Safety analysis : principles and practice in occupational safety

Title:

Personal Author:

Harms-Ringdahl, Lars

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

Boca Raton, Fla : CRC Press, 2001

ISBN:

9780415236553

Subject Term:

Industrial safety

Risk management

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Safety analysis can be applied as a practical tool in occupational safety. It has three main elements: the identification of hazards, the assessment of risks that arise, and the generation of measures to increase the level of safety. A number of simple methods are described that can be used in industry and the workplace, such as deviation analysis, energy analysis and job safety analysis, which address risks in ordinary workplaces. For special cases, more technically oriented methods are presented, such as fault tree analysis, event tree analysis, and HAZOP. The book describes a number of other methods and compares their features. These methods are set out in a step by step manner and practical advise is given on how to perform an analysis. Cost-benefit considerations and other useful background information, such as types of results which can be obtained, are also given.

Author Notes

Harms-Ringdahl, Lars

Preface	p. ix
1 Accidents and safety	p. 1
1.1 The accident problem	p. 1
1.2 Why analyse?	p. 7
1.3 On terminology	p. 12
2 Features of systems and accidents	p. 17
2.1 Elementary reliability theory	p. 17
2.2 On human error	p. 22
2.3 Systems and accidents	p. 30
3 Safety analysis	p. 35
3.1 What is safety analysis?	p. 35
3.2 Safety analysis procedure	p. 37
3.3 A short methodological overview	p. 40
4 Risk assessment	p. 43
4.1 Introduction	p. 43
4.2 Quantitative assessments	p. 45
4.3 Qualitative assessments	p. 49
4.4 Direct risk assessment	p. 50
4.5 Practical aspects of risk assessment	p. 53
5 Energy Analysis	p. 55
5.1 Principles	p. 55
5.2 Energy Analysis procedure	p. 56
5.3 Example	p. 62
5.4 Comments	p. 66
6 Job Safety Analysis	p. 69
6.1 Principles	p. 69
6.2 Job Safety Analysis procedure	p. 69
6.3 Example	p. 72
6.4 Comments	p. 74
7 Deviation Analysis	p. 77
7.1 Principles	p. 77
7.2 On deviations	p. 79
7.3 Deviation Analysis procedure	p. 86
7.4. Examples	p. 90
7.5 Accident investigation	p. 96
7.6 Comments	p. 103
8 Hazard and operability studies	p. 107
8.1 Principles	p. 107
8.2 HAZOP procedure	p. 109
8.3 Example	p. 111
8.4 Comments	p. 114
9 Fault Tree Analysis	p. 121
9.1 Introduction	p. 121
9.2 Principles and symbols	p. 122
9.3 Fault Tree Analysis procedure	p. 125
9.4 More on Fault Tree Analysis	p. 129
9.5 Example	p. 139
9.6 Comments	p. 146
10 Analysis of safety functions	p. 149
10.1 Introduction	p. 149
10.2 Safety in different sectors	p. 150
10.3 Methods for analysis of barriers and safety	p. 153
10.4 Safety Barrier Diagrams	p. 153
10.5 Concept of safety function	p. 155
10.6 Safety Function Analysis	p. 158
10.7 Example of Safety Function Analysis	p. 163
11 Some further methods	p. 169
11.1 Introduction	p. 169
11.2 Technically oriented methods	p. 169
11.3 Human-oriented methods	p. 174
11.4 Task analysis	p. 178
11.5 Management oriented methods	p. 181
11.6 Accident investigations	p. 188
11.7 Coarse analyses	p. 192
12 Methodological overview	p. 197
12.1 Summary of methods	p. 197
12.2 Comparison between methods	p. 200
12.3 Other methodological aspects	p. 205
12.4 On choice of methods	p. 207
13 Safety analysis--planning and implementation	p. 211
13.1 Strategy and planning	p. 211
13.2 Aims and preparations	p. 214
13.3 Analytical procedure	p. 218
13.4 Information and analysis	p. 223
13.5 Safety measures and decisions	p. 226
13.6 Costs and benefits	p. 228
13.7 Integrated approaches	p. 235
14 Theoretical aspects	p. 237
14.1 Introduction	p. 237
14.2 On models and theories	p. 237
14.3 Quality of safety analyses	p. 241
14.4 Examining analytical procedure	p. 242
14.5 Problems in risk assessment	p. 249
15 Examples of safety analysis	p. 253
15.1 Introduction	p. 253
15.2 Analysis on design of a production system	p. 254
15.3 Purchase of packaging equipment	p. 261
15.4 Automatic materials handling system	p. 264
15.5 Workplace for production of ceramic materials	p. 268
15.6 Accident investigations	p. 270
15.7 Overview analysis of a chemicals plant	p. 274
15.8 Comparison of results from three methods	p. 275
15.9 A quick analysis of a production line	p. 283
16 Concluding remarks	p. 285
17 References	p. 287
18 Index	p. 297

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