Human Fatigue Risk Management: Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry - Softcover

Murray, Susan L.; Thimgan, Matthew S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128024127 ISBN 13: 9780128024126

Publisher: Academic Press, 2016

Synopsis

Human Fatigue Risk Management: Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry teaches users everything they need to know to mitigate the risk of fatigued workers in a plant or refinery. As human fatigue has been directly linked to several major disasters, the book explores the API RP 755 guidelines that were released to reduce these types of incidents. This book will help users follow API RP 755 and/or implement a fatigue risk management system in their organization.

Susan Murray, a recognized expert in the field of sleep deprivation and its relation to high hazard industries, has written this book to be useful for HSE managers, plant and project managers, occupational safety professionals, and engineers and managers in the chemical processing industry. As scheduling of shifts is an important factor in reducing fatigue and accident rates, users will learn the benefits of more frequent staff rotation and how to implement an ideal scheduling plan.

The book goes beyond API RP 755, offering more detailed understanding of why certain measures for managing fatigue are beneficial to a company, including examples of how theory can be put into practice. It is a simple, digestible book for managers who are interested in addressing human factor issues at their workplace in order to raise safety standards.

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About the Authors

Susan L. Murray, Ph.D., P.E., Professor - Engineering Management & Systems Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology

http://web.mst.edu/~murray/resume.html

Matthew S. Thimgan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor - Biological Sciences, Missouri University of Science and Technology. Matthew has over 10 years’ experience in sleep biology, and his research interests are biochemistry, genetics and anatomy of the sleep loss response, role of lipid metabolism in Drosophila and identification of biomarkers for sleepiness.

From the Back Cover

Human Fatigue Risk Management will teach you everything you need to know about mitigating the risk of fatigued workers in your plant or refinery. Human fatigue has been directly linked to several major disasters, prompting the API RP 755 guidelines to be released. This book will help you to follow API RP 755 and/or implement a Fatigue Risk Management System in your organization. Susan Murray is a recognized expert in the field of sleep deprivation as related to high hazard industries, and has written this book to be useful for HSE managers, plant and project managers, occupational safety professionals, and engineers/managers in the chemical processing industry.

Scheduling of shifts is an important factor in reducing fatigue and therefore accident rates; this book will help you prove the benefits of more frequent staff rotation and implement an ideal scheduling plan. It goes beyond API RP 755, offering more detail and better understanding of why certain measures for managing fatigue are beneficial to a company. This book provides examples of how the theory can be put into practice, and is a simple, digestible book for managers who are keen to address human factor issues at their workplace and raise safety standards.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128024127
• ISBN 13: 9780128024126
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 282