Practical Industrial Safety, Risk Assessment and Shutdown Systems - Softcover

Macdonald, Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750658045 ISBN 13: 9780750658041

Publisher: Newnes, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Newnes
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750658045
• ISBN 13: 9780750658041
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 374