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What Went Wrong? Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided

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ISBN-10: 1856175316

ISBN-13: 9781856175319

Edition: 5th 2009

Authors: Trevor Kletz

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"What Went Wrong?" has revolutionized the way industry views safety. The new edition continues and extends the wisdom, innovations and strategies of previous editions, by introducing new material on recent incidents, and adding an extensive new section that shows how many accidents occur through simple miscommunications within the organization, and how strightforward changes in design can often remove or reduce opportunities for human errors. Kletz' approach to learning as deeply as possible from previous experiences is made yet more valuable in this new edtion, which for the first time brings together the approaches and cases of "What Went Wrong" with the managerially focussed material…    
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Book details

List price: $76.99
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Publication date: 7/22/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Trevor Kletz, OBE, D.Sc., F.Eng., a process safety consultant, has 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. His experience includes thirty-eight years with Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., where he served as a production manager and safety adviser in the petrochemical division, and membership in the department of chemical engineering at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, England. He is currently senior visiting research fellow at Loughborough University and an officer of the Order of the British…