The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) has been the global leader in developing and disseminating information on process safety management and technology since 1985. It has published over 100 books in its process safety guidelines and process safety concepts series and created over 30 training modules through its Safety in Chemical Engineering Education series.

List of Figures xvii

List of Tables xxiii

Acronyms and Abbreviations xxv

Glossary xxix

Acknowledgments xliii

Online Materials Accompanying this Book xlv

Preface xlvi

Chapter 1 Introduction and Regulatory Overview 1

Chapter 2 Risk Based Process Safety 15

Chapter 3 Process Safety Regulations, Codes, and Standards 35

Chapter 4 Fire and Explosion Hazards 53

Chapter 5 Reactive Chemical Hazards 85

Chapter 6 Toxic Hazards 105

Chapter 7 Chemical Hazards Data Sources 119

Chapter 8 Other Hazards 131

Chapter 9 Process Safety Incident Classification 145

Chapter 10 Project Design Basics 159

Chapter 11 Equipment Failure 179

Chapter 12 Hazard Identification 239

Chapter 13 Consequence Analysis 263

Chapter 14 Risk Assessment 311

Chapter 15 Risk Mitigation 337

Chapter 16 Human Factors 355

Chapter 17 Operational Readiness 373

Chapter 18 Management of Change 383

Chapter 19 Operating Procedures, Safe Work Practices, Conduct of Operations, and Operational Discipline 393

Chapter 20 Emergency Management 413

Chapter 21 People Management Aspects of Process Safety Management 427

Chapter 22 Sustaining Process Safety Performance 447

Chapter 23 Process Safety Culture 459

Appendix A - Concluding Exercises 465

Appendix B - Relationship Between Book Content and Typical Engineering Courses 477

Appendix C - Example RAGAGEP List 479

Appendix D - Reactive Chemicals Checklist 481

Appendix E - Classifying Process Safety Events Using API RP 754 3nd Edition 487

Appendix F - Example Process Operations Readings and Evaluations 499

Appendix G - List of CSB Videos 503

Appendix H - Major Process Safety Incident Vs Root Cause Map 509

Index 511