Hazardous and toxic materials: safe handling and disposal : Howard H. Fawcett dJohn Wiley & Sons, New York, USA, 2nd Edition, 1988, pp. 514

✍ Scribed by S.S. Grossel

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 20 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0950-4230
• DOI: 10.1016/0950-4230(89)87017-2

✦ Synopsis

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diagrams and charts, and drawing of gradient maps of heat, light, and noise levels.

Human failure aspects of accident occurrence are covered in Chapter 4, while various environmental factors contributing to mishaps (here the author refers to social, technical, economic, and political/legal environments) are reviewed in Chapter 5. Chapter 6 highlights materials failures and what causes them. The systems approach, i.e., looking at an entire functional system or subsystem, to accident investigation is discussed in Chapter 7.

A few analytical techniques are presented and briefly reviewed in Chapter 8, which are then more thoroughly reviewed in the next six chapters. Chapters 9-14 succinctly review the following techniques: systems safety/ fault tree, change analysis, management oversight and risk tree (MORT), multilinear events sequencing, technique of operations review (TOR), and management failure analysis. Most of these