Learning from accidents [electronic resource] / Trevor Kletz.
Review of previous edition: "Trevor Kletz's book makes an invaluable contribution to the systematic, professional and scientific approach to accident investigation". The Chemical Engineer Fully revised and updated, the third edition of Learning from Accidents provides more information...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; Boston :
Gulf Professional,
2001.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; Two simple incidents; Protective system failure; Poor procedures and poor management; A gas leak and explosion
- The hazards of insularity; A liquid leak and fire
- The hazards of amateurism; Another tank explosion
- The hazards of optional extras; Flixborough; Seveso; Bhopal; Three Mile Island; Chernobyl; Aberfan; Missing recommendations; Three weeks in a works; Some pipe failures; Piper Alpha; The King's Cross underground railway station fire; Clapham Junction
- Every sort of human error; Herald of Free Enterprise; Some aviation accidents; Invisable hazards; Signals passed at danger; Longford: The hazards of following fashions; The Gresford colliery explosion; Green intention, red result; Looking beyond violations; Keeping an open mind; Secondhand software: The Therac story. Conclusions; Epilogue: Myths on incident investigations
- widely held beliefs that are not wholly true.