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Informationen zum Autor J.R. (Jim) Thomson is an independent consultant, specializing in high integrity systems and safety management. He has worked in plant operations management, engineering management, and safety management, and has held executive director posts in two international safety consultancies. He has chaired two international conferences on high-integrity safety systems and was awarded the Nuclear Institute’s Pinkerton Prize in 2013. Klappentext This book is about the engineering management of hazardous industries, such as oil and gas production, hydrocarbon refining, nuclear power and the manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Its scope includes an overview of design standards and processes for high integrity systems,safety management processes as applied to hazardous industries and details best practices in design, operations, maintenance and regulation. Selected case studies are used to show how the complex multidisciplinary enterprises to design and operate hazardous plant can sometimes fail. This includes the subtlety and fragility of the robust safety culture that is required. It is aimed at professional engineers who design, build and operate these hazardous plants. This book is also written for business schools and university engineering departments where engineering management is studied. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: High integrity safety instrumented systems 1. Introduction2. Design of high integrity instrumentation and control (I&C) systems:a. Design for high reliabilityb. Common mode failure and I&C architecturec. Selection of logic elementsd. Setting up a high integrity software project3. The second industrial revolution - the evolution of the computer4. Cyber security5. The human-machine interface6. Managing the safety of ageing I&C equipment Part 2: Pressure vessels 7. Learning from ignorance - a brief history of pressure vessel integrity and failures Part 3: Safety management 8. Introduction and safety culture9. Management systems failures10. The human factor11. Refineries12. Offshore oil production: Piper Alpha and the Cullen Report13. BP14. Chernobyl and Fukushima15. Safety management and safety justification in hazardous industriesEpilogue...
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J.R. (Jim) Thomson is an independent consultant, specializing in high integrity systems and safety management. He has worked in plant operations management, engineering management, and safety management, and has held executive director posts in two international safety consultancies. He has chaired two international conferences on high-integrity safety systems and was awarded the Nuclear Institute’s Pinkerton Prize in 2013.
