95
Review Human Error Reduction and Safety Management (Industrial Health & Safety) / Wiley:Human Error Reduction and Safety Management Dan Petersen Now in an expanded and updated Third Edition, Human Error Reduction and Safety Management illustrates how managers, by controlling the physical and psychological situations under which workers operate, can modify employees’ behavior in such a way as to reduce error, accidents, and consequently on-the-job injuries and illnesses. While retaining the previous editions’ focus on the role of line management in maximizing safety in the workplace, the book also details the role that upper and middle management must play in implementing programs that can reduce system-caused human error. The Third Edition contains a wealth of new, updated, and expanded information that incorporates Dan Petersen’s comprehensive knowledge and innovative theories, includingA revised model of accident causation that exemplifies the processes and procedures of today’s safety technologyExpanded treatment of the managerial sources of errorA new chapter on the ways in which the "culture" of an organization determines what methods will and will not succeedA discussion of ergonomics — how design causes error and cumulative trauma disordersInsight into how to reduce psychological overload on the jobNew material on risk assessment techniquesAn original, multidisciplinary approach to workplace safety that integrates safety management, business management, psychology, and ergonomics, the Third Edition of Human Error Reduction and Safety Management is required reading for every safety manager, safety and health professional, and quality and risk control manager.
Authors
- Daniel A. Crowl
- Joseph F. Louvar
Publication date: 2001-10-26
Dewey code: 660.2804
List Price: $135.00
Price: $76.50
Review Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall International Series in the Physical and Chemical Engineering Sciences) / Prentice Hall PTR:For upper level undergraduate or graduate level Chemical or Mechanical Engineering courses in chemical process safety, as well as for chemical and mechanical engineers in the beginning of their careers who are interested in improving chemical process safety. It can also serve as a guide for anyone interested in learning about chemical process safety, including high school teachers, firemen, environmentalists, OSHA regulators, EPA regulators, and others. The only book designed as a text for teaching chemical process safety, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the essential technical fundamentals of chemical process safety. Its emphasis on fundamentals is intended to help both the student and the practicing scientist to understand the concepts and to apply them in an appropriate manner.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-07-09
Dewey code: 660.2804
List Price: $92.95
Price: $75.14
Review Managing Risk and Reliability of Process Plants / Gulf Professional Publishing:There is much specialist material written about different elements of managing risks of hazardous industries, such as hazard identification, risk analysis, and risk management. Managing Risk and Reliability of Process Plants provides a systematic and integrated coverage of all these elements in sufficient detail for the reader to be able to pursue more detailed study of particular elements or topics from a good appreciation of the whole field. The reader would use this book to keep up to date with new developments and, if they are new to the job, to learn more about the subject. The text includes a chapter of case studies and worked examples - including examples of risk assessments, which is consistent with the approach taken throughout the book of applying real-life scenarios and approaches. • Provides a source for reasonable understanding across the whole field of risk management and risk assessment. • Focuses on the how, what, and why of risk management using a consistent and well organized writing style interspersed with case studies, examples, exercises, as well as end matter. • Fills a need in the area of risk assessment and risk management in the process and chemical engineering industry as an essential multi-audience reference/resource tool, useful to managers and students.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2007-08-17
Dewey code: 628.9225
List Price: $137.95
Price: $101.99
Review Design of Special Hazards and Fire Alarm Systems / Delmar Cengage Learning:The most current guide to fire protection systems is here! Design of Special Hazards and Fire Alarm Systems, 2E is an essential resource for inspecting, designing, installing, using, and understanding a wide variety of simple and complex special hazard and fire alarm systems. Updated to reflect eight of the most current NFPA standards for optimum code-compliant performance, including the 2007 Edition of NFPA 72, the book also uses real-world applications and covers the latest technologies so readers can easily transfer the information they learn to their daily work experiences. Ideal for architects, engineers, layout technicians, fire service personnel, plumbers, mechanical contractors, and sprinkler firms, it is a valuable reference tool for anyone who interacts with these important and intricate systems.
Creator: Inc. Forum for Scientific Excellence
Publication date: 1990-12
Dewey code: 363.1791
List Price: $125.00
Price: $75.00
Review Compendium of Hazardous Chemicals in Schools and Colleges (Chemical and Environmental Safety and Health in Schools and Colleges Series) / Compliance Innovations Inc:
Authors
- Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)
Publication date: 2007-01-09
Dewey code: 660.2804
List Price: $99.95
Price: $77.24
Review Human Factors Methods for Improving Performance in the Process Industries (CCPS Concept Books) / Wiley-AIChE:Human Factors Methods for Improving Performance in the Process Industries provides guidance for managers and plant engineering staff on specific, practical techniques and tools for addressing forty different human factors issues impacting process safety. Human factors incidents can result in injury and death, damage to the environment, fines, and business losses due to ruined batches, off-spec products, unplanned shutdowns, and other adverse effects. Prevention of these incidents increases productivity and profits. Complete with examples, case histories, techniques, and implementation methodologies, Human Factors Methods for Improving Performance in the Process Industries helps managers and engineering staff design and execute an efficient program. Organized for topical reference, the book includes: An overview on implementing a human factors program at the corporate level or the plant level, covering the business value, developing a program to meet specific needs, improving existing systems, roles and responsibilities, measures of performance, and more Summaries of forty different human factors relating to process safety, with a description of the tools, a practical example with graphics and visual aids, and additional resources Information on addressing the OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) requirement for conducting human factors reviews in process hazard analyses (PHAs) A CD-ROM with a color version of the book.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-02-01
Dewey code: 628.42
List Price: $124.95
Price: $104.47
Review Industrial Ecology: Environmental Chemistry and Hazardous Waste / CRC:Industrial ecology may be a relatively new concept - yet it's already proven instrumental for solving a wide variety of problems involving pollution and hazardous waste, especially where available material resources have been limited. By treating industrial systems in a manner that parallels ecological systems in nature, industrial ecology provides a substantial addition to the technologies of environmental chemistry. Stanley E. Manahan, bestselling author of many environmental chemistry books for Lewis Publishers, now examines Industrial Ecology: Environmental Chemistry and Hazardous Waste. His study of this innovative technology uses an overall framework of industrial ecology to cover hazardous wastes from an environmental chemistry perspective. Chapters one to seven focus on how industrial ecology relates to environmental science and technology, with consideration of the anthrosphere as one of five major environmental spheres. Subsequent chapters deal specifically with hazardous substances and hazardous waste, as they relate to industrial ecology and environmental chemistry.
Creator: David A. Pipitone
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1991-03-05
Dewey code: 542.0289
List Price: $206.95
Price: $175.00
Review Safe Storage of Laboratory Chemicals, 2nd Edition / Wiley-Interscience:Destruction of Hazardous Chemicals in the Laboratory George Lunn and Eric B. Sansone This comprehensive guide contains a series of procedures for the safe destruction of a wide variety of hazardous chemicals and also describes how to deal with spills. Each procedure is presented in great detail, thereby eliminating the need for additional references, and most have been extensively validated by international collaborative studies. In addition, many procedures have been tested to see if the final reaction mixtures are mutagenic. 1990 (0 471-51063-7) 271 pp. Chemical Protective Clothing Performance Index Book Krister Forsberg and Lawrence H. Keith This valuable reference contains data on breakthrough times and permeation rates for 650 chemicals and mixtures. The tests performed on over 200 chemical protective clothing (CPC) models—gloves, suits, boots, visors, etc. —were developed by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). The book also discusses the various types of materials used in protective clothing and considers variations in CPC performance due to differences in materials, chemical additives, and manufacturer. [+]1989 (0 471-51430-6) 308 pp. Ventilation for Control of the Work Environment William A. Burgess, Michael J. Ellenbecker, and Robert Treitman A sourcebook for the specification, design, installation and maintenance of industrial ventilation systems, this text brings the concepts and principles of ventilation into an industrial setting while establishing a theoretical background as well. Emphasizing practical aspects, this book covers principles of fluid mechanics, methods and instrumentation for measuring air flow, hood design, selection and performance, and the design of local exhaust ventilation systems. Air cleaning devices, replacement air systems, and the technology and equipment for conditioning the air in the workplace are also discussed. 1989 (0 471-89219-X) 476 pp.
Authors
- Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)
Dewey code: 660.2815
List Price: $143.50
Price: $76.80
Review Guidelines for Improving Plant Reliability Through Data Collection and Analysis / Wiley-AIChE:Written by reliability data experts, the book gives plant managers and supervisors the guidance they need to collect, and use with confidence, process equipment reliability data for risk-based decisions. Focusing on the process industries, it provides the protocol and techniques to collect and organize high quality plant performance, maintenance, and repair data from your own operations, and includes methods and examples on how the data can be converted into useful information for engineering, maintenance, safety, and loss prevention. This data can be used for: facility reliability/availability assessments; making decisions on the need for redundant systems; improving equipment designs; selecting the best equipment for specific tasks; estimating required work force; benchmarking current efforts both frequency and time; integrating predictive and preventive maintenance effort; integrating shutdowns with production needs; quantifying risks; and minimizing human reliability issues.
Authors
- Jeremiah Lynch
- Sydney Lipton
Publication date: 1994-04
Dewey code: 660.2804
List Price: $198.50
Price: $204.58
Review Handbook of Health Hazard Control in the Chemical Process Industry / Wiley-Interscience:This expanded version of an early book contains the latest information on hazard evaluation reflecting OSHA and EPA's newest regulations. Provides comprehensive coverage of equipment, operating procedures and a basis for recommending worker exposure control. Presents new technology developed to manage toxic hazards to human health in closed chemical process plants. Features an in-depth treatment of the engineering practice.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1991-09-01
Dewey code: 660.2804
Price: $199.95
Review Hazards XI: New Directions in Process Safety (Symposium Series/Institution of Chemical Engineers, No 124) / Taylor & Francis:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1993-02-01
Dewey code: 620
List Price: $269.95
Price: $130.00
Review Hazard Assessment Of Chemicals / CRC:The books in this series provide a continuing forum for articles dealing with significant developments within the broad field of chemical hazard assessment. The topics covered in the series include databases and information sources, exposure assessment, monitoring analysis, health and environmental effects, and case studies. The majority of chapters in this current volume are devoted to various aspects of health risk assessment (the evaluation of health hazard associated with human exposure to environmental chemicals). Both regulators and industry now rely on risk assessment in making a wide range of decisions regarding use, control and disposal of potentially hazardous materials. Among the topics discussed are environmental health policy, risk assessment of soil and water contamination, and nutritional risks posed by chemicals in the environment. Hazard ranking systems for chemical waste sites and statistical methods of assessment are also examined. It is aimed at toxicologists, toxicology consultants, chemists, government regulatory agencies, environmentalists, and all other interested individuals.
Authors
- Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)
Dewey code: 660.2804
List Price: $143.50
Price: $92.20
Review Tools for Making Acute Risk Decisions with Chemical Process Safety Applications / Wiley-AIChE:The complexity of today's risk decisions is well known. Beyond cost and risk there are many other factors contributing to these decisions, including type of risk (such as human injury or fatality), the economic impact on the local community, profitability, availability of capital, alternatives for reducing or eliminating the risk, costs of implementing alternatives, codes, standards, regulation, and good industry practice. This book presents a large range of decision aids for risk analysts and decision makers in industry so that vital decisions can be made in a more consistent, logical, and rigorous manner. Though primarily aimed at the process industry, this book can be used by anyone who makes similar decisions in other industries, including those in management science.
Publication date: 2004-06
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $155.00
Price: $81.18
Review Keep It Running, Keep It Safe: Process Machinery Safety and Reliability / Professional Engineering Publishing:Keep it Running, Keep it Safe is based upon the highly regarded Process Machinery Safety and Reliability by the same author. Keep it Running, Keep it Safe, is an invaluable ready reference for day to day work in the process industries. The book outlines a procedure for the assessment of machinery safety and reliability, covering: Hazard assessment Legal requirements Reliability hazards and failure modes Control of Hazards Health and safety compliance It provides a general interpretation of the relevant legislation and identifies safety measures and procedures for the assessment of equipment safety and reliability. With liberal use of case studies and real examples, it explains complex issues in a direct and straightforward style. Keep it Running, Keep it Safe offers a comprehensive understanding of the issues and techniques involved in improving safety and reliability with the potential to make a real difference to everyday engineering practice for plant managers, plant engineers, maintenance engineers, loss prevention engineers, engineering designers, inspectors, and all those concerned with the safe and efficient operation of engineering plant.
Authors
- Roy E. Albert
- Elizabeth L. Anderson
Publication date: 1998-08-28
Dewey code: 613.5
List Price: $94.95
Price: $75.96
Review Risk Assessment and Indoor Air Quality / CRC:With the recent tightening of air quality standards as mandated by the U. S. EPA, has come great pressure on regulatory bodies at all levels of government, along with the industries and groups affected by these standards, to better assess the hazards and risks that result from air pollutants. Risk Assessment and Indoor Air Quality carefully ties together the tools and methodologies of Risk Assessment to the study of indoor air quality. This informative text takes a look at the problem of long-term exposure to low-level concentrations of toxins. In addition to commonly found toxins, such as chemical fumes from furnishings and carpeting, and indoor use of pesticides, this unique volume discusses risks associated with exposure to indoor allergens and infectious disease pathogens such as Legionnaires Disease. Because few scientific models exist for understanding the dynamics of indoor air quality, Risk Assessment and Indoor Air Quality is an essential resource for all students and professionals involved evaluating, testing and monitoring indoor air quality.
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