Lessons from Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur - Hardcover

Kletz, Trevor A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0884151549 ISBN 13: 9780884151548

Publisher: Gulf Publishing, 1993

Synopsis

It is by avoiding accidents that the process industries will improve their public image. Lessons from Disaster focuses upon the apparent inability of organizations to learn, and retain in long-term, the lessons drawn from accidents. Incidents of a similar type continue to occur within companies repeatedly. Trevor Kletz illustrates this with detailed cases, which form a gold mine of experience and advice for every engineer. He offers, with his customary vision and imagination, his own advice on how to improve the corporate memory.

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About the Author

Trevor Kletz, OBE, D.Sc., F.Eng., a process safety consultant, has published more than a hundred papers and nine books on loss prevention and process safety, including most recently Lessons From Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur and Computer Control and Human Error. His experience includes thirty-eight years with Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., where he served as a production manager and safety adviser in the petrochemical division, and membership in the department of chemical engineering at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, England. He is currently senior visiting research fellow at Loughborough University and an officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gulf Publishing
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0884151549
• ISBN 13: 9780884151548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192