High Integrity Systems and Safety Management in Hazardous Industries / J. R. Thomson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomson, J. R., 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial safety.

Reliability (Engineering).

System safety.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Elsevier Inc., [2025]

Summary:

High Integrity Systems and Safety Management in Hazardous Industries, Second Edition serves as an overview of best practices as applied to high integrity systems, including their design, maintenance, regulation, and detailed guidance surrounding safety management processes. Across three parts, this book introduces current, key themes for all engineering managers of high-hazard plants, including aging plants, cybersecurity, crisis management, corporate social responsibility, and the significance of local culture to operational safety.This book uses real-world examples and a multidisciplinary approach to safety case management to bridge the disciplinary gap and help readers understand the latest advice and technology underpinning high integrity systems and safety management. It will be an invaluable guide for industry professionals, researchers, and students at graduate level or above working or researching in hazardous industries.- Provides an overview of safety management processes as applied to hazardous industries- Includes best practices in design, operations, maintenance, and regulation- Outlines design standards and processes for high integrity systems- Provides real-world examples and case studies across all areas of high integrity systems in hazardous industries- Introduces key themes for all engineering managers of high-hazard plants, including aging plants, cybersecurity, crisis management, corporate social responsibility, and the significance of local culture to operational safety

Contents:

Front Cover

High Integrity Systems and Safety Management in Hazardous Industries

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

About the author

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

1 Introduction

Hazardous industries, high-integrity systems, and management processes

The structure of this book

Part 1 High integrity safety instrumented systems

2 The design of high integrity instrumentation systems for hazardous plant control and protection

Introduction

The safety life cycle for the development of instrumentation and control systems

Reliability requirements for high-integrity systems

Hardware and software systems design

The "software problem" and software quality management

Issue 1

Issue 2

Functional specifications, traceability, and the V-model

High-integrity software: setting up a software project

Techniques and measures to produce high-integrity software

Instrumentation and control failure analysis techniques

Common-mode failure

Common-mode failure case study: Ariane 5 launch failure, French Guiana, 1996

Common-mode failure case study: Forsmark, Sweden, 2006

Instrumentation and control architecture

I&amp

C architecture case study: the I&amp

C architecture for the European Pressurized Water Reactor

The selection of logic elements and vendors for high-integrity industrial safety systems

Quality management of software suppliers

Case study on smart devices: a smart device within a hidden surprise

The potential for artificial intelligence-based control systems for hazardous process plants

Further reading

3 Cyber security, cyber-attack, and cyber-espionage

Stuxnet

Advanced persistent threats

Industrial control system architecture and cyber-attack

4 The human-machine interface

Introduction.

A note on pitot tubes

Birgenair 301, February 6, 1996

Aeroperu 603, October 2, 1996

A note on high-altitude upsets and angle of attack

Air France 447, June 1, 2009

Synthesis

5 Some case studies of software and microprocessor failures

Qantas flight 72: a serious incident involving smart devices with mixed control and protection

Discussion of Qantas 72 incident

Uljin Nuclear Power Plant, South Korea, 1999

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, Japan, 2001

North Sea pipe handling system fatal accident, 2008

Auto recalls for software faults

The UK Post Office/Fujitsu Horizon software scandal: its relevance to safety-related systems

6 Managing the safety of aging I&amp

C equipment

Introduction: the problem of aging I&amp

Basic knowledge and understanding that must be retained by the plant operators

C life cycle issues

Maintenance management

Maintenance planning

Procurement aspects

Key performance indicators for aging I&amp

Specific aging failure mechanisms

Case study: Buncefield 2005

Part 2 The history of high-integrity technologies - pressure vessels and computers

7 Learning from ignorance: a brief history of pressure vessel integrity and failures

The Sultana disaster, Tennessee, 1865

Boiler explosions and developments in boiler technology during the First Industrial Revolution

The Cockenzie steam drum failure, 1966

Modeling the fracture of pressure vessels

The accuracy and reliability of nondestructive examination

Dounreay, 1981-safety valve testing on a steam drum

The SS Norway boiler explosion, Miami, 2003

Honeywell Geismar reboiler failure, Louisiana, 2023

Further reading.

8 The second industrial revolution-a brief history of computing

Part 3 Safety management

9 Introduction: organization and safety culture

The Swiss cheese model

Royal Air Force Nimrod crash, Afghanistan, September 2, 2006

The meaning of safety in a military environment

10 Management systems to prevent or mitigate accidents

The health, safety, and environmental management system

Personnel recruitment and training

Safe working arrangements

Design engineering and safety functional requirements

Technical safety and technical risk assessments

Engineering changes and safety case changes

Accident and incident investigations

Emergency planning

Nuclear power stations, petrochemical and chemical plants

Offshore oil platforms

Corrective action tracking

11 The human factor

The Port of Ramsgate walkway accident, 1994

Saudia flight 163: human behavior during crisis management

The long landing roll-Khowyter's perspective

Summary and conclusions

Conclusions

12 Hydrocarbon processing

Pipeline rupture and fire, Washington State, United States, June 10, 1999

Equilon Anacortes Refinery Coking Plant accident, November 25, 1998

13 Offshore oil and gas: Piper Alpha and Mumbai High

Piper Alpha accident and the Cullen report

Offshore safety training

Mumbai High, July 2005

Piper Alpha and Mumbai High: common lessons?

14 BP

BP Texas City refinery-prelude to the accident

The accident at BP Texas City

Aberdeen 2007-09

The Macondo-Deepwater Horizon blowout, fire, and oil spill, April to July 2010

The Macondo-Deepwater Horizon accident, April 20, 2010

So what went wrong?

Why did the blowout preventer fail to work?

Aftermath.

Texas City and Macondo-Deepwater Horizon-Can any general conclusions be drawn about BP?

Texas City

Macondo/Deepwater Horizon

15 Chernobyl and Fukushima

Prelude: Tourism behind the Iron Curtain, 1984

Generic technical safety requirements for all nuclear reactors

Stability and predictability of nuclear reactor behavior

Nuclear reactor technology in the Soviet Union

The Chernobyl accident

Aftermath-Radiological and health consequences

Chernobyl: indirect causes of the accident

The Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, March 11, 2011

The accidents at Fukushima Daiichi

Major technical issues

Other Lessons Learned, cultural issues, and consequences for the nuclear industry elsewhere

Radiological and health consequences

Common threads between Chernobyl and Fukushima: National cultural issues and independent nuclear safety regulation

Chernobyl

Fukushima

Others

16 Toxic releases

Introduction: Seveso, Bhopal, Mississauga, Sandoz, and others

Toxic releases at DuPont Belle, West Virginia, January 22-23, 2010

17 Tragedies of the Commons

The Great Stink of 1858

The Great London Smog of 1952

World population in the 21st century

Global warming in the 21st century

18 Conclusions

Some key themes in safety instrumented systems

Some key themes in safety management

Final words

Technical safety assessment and accident case studies

Other books and reports

Regulatory guides and standards

Appendix 1 Experience and judgment

Appendix 2 Roger Boisjoly, the Challenger accident, and whistle-blowing

Appendix 3 Regulatory-political failings and the Boeing 737 MAX accidents

Appendix 4 Techa river contamination 1949-51 and the 1957 "Kyshtym" accident.

Pollution of the Techa river, 1949-51

The 1957 "Kyshtym" accident

Conclusion

Reference

Appendix 5 Compilation of accident data involving ammonium nitrate

Compilation of accident data involving ammonium nitrate

Appendix 6 Safety Integrity Levels in various industries

Safety Integrity Levels for control and protection systems in different industries

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780443339462

0443339465

OCLC:

1511106195