Practical Industrial Safety, Risk Assessment and Shutdown Systems

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-7506-5804-1
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 265 mm, Gewicht: 821 g

This is a book for engineers that covers the hardware and software aspects of high-reliability safety systems, safety instrumentation and shutdown systems as well as risk assessment techniques and the wider spectrum of industrial safety. Rather than another book on the discipline of safety engineering, this is a thoroughly practical guide to the procedures and technology of safety in control and plant engineering. This highly practical book focuses on efficiently implementing and assessing hazard studies, designing and applying international safety practices and techniques, and ensuring high reliability in the safety and emergency shutdown of systems in your plant.

This book will provide the reader with the most up-to-date standards for and information on each stage of the safety life cycle from the initial evaluation of hazards through to the detailed engineering and maintenance of safety instrumented systems. It will help them develop the ability to plan hazard and risk assessment studies, then design and implement and operate the safety systems and maintain and evaluate them to ensure high reliability. Finally it will give the reader the knowledge to help prevent the massive devastation and destruction that can be caused by today's highly technical computer controlled industrial environments.

Zielgruppe

Control and instrumentation engineers; industrial system integrators; electrical, mechanical and chemical engineers and technicians wishing to understand the fundamentals of safety instrumentation and emergency shutdown systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macdonald, Dave (IDC Technologies, Perth, Australia)

Macdonald, Dave

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Arbeitsplatz, Arbeitsschutz, Gefahrstoffschutz
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Arbeitsschutz- und Arbeitssicherheitsrecht
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein Toxikologie, Gefahrstoffe, Sicherheit in der Chemie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to Safety Instrumentation; Hazards and Risk Reduction; Hazard Studies; Safety Requirements Specifications; Technology Choices and the Conceptual Design Stage; Basic Reliability Analysis Applied to Safety Systems; Safety in Field Instruments and Devices; Engineering the Safety System: Hardware; Engineering: the Application Software; Overall Planning: IEC Phases 6,7 and 8; Installation and Commissioning (IEC Phase 12); Validation, Operations and Management of Change; Justification for a Safety Instrumented System; Practicals 1-8; Practical Answers; Glossary.

Über Autor(innen)

Macdonald, Dave
Dave Macdonald has worked as an instrumentation engineer for the past thirty-five years mainly in the chemical industries. He has been working for IDC Technologies for the past four years in the rapidly growing Safety Instrumentation area and has presented and consulted in North America, the UK, Ireland, South Africa and Australia in this area to wide acclaim.