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Chemical Process Safety: Learning from Case Histories by Roy E Sanders

The third edition, recently published is further enlarged and is nearly twice as long as the first edition. The accounts of the individual incidents are brief, to the point and well-illustrated and should convince the most diehard engineer that no plant or process should be changed until there has been a systematic search for unforeseen hazards. The more trivial and harmless the change seems, the more important it is to look for the snags. The book is not one of those made by cutting and pasting the investigators' original reports. Roy, an experienced investigator. has rewritten the original accounts, leaving out facts of only local interest and making the essential messages clear. Descriptions of procedures alone never convinced anybody to do anything, a point often overlooked by those who describe them in books and conference papers. The best way to convince people is to describe, as Roy does, the results of not following the procedures or recognized good practice. Many companies are now publishing fewer case histories than they did twenty years ago, as with staff reductions employees have less time to prepare material for publication but also because many company lawyers advise against publication. Roy and his employer believe that if we have knowledge that can prevent accidents we have a duty to share it and we should thank them for doing so. The only reward Roy asks for is that we learn from his case histories and stop them happening again. Many of the modifications he describes were deceptively simple, changes to the vent on a storage tank, for example, but resulted in death, injury or serious damage... you do not need any advanced knowledge to benefit from Roy's book; it is one for the foreman, the operator and the mechanic as well as the graduate engineer. Buy copies for your control room and workshop as well as one for your office and if you have the first edition it is time to replace by the third edition. However, expecting people to read and remember the book is not enough. The incidents should be discussed to determine if they could happen on your plant and, if so, what has been or should be done to prevent them happening.

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