We are writing a book entitled The Process Safety Professional. The purpose of the book is to offer guidance to process safety practitioners. This is not an introductory text. The book is written for those who are already working in the field of process safety.
The current Table of Contents is available here. The complete Chapter 1 (pdf format) are available to our subscribers. Please follow this link.
The following is a description of the goals of the book.
The Process Safety Professional provides guidance to managers, consultants and technical specialists in the energy and process industries. The discipline of process safety management is mature — the formal regulations are now over 30 years old, and much progress has been made. Many process facilities now have effective process safety programs in place. However, in the words of the motto,
There is always news about safety, and some of that news will be bad.
This book describes developments in the process safety discipline and discusses how they can be implemented in an effective and timely manner. The book also looks to the future and provides suggestions as to how the discipline is likely to change in coming years.
The book is organized into the following ten chapters.
The Process Safety Discipline
Process Safety Fundamentals
Regulations and Standards
The Management Elements
Education and Skills
Process Safety Engineering
Industrial Experience
The Process Safety Consultant
The Future
Net Zero
