Health, Safety, & Accident Management in the Chemical Process Industries

Title: Health, Safety, & Accident Management in the Chemical Process Industries
Author: Ann Marie Flynn, Louis Theodore
ISBN: 0824706757 / 9780824706753
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 680
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Year: 2002
Availability: In Stock

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This authoritative reference/text analyzes health and hazard risk assessment in the chemical storage, manufacturing, and refining industries-emphasizing legal requirements, emergency planning and response, safety equipment, process implementation, and occupational and environmental protection exposure guidelines.
Containing practical process diagrams for plant equipment, valves, piping, and control systems, Health, Safety, and Accident Management in the Chemical Process Industries covers laws for disaster planning by federal, state, and local governments....the implementation of safeguards in chemical process design....proper plant operation when using reactors, mass transfer units, heat exchangers, and ancillary devices...the physical and chemical properties and health effects of chlorine, ammonia, hydrogen fluoride, sulfuric acid, ethylene....dose-response evaluation and risk characterization...and more.

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Preface

Part 1 : Introduction
Chapter 1 : Past History
Chapter 2 : Legislation
Chapter 3 : Emergency Planning and Response

Part 2 : Process and Plant Accidents
Chapter 4 : Process Fundamentals
Chapter 5 : Process Equipment
Chapter 6 : Classification of Accidents
Chapter 7 : Fires, Explosion, Toxic Emissions, and Hazardous Spills
Chapter 8 : Process Applications

Part 3 : Health Risk Assessment
Chapter 9 : Introduction to Health Risk Assessment
Chapter 10 : Health Hazard Identification
Chapter 11 : Dose-Response
Chapter 12 : Exposure Assessment
Chapter 13 : Health Risk Analysis and Characterization

Part 4 : Hazard Risk Assessment
Chapter 14 : Introduction to Hazard Risk Assessment
Chapter 15 : Event/Hazard Identification
Chapter 16 : Accident Causes and Probability
Chapter 17 : Accident Consequences and Evaluation
Chapter 18 : Hazard Risk Analysis

Part 5 : Quantitative Hazard Risk Assessment
Chapter 19 : Hazard Risk Assessment Fundamentals
Chapter 20 : Hazard Risk Assessment Calculations
Chapter 21 : Hazard Risk Analysis Applications

Index