Handbook of Loss Prevention Engineering

Joel M. Haight

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9783527650668
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Industrial Health & Safety
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Loss prevention engineering describes all activities intended to help organizations in any industry to prevent loss, whether it be through injury, fire, explosion, toxic release, natural disaster, terrorism or other security threats. Compared to process safety, which only focusses on preventing loss in the process industry, this is a much broader field. Here is the only one-stop source for loss prevention principles, policies, practices, programs and methodology presented from an engineering vantage point. As such, this handbook discusses the engineering needs for manufacturing, construction, mining, defense, health care, transportation and quantification, covering the topics to a depth that allows for their functional use while providing additional references should more information be required. The reference nature of the book allows any engineers or other professionals in charge of safety concerns to find the information needed to complete their analysis, project, process, or design.

Contents to Volume 1

Preface

Loss Prevention Engineering involves the engineering required to help us prevent accidental, undesired loss-producing incidents. It is a diverse application of engineering that can call upon every engineering discipline and many other scientific and social science disciplines as well as just about every aspect of industrial life. It is generally assumed that, by definition, we do not want to experience this type of loss. In response to that, the authors of this book seek to inform the engineering community about what must be considered when designing, operating and maintaining systems and processes so that accidental and undesired failures or loss-producing incidents (including human injury) are less likely to occur or, if they do, that they result in lesser consequences.

However, because loss prevention engineering is such a diverse and broadly demanding application of engineering and scientific principles and even if we limit the subject to preventing accidental loss incidents (such as automobile crashes, sporting accidents, etc.), we would still never be able to cover all the relevant and important topics that would be needed in just one book. So, we have chosen to cover the topics relating to engineering industrial processes to prevent or reduce loss from accidental and undesired incidents. It is the expectation of our authors to present to you, our readers, a thorough collection and summary of what is known in industry about preventing work related injuries and other undesired, accidental loss incidents. Some of our readers will already be well-versed in such fields as safety engineering, process safety management, fire protection engineering, industrial hygiene, or environmental engineering, but it is expected that not many engineers are well-versed in all of these fields. Therefore, with the input of nearly 40 authors, and since many find themselves to be in need of information on any and all of these topic areas, the book encompasses parts of all of them. The book is grouped into major topic areas of similar subject matter to lend cohesiveness to the information. Our authors present a number of case studies and exercises that will help our readers to put the principles and theories of loss prevention engineering into proper day-to-day perspective. It is also the expectation of the authors that our readers will find this book to be a necessity any time each of you are tasked with solving an engineering problem that could lead to a loss-producing incident, any time you find yourself assigned to a job in which loss prevention engineering is part of the defined responsibilities or any time you want to learn about loss prevention engineering as an occupation or field of study. This book provides you the information you will need in any or all of these cases. It is an excellent and thorough reference handbook that we hope you find useful in the everyday dispatch of your industrial duties.

A diverse and detailed publication like this would not be possible without the input of many people of a multitude of experiences, languages, countries of origin, and industrial backgrounds. Our authors hail from nine different countries, represent nearly 20 different industry categories, and have an average of about 20 years of experience in their fields. This book would not have been possible without them and I thank all of them for their significant and valuable contributions. I would also like to thank the reviewers of our chapters as it is an important aspect of this book to ensure that you, our readers, get more than just the opinions of one author. You will find that the material is widely accepted and is not just a “here's how we do things at our plant”-type book. All engineers are charged with a responsibility to protect people, equipment, facilities and operations and therefore, it is our hope that in reading this book you will learn something new and that you will enhance your organization's efforts to protect their operations and their people from injuries and other loss-producing incidents.

Pittsburgh

Joel M. Haight

January 2013

List of Contributors

Remigio Agraz-Boeneker

Primatech Inc.

50 Northwoods Boulevard

Columbus, OH 43235

USA

Tareq Ahram

University of Central Florida

Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

4000 Central Florida Boulevard

Orlando, FL 32816

USA

Marjory E. Anderson

Architect of the Capitol

Ford House Office Building

Washington, DC 20515

USA

Craig Arthur Brown

6500 W 96th Drive

Westminster, CO 80021

USA

Geoffrey S. Barnard

Praxair Inc.

39 Old Ridgebury Road

Danbury, CT 06810

USA

Paul Baybutt

Primatech Inc.

50 Northwoods Boulevard

Columbus, OH 43235

USA

Warren K. Brown

1855 Campus Drive

Fairborn, OH 45324

USA

Leo J. DeBobes

Stony Brook University

School of Health Technology & Management

Health Sciences Level 1

Room 143

Stony Brook, NY 11794-8019

USA

Marek Dudek

Institute of Mining Technology KOMAG

ul. Pszczynska 37

Gliwice 44-101

Poland

Michael Farris

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

1201 Lake Robbins Drive

The Woodlands, TX 77380

USA

Patrick Fortune

Suncor Energy

Alberta Boiler Safety Association

Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals

(Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP))

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Related Titles
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents to Volume 1
• Preface
• List of Contributors
• Part I: Engineering Management for Loss Prevention Engineering
• Part II: Design and Analysis of Protective Systems – General Loss Prevention Engineering
• Part III: Ergonomics and Human Factors Engineering
• Title Page
• Contents to Volume 2
• List of Contributors
• Part IV: Process Safety Management and System Safety Engineering
• Part V: Occupational Health and Environmental Engineering
• Part VI: Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis Methodology and Management
• Part VII: Fire Protection Engineering
• Index