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Process Plants
CRC Press 2010; US$ 104.95Covers the design of inherently safer and user-friendly plants. This book demonstrates how chemical plants can withstand human error and equipment failures without serious effects on safety, output, or efficiency. It features sections that address the hierarchy of controls and highlight human factors in determining risk. more...
Handbook of Occupational Safety and Health
CRC Press 2010; US$ 104.95Occupational safety and health - safe work in a safe environment. The challenge, of course, is how to make this happen and make it happen economically. This book provides a range of methods along with specific criteria for assessing hazard and exposure in the workplace environment. more...
Understanding Atmospheric Dispersion of Accidental Releases
Wiley 2010; US$ 82.95A brief introduction to a complex topic, giving a description of the processes involved in an accidental or emergency release and the resulting downwind transport and dilution of gases, vapors, and aerosols. more...
Incidents That Define Process Safety
Wiley 2010; US$ 116.00Incidents That Define Process Safety describes approximately fifty incidents that have had a significant impact on the chemical and refining industries' approaches to modern process safety. Events are described in detail so readers get a fundamental understanding of the root causes, the consequences, the lessons learned, and actions that can prevent... more...
Avoiding Static Ignition Hazards in Chemical Operations
Wiley 2010; US$ 145.00Written by Laurence Britton, who has over 20 years' experience in the fields of static ignition and process fire and explosion hazards research, this resource addresses an area not extensively covered in process safety standards or literature: understanding and reducing potential hazards associated with static electricity. The book covers the nature... more...
Unlikely Victory
Wiley 2010; US$ 93.95Many companies that stray too far from their core business fail. So how is it that General Electric, a major electrical manufacturing company, ended up as one of the top U.S. chemical producers—with 1998 sales of $6.6 billion? In Unlikely Victory, Jerome T. Coe, a retired 40-year career employee with General Electric, who spent more than 20 years... more...
AIChE Equipment Testing Procedure
Wiley 2010; US$ 93.95This procedure offers complete methodologies for sampling and measuring particle streams and summarizes methods of particle size analysis. It also lists operating variables to be considered and measured. Although the procedure is intended specifically for particle classification equipment, many of the items are also relevant to particle collection... more...
Human-Computer Interaction and Operators Performance
CRC Press 2010; US$ 94.95Directed to a broad and interdisciplinary audience, this book provides a complete account of what has been accomplished in applied and systemic-structural activity theory. It presents a new approach to applied psychology and the study of human work that has derived from activity theory. The selected articles demonstrate the basic principles of studying... more...
Health and Safety at Work
Kogan Page 2010; US$ 60.00Health & Safety at Work: An Essential Guide for Managers is a practical guide to establishing systems and procedures for effective health and safety management and to the legal requirements for businesses. more...
Guidelines for Engineering Design for Process Safety
Wiley 2010; US$ 195.00Inherently safer plants begin with the initial design. Here is where integrity and reliability can be built in at the lowest cost, and with maximum effectiveness. This book focuses on process safety issues in the design of chemical, petrochemical, and hydrocarbon processing facilities. It discusses how to select designs that can prevent or mitigate... more...









