HAZOP: Guide to Best Practice

HAZOP: Guide to Best Practice, 3rd Edition describes and illustrates the HAZOP study method, highlighting a variety of proven uses and approaches. This updated edition brings additional experience with which to assist the reader in delivering optimum safety and efficiency of performance of the HAZOP team. HAZOP is the most widely-used technique in the process industries for the identification of hazards and the planning of safety measures.

This book explains how to implement HAZOP techniques in new facilities and apply it to existing facilities. The content covers many of the possible applications of HAZOP and takes you through all the stages of a study. This simple, easily digestible book is a favorite in the chemical and process industries.

A concise and clear guide to the do's and don'ts in HAZOPNew edition brings additional experience to help you deliver optimum safety and efficiency of performance.Updated material includes a section on HAZOP study of a procedure with a detailed example, new sections on pre-meeting with the client auditing a study, human factors and linking HAZOP study to LOPA. A section on start-up and shutdown has been added to the chapter on specific applications of HAZOP.

1. Introduction 2. Process hazard studies 3. The HAZOP study method 4. The detailed HAZOP study procedure 5. Organizing a HAZOP study 6. Carrying out a study 7. Recording 8. Training 9. Company procedures for HAZOP study 10. HAZOP study of computer-controlled processes 11. Specific applications of HAZOP 12. Factors for a successful HAZOP study