Practical Hazops, Trips and Alarms

Do you have trips and safety interlocks in your plant? Are they good enough orare they perhaps overdesigned and much more expensive than necessary? Are youor yo... » 

Do you have trips and safety interlocks in your plant? Are they good enough orare they perhaps overdesigned and much more expensive than necessary? Are youor your company aware of how Hazard Studies should define risk reductionrequirements? Are you actually using Hazard Studies at all?The answer is the integrated approach to safety management. New internationalstandards combined with wellproven hazard study methods can improve safetymanagement in your company.Practical Hazops Trips and Alarms for Engineers and Technicians describes therole of hazard studies in risk management and then proceeds with basictraining in Hazop techniques.A number of practical exercises support the reference information and allow youto test your understanding of the material in the book.This book aims to bridge the discipline gap between hazard studies and theprovision of safetyrelated alarm and trip systems. It provides training inhazard and operability methods Hazops and in the principles of safetyinstrumented systems as defined by international standard IEC 61508.1. Design an integrated safety management system to increase efficiency andreduce costs2. Learn how to carry out hazard and operability studies Hazops and find outhow to convert Hazop outputs into safety requirements specifications3. Implement safety instrumented systems to the new IEC standards IEC61508 «