High Integrity Systems and Safety Management in Hazardous Industries

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvJ.R Thomson

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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.

Provides an overview of safety management processes as applied to hazardous industries
Includes best practices in design, operations, maintenance, and regulation
Outlines design standards and processes for high integrity systems
Provides real-world examples and case studies across all areas of high integrity systems in hazardous industries
Introduces 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

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-06-02
Mått191 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt780 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor370
Upplaga2
FörlagElsevier Science
ISBN9780443339455

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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.

1. IntroductionPart 1: High integrity safety instrumented systems2. The Design of High-integrity Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Systems for Hazardous Plant Control and Protection3. Cyber Security, Cyber-attack and Cyber-espionage4. The Human–Machine Interface5. Some Case Studies of Software and Microprocessor Failures6. Managing the Safety of Aging I&C EquipmentPart 2: The history of high-integrity technologies – pressure vessels and computers7. Learning from ignorance: A brief history of pressure vessel integrity and failures8. The second industrial revolution: a brief history of computer developmentPart 3: Safety management9. Introduction: Organisation and safety culture10. Management systems to prevent or mitigate accidents11. The human factor12. Hydrocarbon13. Offshore oil and gas: Piper Alpha and Mumbai High14. BP: Introduction and the history of BP15. Chernobyl and Prelude: Tourism behind the Iron Curtain, 198416. Toxic release17. Tragedies of the Commons18. Conclusions