This authoritative reference/text analyzes health and hazard risk assessment in commercial, industrial, and refining industries and emphasizes legal requirements, emergency planning and response, safety equipment, process implementation, and occupational and environmental protection exposure guidelines.

This book reviews actual events and case studies that chronicle the evolution of safety precautions, the establishment of emergency planning requirements, and the design of advanced warning and control systems!

Features:

• laws for disaster planning by federal, state, and local governments
• implementation of safeguards in chemical process design
• proper plant operation when using reactors, mass transfer units, heat exchangers, and ancillary devices
• physical and chemical properties and health effects of chlorine, ammonia, hydrogen fluoride, sulfuric acid, and ethylene
• dose-response evaluation and risk characterization
• and more!

Health, Safety, and Accident Management in the Chemical Process Industries is an invaluable resource for chemical, industrial, manufacturing, and environmental engineers; public safety, human services, and health care managers and administrators; social workers; and public policy specialists; and an ideal text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Contents:

• Past History
• Legislation
• Emergency Planning and Response
• Process Fundamentals
• Process Equipment
• Classification of Accidents
• Fires, Explosions, Toxic Emissions and Hazardous Spills
• Process Applications
• Introduction to Health Risk Assessment
• Health Hazard Identification
• Dose-Response
• Exposure Assessment
• Health Risk Analysis and Characterization
• Introduction to Hazard Risk Assessment
• Event/Hazard Identification
• Accident Causes and Probability
• Accident Consequences and Evaluation
• Hazard Risk Analysis
• Hazard Risk Assessment Fundamentals
• Hazard Risk Assessment Calculations
• Hazard Risk Analysis Applications

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