Process Safety Management and Human Factors

A Practitioner's Experiential Approach

Waddah S. Ghanem Al Hashmi

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9780128181102
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Process Safety Management and Human Factors: A Practitioner's Experiential Approach addresses human factors in process safety management (PSM) from a reflective learning approach. The book is written by engineers and technical specialists who spent the last 15-20 years of their professional career looking at behavioral-based safety, human factor research, and safety culture development in organizations. It is a fundamental resource for operational, technical and safety managers in high-risk industries who need to focus on personal and occupational safety management to prevent safety accidents. Real-life examples illustrate how a good, effective understanding of human factors supports PSM and positive impacts on accident occurrence.

• Covers the evolution and background of process safety management
• Shows how to integrate and augment process safety management with operational excellence and health, safety and environment management systems
• Focuses on human factors in process safety management
• Includes many real-life case studies from the collective experience of the book's authors

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• About the authors
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Introduction to process safety management in a practical context
• Chapter 2. Introduction to human factors and the human element
• Chapter 3. Leadership and process safety management
• Chapter 4. The awareness of risk, complacency, and the normalization of deviance
• Chapter 5. Competence assurance and organizational learning
• Chapter 6. Integration of human factors in hazard identification and risk assessment
• Chapter 7. Inherent safety impact in complying process safety regulations and reducing human error
• Chapter 8. Asset and mechanical integrity management
• Chapter 9. Management of change
• Chapter 10. Management of risk through safe work practices
• Chapter 11. Process safety information, hazard control, and communication
• Chapter 12. Prestart-up and shutdown safety reviews
• Chapter 13. Contractor management
• Chapter 14. Emergency response management and control
• Chapter 15. Human performance within process safety management compliance assurance
• Chapter 16. Regulating PSM and the impact of effectiveness
• Chapter 17. Readying the organization for change: communication and alignment
• Chapter 18. Do we really learn from loss incidents?
• Chapter 19. Gauging the effectiveness of implementation and measuring the performance of PSM activities
• Chapter 20. Human errors, organization culture, and leadership
• Epilogue
• Appendix 1. Sample PSSR checklist and report
• Appendix 2. Reference list and international standards and codes
• Index