Operational Safety Economics: A Practical Approach focused on the Chemical and Process Industries - Hardcover

Reniers, Genserik L. L.; Van Erp, H. R. Noel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 111887112X ISBN 13: 9781118871126

Publisher: Wiley, 2016

Synopsis

Describes how to make economic decisions regading safety  in the chemical and process industries

• Covers both technical risk assessment and economic aspects of safety decision-making
• Suitable for both academic researchers and practitioners in industry
• Addresses cost-benefit analysis for safety investments

About this title

About the Author

Genserik Reniers is Professor at the TU Delft (Safety Science Group, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, The Netherlands), Professor at the HUB campus of the KULeuven (CEDON, Faculty of Economics and Management, Belgium) and at the University of Antwerp (ARGoSS, Faculty of Applied Economic Sciences, Belgium).
He received his PhD in Applied Economic Sciences from the University of Antwerp, after completing a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. His main research interests concern the collaboration and interaction between safety and security topics and socio-economic optimization within the chemical industry.
Genserik has authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 20 books in the field of safety and/or security in the process industries, and he is Receiving editor for the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries (JLPPI), and Associate Editor of Safety Science, two very well-known academic journals in the research field. He has taught safety and security economics (as part of larger courses) since 2006 both at the University of Antwerp and at the HUB-campus of the KULeuven.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 111887112X
• ISBN 13: 9781118871126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336