Incident Investigation and Accident Prevention in the Process and Allied Industries

Nigel Hyatt

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781439822449
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Industrial Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

To prevent future accidents, a complete examination of the causes and contributory factors of an accident is necessary. Stressing the need to correct these issues, Incident Investigation and Accident Prevention in the Process and Allied Industries strikes a balance between the theoretical and applied aspects of accident investigation while also addressing accident prevention.Based on the authors forty years of experience, this detailed work covers an extensive range of topics often encountered during an incident investigation. Since the scope and needs of investigations can widely vary, the author begins with an introduction that provides guidance on how to use the book. He supplies a "roadmap" of incident investigation, making the material accessible to novices yet also valuable to more seasoned investigators.Topics include:

• Responding to occurrence of incidents and emergency response
  
• Securing the site and handling eyewitness testimonies
  
• Notification of appropriate authorities, compliance requirements, and legal and insurance issues
  
• Internal/external incident investigation options and investigation team requirements
  
• Disassembly, gathering, screening, tagging, storing of evidence, and post-incident testing
  
• Establishing preliminary causal mechanisms and root cause determinations
  
• Multiple cause determination, incident modeling, and human error evaluation and reporting
  
• Remedial and preventative measures, lessons learned, and reconstruction and retraining
  
• Accident prevention through predictive methodologies, including pro-active measures
  
• Pre- and post-incident management
  
• Corporate structuring, attitudinal problems, and planning an accident prevention program

Table of contents

• Introduction and Guide
• Chapter 1 Purpose of Incident Investigation
• Chapter 2 Onsite Investigation
• Chapter 3 Evidence Gathering
• Chapter 4 Specific Questions for Evidence Gathering
• Chapter 5 Legal and Insurance Issues
• Chapter 6 Onsite and Off site Investigation Teams
• Chapter 7 Development of Hypotheses for Incidents
• Chapter 8 Time Aspects
• Chapter 9 Determining Preliminary Causal Mechanisms
• Chapter 10 Evidence
• Chapter 11 Post-Incident Testing
• Chapter 12 Knowledge, Experience of Plant Personnel,and Aftereffects
• Chapter 13 Potential for Human Error
• Chapter 14 Multiple Cause Determination
• Chapter 15 Incident Modeling - Quantifying Health andPlant Impacts
• Chapter 16 Common Cause Failures, and Some CommonFailures
• Chapter 17 Getting the Analysis Right
• Chapter 18 Report Documentation and Communication
• Chapter 19 Incident Prevention and Remediation Measures Following an Incident
• Chapter 20 Lessons Learned, Regrouping, Repairing and Reconstruction, Re-training
• Chapter 21 Accident Prevention
• Chapter 22 Accident Prevention
• Chapter 23 Accident Prevention
• Chapter 24 Accident Prevention
• Chapter 25 Accident Prevention
• Appendix A Aspects of Typical Incident Report Documentation
• Appendix B Emergency Response Analysis
• Appendix C Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) & Other Tests
• Appendix D Plant Safety Program
• Appendix E Process Hazards Analysis Methods
• Appendix F Management of Change (MOC)
• Appendix G Photographic Issues
• Appendix H Human Error Assessment and Reduction Technique (HEART)
• Appendix I Explosion Energy
• Appendix J Safety Integrity Level (SIL) & Layer ofProtection Analysis (LOPA)
• Appendix K List of Methodologies Commonly Used inIncident Investigation
• Recommended Reading and Reference Material