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Incident Investigation and Accident Prevention in the Process & Allied Industries |
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This is a practical book that strikes a balance between the theoretical and applied aspects of incident investigation while also addressing accident prevention. It is directed towards a wide range of readership, from the novice to the more seasoned investigator and experienced personnel. It stresses the need to get at the correct causes and contributory factors since incidents are valuable learning opportunities to prevent recurrence and future accidents.
Nigel Hyatt is a professional engineer with extensive expertise and experience in Hazardous Risk Assessment, Incident Investigation, Hazards |
Analysis and Risk Management and has almost 40 years of industrial experience in design, operations, development, engineering and risk fields in the Petrochemical, Refinery, Offshore Oil & Gas, Chemical, Environmental, Power, Biochemical and Food Industries. He has been involved with a wide range of Incident Investigations involving fires and explosions that also include major incidents.
This detailed work covers an extensive range of different topics, many, if not all of which, may be encountered during an incident investigation. It commences with an introduction section giving guidance on how to use the book as the scope and the needs of investigations can vary widely. A “roadmap” of incident investigation is given as well as referencing specific sections of the book.
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Topics of interest include:
- Responding to occurrence of incidents & emergency response
- Securing the site & handling eyewitness testimonies
- Notification of appropriate authorities, compliance requirements, legal & insurance issues
- Internal/external incident investigation options & investigation team requirements
- Disassembly, gathering, screening, tagging, storing of evidence & post incident testing
- Establishing preliminary causal mechanisms & root cause determinations
- Multiple cause determination, incident modeling, human error evaluation & reporting Remedial & preventative measures & lessons learned, reconstruction & retraining
- Accident prevention through predictive methodologies, pro-active measures
- Pre- and post- incident management
- Corporate structuring, attitudinal problems & planning an accident prevention program
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