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What Went Wrong: Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters
This volume features sections and chapters on heat exchangers, furnaces, inherently-safer design and runaway reactions. The book includes process plant accidents occurring since publication of the 1988 edition, for example, the Phillips 66 Company Houston Chemical Complex explosion and fire, and the Piper Alpha disaster. The book is also concerned with the immediate technical causes of these diasaters and the changes in design and procedures needed to prevent them from happening again. Trevor Kletz is the author of "Lessons from How Organizations Have No Memory" and "Accidents Recur".
238 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 1998
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June 13, 2011
ENLIGHTENING STUFF
Mr Kletz offers engaging technical insights with case stories arising out of his long professional experience related to accidents causing small to large property damage and bodily injury including death and demonstrates that they just arise from silly mistakes made during everyday work or by having misconceptions about the laws of physics or process engineering
It is focused on occurrences in the chemical industry but the case stories serve as an example for property loss prevention in any industry (among the chapters it delves into are: maintenance, modifications, pressure pipes and vessels, hazard of materials, computers, human errors, storage tanks, labeling)
It is a slow paced reading, written to focus on ideas and develop concepts to have something new to think about. Most suitable readers are loss control & process engineers and health and safety professionals working in any type of industry or doing field surveys for insurance companies
Mr Kletz offers engaging technical insights with case stories arising out of his long professional experience related to accidents causing small to large property damage and bodily injury including death and demonstrates that they just arise from silly mistakes made during everyday work or by having misconceptions about the laws of physics or process engineering
It is focused on occurrences in the chemical industry but the case stories serve as an example for property loss prevention in any industry (among the chapters it delves into are: maintenance, modifications, pressure pipes and vessels, hazard of materials, computers, human errors, storage tanks, labeling)
It is a slow paced reading, written to focus on ideas and develop concepts to have something new to think about. Most suitable readers are loss control & process engineers and health and safety professionals working in any type of industry or doing field surveys for insurance companies
January 21, 2016
Livro pesado para se ler, mas bem inquietante.
June 13, 2011
A MUST READ FOR PROFESSIONALS OF INDUSTRIAL LOSS PREVENTION
A sequel of What Went Wrong?, Fourth Edition: Case Studies of Process Plant Disasters]] by Trevor Kletz
Both books referred to me by a highly qualified colleague
The author lectures about loss prevention in order to avoid accidents by way of cases he has stumbled upon during his professional experience
He shows how self-confidence, ignorance, and engineering misconceptions & myths can lead to awful tragedies in terms of property damage and loss of life
In this second book, with the same structure as "What went wrong", what I have found is far better crystal clear examples, more simple language and more concrete enlightening concepts
Having 12 years experience to date working in Health & Safety and Loss Control Engineering, and having visited more than 1000 factories of every kind and size in Argentina, (I work with a large corporate local insurance broker), both, this book and "What went wrong" helped me to understand better some subjects very difficult to comprehend (i.e risks with static electricity), just to mention one of the many
The explanations about corrosion related to tanks and the explosion in a tank that contained only water, were very enlightening indeed, I mean this last one incredible
I hope Mr Kletz publishes further work
A sequel of What Went Wrong?, Fourth Edition: Case Studies of Process Plant Disasters]] by Trevor Kletz
Both books referred to me by a highly qualified colleague
The author lectures about loss prevention in order to avoid accidents by way of cases he has stumbled upon during his professional experience
He shows how self-confidence, ignorance, and engineering misconceptions & myths can lead to awful tragedies in terms of property damage and loss of life
In this second book, with the same structure as "What went wrong", what I have found is far better crystal clear examples, more simple language and more concrete enlightening concepts
Having 12 years experience to date working in Health & Safety and Loss Control Engineering, and having visited more than 1000 factories of every kind and size in Argentina, (I work with a large corporate local insurance broker), both, this book and "What went wrong" helped me to understand better some subjects very difficult to comprehend (i.e risks with static electricity), just to mention one of the many
The explanations about corrosion related to tanks and the explosion in a tank that contained only water, were very enlightening indeed, I mean this last one incredible
I hope Mr Kletz publishes further work
August 5, 2007
I love Kletz's works on process safety.. his style to sum some short story pasted from philosophers, brings his work on a specific knowledge name "Process Safety" back into base.
I list his books in to the front row - since first time i read... my career also as Process Safety Engineer... wholly influenced by his writing in Process Safety.
I list his books in to the front row - since first time i read... my career also as Process Safety Engineer... wholly influenced by his writing in Process Safety.
April 8, 2013
very good
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