Process Safety Management and Human Factors: A Practitioner''s Experiential Approach

Addresses human factors in process safety management (PSM) from a reflective learning approach. The book is written by engineers and technical specialists who spent the last 15-20 years of their professional career looking at behavioral-based safety, human factor research, and safety culture development in organizations. It is a fundamental resource for operational, technical and safety managers in high-risk industries who need to focus on personal and occupational safety management to prevent safety accidents.

Real-life examples illustrate how a good, effective understanding of human factors supports PSM and positive impacts on accident occurrence.

- Covers the evolution and background of process safety management

- Shows how to integrate and augment process safety management with operational excellence and health, safety and environment management systems

- Focuses on human factors in process safety management

- Includes many real-life case studies from the collective experience of the book's authors