Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety [Hardcover]

Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety provides guidelines for industries that manufacture, consume, or handle chemicals, by focusing on new ways to design, correct, or improve process safety management practices. This new framework for thinking about process safety builds upon the original process safety management ideas published in the early 1990s, integrates industry lessons learned over the intervening years, utilizes applicable total quality principles (i.e., plan, do, check, act), and organizes it in a way that will be useful to all organizations - even those with relatively lower hazard activities - throughout the life-cycle of a company.

List of Tables xxix

List of Figures xxxi

Acronyms and Abbreviations xxxiii

Glossary xxxvii

Acknowledgments xlvii

Preface xlix

Executive Summary li

1 INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Purpose of These Guidelines 2

1.2 Background 6

1.3 Important Terminology 9

1.4 Management Systems Concepts 10

1.5 Risk Based Process Safety Elements 12

1.6 Relationship Between RBPS Elements and Work Activities 12

1.7 Application of these RBPS Guidelines 14

1.8 Organization of these Guidelines 16

1.9 References 17

2 OVERVIEW OF RISK BASED PROCESS SAFETY 19

2.1 Risk Based Process Safety System Design Strategies 22

2.2 Risk Based Process Safety Design and Improvement Criteria 24

2.3 Using Element Chapters to Design and Improve a Process Safety Management System 32

I COMMIT TO PROCESS SAFETY 37

3 PROCESS SAFETY CULTURE 39

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