HAZOP: Guide to Best Practice, Third Edition

✍ Scribed by Frank Crawley, Brian Tyler

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 164
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

HAZOP: Guide to Best Practice, 3rd Edition describes and illustrates the HAZOP study method, highlighting a variety of proven uses and approaches. This updated edition brings additional experience with which to assist the reader in delivering optimum safety and efficiency of performance of the HAZOP team. HAZOP is the most widely-used technique in the process industries for the identification of hazards and the planning of safety measures.

This book explains how to implement HAZOP techniques in new facilities and apply it to existing facilities. The content covers many of the possible applications of HAZOP and takes you through all the stages of a study. This simple, easily digestible book is a favorite in the chemical and process industries.

• A concise and clear guide to the dos and donts in HAZOP
• New edition brings additional experience to help you deliver optimum safety and efficiency of performance.
• Updated material includes a section on HAZOP study of a procedure with a detailed example, new sections on pre-meeting with the client auditing a study, human factors and linking HAZOP study to LOPA. A section on start-up and shutdown has been added to the chapter on specific applications of HAZOP.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front-matter, Pages i,iii
Copyright, Page iv
Foreword, Pages ix-xi
Acknowledgments, Pages xiii-xiv
Chapter 1 - Introduction, Pages 1-3
Chapter 2 - Process Hazard Studies, Pages 4-9
Chapter 3 - The HAZOP Study Method, Pages 10-12
Chapter 4 - The Detailed HAZOP Study Procedure, Pages 13-28
Chapter 5 - Organizing a HAZOP Study, Pages 29-42
Chapter 6 - Carrying Out a Study, Pages 43-49
Chapter 7 - Recording and Auditing, Pages 50-57
Chapter 8 - Training, Pages 58-59
Chapter 9 - Company Procedures for HAZOP Study, Pages 60-61
Chapter 10 - Advanced Aspects of HAZOP Study, Pages 62-76
Chapter 11 - Specific Applications of HAZOP, Pages 77-91
Chapter 12 - Factors for a Successful HAZOP Study, Pages 92-94
Appendix 1 - The Guideword-First Approach to HAZOP, Pages 95-97
Appendix 2 - The Use of Checklists Within HAZOP Study, Pages 99-100
Appendix 3 - An Illustration of HAZOP Study for a Continuous Operation, Pages 101-121
Appendix 4 - An Illustration of HAZOP Study for a Batch Operation, Pages 123-138
Appendix 5 - An Illustration of HAZOP Study for a Procedure, Pages 139-150
Acronyms and Abbreviations, Pages 151-152
References and Bibliography, Pages 153-154
Index, Pages 155-158

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