The Role of Environmental and Process Safety Barriers in the Journey Towards Accident Prevention and Mitigation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciano Scataglini ◽  
Melania Buffagni
Keyword(s):  
Accident Prevention ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Safety Barriers

Effects of Human Factors in Process Safety

2022 ◽  
pp. 1477-1507
Author(s):  
Gargi Bhattacharjee ◽  
Sudip Kumar Das
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Near Miss ◽  
Accident Analysis ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Process Industries ◽  
Human And Organizational Factors

Accidents and near-miss accidents in chemical industries are widespread. Most of the incidents occurred due to combinations of organizational and human factors. To identify the causes for an incident of an accident analysis is needed, because it reveals the possible causes behind the accidents. Accident analysis shows the human and organizational factors that support learning from the events. Literature review shows that human error plays an important role of accidents in process industries. The chapter discusses some case studies which are received very little media publicity and also no proper assessment. At first reports on the incidents were collected from newspapers and then the place was visited to conduct an interview with local people and present and past workers with the help of the PESO (M/S Petroleum and Explosive Safety Organization, Eastern Region, Govt. of India).

The Plaintiff's Attorney

1978 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 669-669
Author(s):  
Harry M. Philo ◽  
Linda Miller Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Product Liability ◽  
Accident Prevention ◽  
Product Safety ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
The Social ◽  
Trial Judges

The social purpose of product liability litigation is product safety and accident Prevention. The role of the Human Factors Expert in that context is to educate juries, trial judges and appellate judges, attorneys, and experts in product design. The role of the Human Factors Expert in this context also includes being educated by the attorney's hindsight and experience, the technical materials, and by due care standards rather than compromise standards.

The role of the teacher in child accident prevention

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. H. Carter ◽  
M. J. Bannon ◽  
P. W. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Accident Prevention

Industry Process Safety

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-151
Author(s):  
Ales Bernatik
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Accident Prevention ◽  
Quantitative Risk Assessment ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Industrial Accidents ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Major Accident

This chapter deals with the issue of process safety in industrial companies and major accident prevention. In the present-day technologically advanced world, industrial accidents appear ever more frequently, and the field of major accident prevention has become a dynamically developing discipline. With accelerating technical progress, risks of industrial accidents are to be reduced. In the first part, possible approaches to quantitative risk assessment are presented; and continuing it focuses on the system of risk management in industrial establishments. This chapter aims at providing experiences, knowledge, as well as new approaches to the prevention of major accidents caused by the implementation of the Seveso III Directive.

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