Chemical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security

Frank R. Spellman, Revonna M. Bieber

• Publisher: Government Institutes
• Year: 2009
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798892054812
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Infrastructure
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The malicious acts against or within the chemical industrial sector pose a significant threat to both the employees working in the industry, to the communities around them, and to the nation they serve. This new book, the third in a series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, helps chemical manufacturers and processors prevent the devastating effects of such an attack by providing sound security principles and measures that they can implement in their chemical facilities.

Addressing the security threats chemical production managers, chemical import managers, design engineers, and others must be prepared to meet on a daily basis, this book encourages a concerted effort to incorporate security upgrades in existing systems or to plan security in all new chemical processing sites. It addresses issues of monitoring, response, critical infrastructure redundancy, and recovery to minimize risk to the facility, the infrastructure, and the surrounding community.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 01. Introduction
• Chapter 02. Critical Infrastructure
• Chapter 03. The Chemical Industry
• Chapter 04. Chemical Facility Security
• Chapter 05. Vulnerability Assessments
• Chapter 06. Preparation: When Is Enough, Enough?
• Chapter 07. SCADA and the Chemical Industry
• Chapter 08. Emergency Response
• Chapter 09. Security Techniques and Hardware
• Chapter 10. The Paradigm Shift
• Index
• About the Authors