Still Going Wrong!: Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided - Hardcover

Kletz, Trevor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750677090 ISBN 13: 9780750677097

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

This is Trevor Kletz's follow up to his extremely successful What Went Wrong? Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters. In it, Kletz reinforces the messages in his now-classic book of famous case histories, but the majority of the book covers points not covered in the original. This new volume will focus more on procedural changes that can be made, not only at the technical or engineering levels, but at the managerial level, to prevent disasters from happening.

* This volume follows up on the cases and strategies outlined in the original million-dollar seller: "What Went Wrong"
* Contains many new cases and areas for improvement, including the hazards of rust, corrosion, and many more new topics
* Written by the world's leading expert on industrial safety

About this title

About the Author

Trevor Kletz, OBE, D.Sc., F.Eng. (1922-2013), was a process safety consultant, and 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. He worked thirty-eight years with Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., where he served as a production manager and safety adviser in the petrochemical division, also holding membership in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, England. He most recently served as senior visiting research fellow at Loughborough University, and adjunct professor at the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University.

From the Back Cover

Trevor Kletz's classic book, "What Went Wrong?", revolutionized the way industry views safety. This completely new volume, "Still Going Wrong!" continues and extends the practices and wisdom of the original while focusing on innovations and strategies that Kletz and others have pioneered over the last decade. Kletz reinforces the messages in his now-classic book of famous case histories, but Still Going Wrong! hits on many new points, such as how many accidents occur through simple miscommunications within the organization and how simple changes in design can often remove or reduce opportunities for human errors. Like What Went Wrong?, this new volume discusses the technical causes of accidents, but Still Going Wrong! pays closer attention to the underlying weaknesses in the management and design systems that made it possible for the technical errors to occur in the first place. All new material treating the hazards of corrosion, and numerous new topics, including: maintenance, entry into confined spaces, materials of construction (including insulation), explosions, leaks, reactions-planned and unplanned, accident investigation, and missed opportunities. These are only some of the highlights of this new classic.Trevor Kletz spent 38years in industry and is now a writer and lecturer on process safety. He has published more than a hundred papers and ten books on the subject and is currently a visiting professor at Loughborough University, UK and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0750677090
• ISBN 13: 9780750677097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256