Process Safety Excellence: A Practical Reference for Operating Companies

Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF نویسندگان: Danny C. White
جزئیات
فرمت: Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF ناشر: HSE Engineering Press تاریخ انتشار نسخه الکترونیکی : September 13, 2026
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شابک: 9798995293125 لینک: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJP8131M
توضیحات
Process safety is the operating discipline that prevents catastrophic events. Its strength depends on the connections among management systems, technical safeguards, and the people who make decisions about them.Drawing on more than four decades in refining, chemical manufacturing, and oil and gas, Danny C. White, PE, CSP, connects technical understanding, management systems, and leadership practice in Process Safety Excellence: A Practical Reference for Operating Companies. Written for people throughout the operating company, from the field and control room to engineering, site leadership, and the boardroom, its 34 chapters follow four connected parts.Part I: Process Safety Foundations. Establishes the shared language of hazards, risk, consequences, and safeguards. It introduces practical tools for assessing risk, selecting controls, prioritizing action, and carrying recommendations through to verified improvements in the field.Part II: Risk-Based Process Safety. Explains the twenty elements that organize and sustain process safety, including culture and competency, process knowledge, hazard analysis, operating procedures, asset integrity, management of change, emergency management, and learning from experience. It connects the management system to relevant OSHA PSM and EPA RMP requirements, functional responsibilities, and daily operating practice.Part III: Technical Safety. Connects codes and standards, safe operating limits, independent protection layers, unit process hazard analysis, and permit to work with the safeguards used in the field: fixed gas detection, safety instrumented systems, emergency block valves, and pressure relief systems. The emphasis is on understanding what protects the unit, asking informed technical questions, and recognizing when field conditions no longer match the technical basis.Part IV: Process Safety Leadership. Examines human and organizational performance, cost and capital decisions, production pressure, abnormal conditions, and risk communication. It provides practical methods for making a clear case for resources, working across organizational boundaries, and challenging decisions professionally, including when someone more senior disagrees. For a supervisor stepping into a first leadership role, this means learning to make decisions within assigned authority, present dissenting views fairly, and escalate unresolved safety concerns through established channels: “escalating when necessary without burning the room down.”Incident examples drawn from U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigations, practical “Find it and fix it” sections, and clear roles and accountabilities connect the concepts to operating conditions and field execution. Read the book from beginning to end to build a connected understanding, or use individual chapters to prepare for a review, evaluate a concern, or support a decision.The purpose is to develop operational leaders as process safety leaders and give the rest of the company the understanding to support them.The book also provides a foundation for structured process safety training, with individual chapters supporting focused instruction and serving as practical references when participants return to their operating responsibilities.
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